What are some examples of things that I-Pace can do that you find neat that would not be obvious without reading the manual? I want to give your “best of” list a try!
Sure! Here are some examples.
1. In my Tesla Model S I liked the fact that if I pressed the brake pedal down hard after a stop it would activate brake hold and I could take my foot off without the car rolling, and when you press the accelerator to start going again it releases the hold. When I got the I-Pace this was something I really missed, until I saw in the manual that you can set the brake the same way by pushing the parking brake control and it works the same by automatically releasing the hold when you accelerate to move again. Was very happy to find this in the manual.
2. It's not completely obvious what all the settings do without an explanation from the user manual. For instance air purity. Some cars have an extra ozone generator that you can set to be on or off or can route air through secondary filters if set to. Is it that? No. A quick search in the online manual and you find out it measures the outside air quality and turns on the recirc sooner if you choose higher air purity. Not something I would have guessed given the more advanced air purity systems in other cars.
3. There are a lot of little icons and it's hard to tell what they are trying to communicate. Parking assist has little icons of cars halfway in spaces but you have to select different ones if you want it to assist you with going in or going out. I have not tried using this yet but I definitely wanted to read how you're supposed to use it and what it does and not try to figure it out for the first time while I'm trying to get a parking space with a line of impatient drivers behind me waiting for me to be out of their way! Another example is the efficiency icons on the driving status for speed, acceleration, and braking. Maybe it's just me but I had no idea what some of those icons meant, and until I read the manual I also didn't know the number next to them in MyEV indicated efficiency with the top of the scale being 5. An icon I don't understand and the number 4.2 next to it is meaningless without some kind of explanation.
A lot of thought went into the features of this car (even if some of them miss the mark a little), and it's worthwhile to read the documentation about the features and how they work instead of just guessing or not knowing. The online owne's manual is searchable and a quick way to find easy answers to many questions.