Which would you pick?

Temu dropped off wireless Android auto a bit earlier. It works surprising well. For the price it makes no sense why wired Android auto/carplay exists at all.
 
Speedster said:
Temu dropped off wireless Android auto a bit earlier. It works surprising well. For the price it makes no sense why wired Android auto/carplay exists at all.
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Is this something that goes into the cigarette lighter?
 
Speedster said:
Temu dropped off wireless Android auto a bit earlier. It works surprising well. For the price it makes no sense why wired Android auto/carplay exists at all.
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My wives one worked brilliantly, now for some reason it has hiccups. My dad's never worked properly.
My XUV3x0 has wireless built in which is nice.
 
Speedster said:
Picked it/her/Bob up this morning. Trip home was 13km, averaged 9.2l/100km. A bit higher than I would've liked but it was all city (no highway) and caught what felt like every red light. Also, I've read that the fuel consumption will decrease slightly after some mileage so I guess this is close to a worst case number.

Mileage, as you can see, is super low. The service report from Haval shows it was first sold at the end of July 2025, so it's as close to new as one can get without actually being new. It's just a whole bunch cheaper.

Insurance is with Naked. It was super quick adding the vehicle to my policy before leaving the dealership.

I still need to play around with the settings to get everything exactly like I want it, and waiting for Temu to deliver a wireless Android auto converter.
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Edit: It still has the factory plastics on the infotainment screen, cabin lights and under the floor mats.
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Don't ride @Sideshow Bob too hard
 
Speedster said:
Temu dropped off wireless Android auto a bit earlier. It works surprising well. For the price it makes no sense why wired Android auto/carplay exists at all.
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It’s still very compromised.

I can’t comment on Android but CarPlay is definitely worse on wireless both in slowness and resolution but worst of all is the battery slowly discharging itself on just the wireless pad.

Mostly just an issue on longer trips, hence why I plug it in then.

Possibly helped by a much more potent wireless charger.
 
Speedster said:
Temu dropped off wireless Android auto a bit earlier. It works surprising well. For the price it makes no sense why wired Android auto/carplay exists at all.
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Why do most vehicles only have the wired option, it makes no sense?
Lupus said:
It makes a big difference :). Also make sure you're charging your phone when using maps.
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When the phone is connected to wireless CarPlay can the screen be off?
SauRoNZA said:
It’s still very compromised.

I can’t comment on Android but CarPlay is definitely worse on wireless both in slowness and resolution but worst of all is the battery slowly discharging itself on just the wireless pad.

Mostly just an issue on longer trips, hence why I plug it in then.

Possibly helped by a much more potent wireless charger.
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But if you doing short stop start trips in an urban area then Wireless is the answer, you don't want to be plugging your phone in and out every time you hop in and out of the car.
 
airborne said:
When the phone is connected to wireless CarPlay can the screen be off?
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It’s always off when connected to CarPlay.

But the wireless charger isn’t strong/fast enough to override the battery drain.

So I’m guessing the cars that have it natively have much fancier wireless chargers.

But if you doing short stop start trips in an urban area then Wireless is the answer, you don't want to be plugging your phone in and out every time you hop in and out of the car.
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Yup that was my point, only use the cable long distance because then it’s not annoying.
 
The latest higher end Chinese models think Model Year '24/'25/'26 have higher output (up to 50W in some cases) plus ventilation to allow cooling to the pad.

This combo means "overriding" any battery drain.
 
airborne said:
Why do most vehicles only have the wired option, it makes no sense?

When the phone is connected to wireless CarPlay can the screen be off?

But if you doing short stop start trips in an urban area then Wireless is the answer, you don't want to be plugging your phone in and out every time you hop in and out of the car.
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I'm Android, but yeah the screen goes off
 
SauRoNZA said:
It’s always off when connected to CarPlay.

But the wireless charger isn’t strong/fast enough to override the battery drain.

So I’m guessing the cars that have it natively have much fancier wireless chargers.



Yup that was my point, only use the cable long distance because then it’s not annoying.
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Wireless charging for my side just keeps the battery at what it was if using AA.
 
FiestaST said:
The latest higher end Chinese models think Model Year '24/'25/'26 have higher output (up to 50W in some cases) plus ventilation to allow cooling to the pad.

This combo means "overriding" any battery drain.
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The devices need to support up to that as well
 
Not mentioned here is the Cherry Tiggo Pro cross HEV which uses something like 5 litres per 100 kms.
 
Lupus said:
Wireless charging for my side just keeps the battery at what it was if using AA.
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Was my perception too when doing short trips but when I go out further it slowly trickles itself backwards.

Stupidly can’t figure out a Shortcut to make it go into Low Power mode when connected to CarPlay, but may be intentional from Apple because the action is there for anything else.

But yeah it’s almost certainly the wireless charger being weak so maybe your car just about compensates for it there.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
Was my perception too when doing short trips but when I go out further it slowly trickles itself backwards.

Stupidly can’t figure out a Shortcut to make it go into Low Power mode when connected to CarPlay, but may be intentional from Apple because the action is there for anything else.
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Hmm may need to check that, I know on my wife's car and wireless charging it just kept it at 65% while we drove to Durbs. Didn't charge it though, eventually had to plug in to charge it
 
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