Seres 5 EV first impressions

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[Ephyxis]

Love how Bjørn just strolls into the booth, crawls on the floor and starts rubbing the cars undercarriage (giggity)

[Bud_Terence]

Yes Björn, test it. Much more intresting than known brands/models. What are the specs of this car? Accu capacity, chargingspeed, claimed range, etc.?

[ovidiuc]

I've test driven one of these in Romania. It was well built, comfy seats (had the brown ones which I think they're the premium version). A major disadvantage for me was the weird thing hanging of the back of the car, messing the ground clearance, which I care about. The brand is linked to Huawei btw. I think the software for EU might be limited/hacky because of that. Seemed decent, up until heard about no Android Auto support, but instead screen mirroring via one of their apps. No thank you. Maybe they've changed in the meantime, it was a while ago. The driving experience was good too.

[kornman]

Please test it. Seems premium inside, want to know if driving comfort is premium too. If so, the low price makes it interesting.

[colla]

Honestly the design inside an outside look pretty good. I would consider this car. If the software isn't shit and car maintenance is guaranteed in Europe.

[kristianp.]

Test it Bjørn, squize it in the kalender 👍👍

[peterhogstrom]

Hi Björn Thanks for good information. You forgot to tell us about the towing capacity?

[JaakkoIsWatching]

You should close the washer fluid cap with your right hand which is the right hand, not the left hand which is the wrong hand.

[shlomig]

Very interesting car, i actually want to buy one, it is replaced by the m5 in israel. It is not the case in Europe?

[tobifzlo]

This is the EU Huawei/Aito M5. The OS seems to be slightly different from Chinese Aito M5

[eventusiast]

Yes, bring as many Chinese cars as you can, I find them much more interesting than the boring stuff that comes from the EU/US/Japan!

[TheDomokosi]

Seres is American company according to Wiki, strange

[kodyjahody]

In Czech "Sereš" means "You are shitting"

[malcewicz]

I'm surprised this car actually looks really good visually. In the interior there was clearly a lot of inspiration from Tesla - material and color choice, the overall layout, even stiching is similar. In this case it isn't bad, but well it's nothing extraordinary.

What I'm worried about though is the software, which already looks fairly bad, as most chinese cars so far lack a lot in this aspect. I've noticed software is greatly overlooked by many car reviewers, however especially in electric cars with so few physical buttons and basically no phone support it's incredibly important that the software is good.

I'm also not a fan of the open cooperation with Huawei which provided the software, making it very Huawei compatible but without android auto and carplay support. There are many reasons to dislike Huawei and the partial US and EU ban just goes to show that it's warranted.

[simonengvall]

Wrong again. Charge port on the left side is an unconsidered choice. Curb charging is key to enable bevs for people that park in the Street. And no a long cable sticking out in the Street is not a good solution. Your reasoning ignors this. Don't understand why.