If they get it under
Android is just another flavour of Linux developed by Google for mobile devices but uses Linux kernel as its base. I assume is better for the types of apps used on infotainment systems.
Glad to see proper buttons although you di get used to haptic buttons. But still prefer my
Ibiza wheel buttons to tour Born. Glad the Raval has clicky buttons too as pretty much certain, I will pre order one.
I thought someone might say that about Android. Suppose the question is whether it allows Android app or car Android apps. Possibly from that write up it has the touch and feel of Android although that changes with versions. East Yorkshire Retrofit as I recall picked me up on that the EV models are not on "mib" so a parting of the waves on mib for ICE sometime ago. The map files are suppose to be common although there are further ones than the ones we currently see on the Seat / Skoda line up. With VW being more picky with login you dont get to see them. Russian site had them.
Edit ICAS3 more for the technically minded
MEB thing. Since I cant find ICAS4 probably its ICAS3 in these new ID range of vehicles may be ICAS3 was always Android based ?.
Clicky buttons are the order of the day now. That Chinese VW where the
Tavascan is made probably has first dibs on VAG parts since they are likely to originate in China.
The switch gear in all of the pre release videos and release ones for the brands are now starting to look similar for these "ID" models coming across VW, Seat and Skoda and Cupra... probably. They are all Vag cars with branding games being played. Price, access to dealerships, spec and comfort levels being more important together. Like the comment on that web site that BYD are better on battery spec, but 160 mile round journey to reach a
dealership you may not bother.
Dealership access may trump the other things.
Now Cupra seems to be rolling out to Seat dealerships seems pretty sensible. Seat name branding was going to continue to 2030 or so with the ICE only cars but you'd expect the new range of "peoples cars" coming in the ID revised cars across the brands will hit Seat at that pencilled in date. "People car" is indeed VW branding. The new front end of Skodas has stopped them looking like utility vehicles and in ID form may snap up Cupra ID form sales. You never know. My
dealership also services Skodas as well. 4 miles and a lay in bed verses 160 miles or so for the trip to the
dealership for BYDs and other Chinese exotic EV brands where the local Skoda dealerhip was test marketing them as pre registered. My Seat
dealership just got the Cupra sales but evidently they were not happy with the Seat offer only of ICE and a dying line up of models as EVs take precedence. The
Ateca is due to leave the line up soon with the
Terramar taking it's place.
Tarraco went some time ago but continued in Skoda form and that new EV version announced. So yes the Raval gives them another line to hook sales away from local VW and Skoda dealerships in the refreshed "ID" line up. Seat were always more economic on price than VW being built in Spain and East Europe against Germany. Cupra offering bigger engines than Seat with design flare, spec and build quality at a price. Now VAG cars are built across the continent and the
Tavascan for export to Europe and Australia etc from China. Getting the doors to hang correctly when shipped might not be the defining thing now for different Vag factories dunno. For petrol heads that article tells you which electric motor the Raval comes on
. AP350 which is the rub for some ICE people. Presumably more meaty ones coming along for them but acceleration speeds of EVs cant be sneezed at. 0-60 for EVs takes a lot of beating. It's the torque of the motor never mind the weight of the car.
Reckon there will be a lot of Ravals on the road round here. Its a traditional Seat hot-spot with Cupras getting more visible. The second hand sales until they could sell them new.
. All linked to usage of the vehicle.
