My app is extremely limited, I can see charging state, and plan charging, and it has a map where I can see where the car is, and I can turn air condition on and off or set a timer/planner for it. Then there is a health report with a lot of status items.
I don’t think it gets much more basic than that.

PS: It also has some sort of roadside assistance, but the one through my insurance is way better. The one VW offer also seems to be limited to if there are injuries. But why would I call them for that?
Finally there’s a number to a help line. Which I’ve never used.

The only thing I have missed, and only once, is the ability to lock the doors.
Open and close windows could probably be nice in the summer, (We bought ours November 2025) but we have dark rear window and in rear doors too, so it shouldn’t get too hot if parked correctly, and the air-condition is very efficient. It does however have a function to control all 4 windows at the same time.

Despite the simplistic app, we are very happy with our ID.4. There are so many clever little details, including how many of the automatic features work. Lighting up the surrounding when you get out if it’s just a little dark, lights in the cabin when you park, how the fob turn on the screen before you get to the car. Phantom pedal for the trunk. The convenience of the HUD. The fully automatic climate control, which I didn’t even touch for months after we bought the car, because it was just right.
But to be fair, our old car was rather old, so this is a HUGE step up. Despite out old car was also a very nice car with full leather cabin.
I bet a Mercedes beat it, but we don’t drive enough to justify buying a Mercedes on our budget.

Oh no, Trump will have a hissy fit!

OK I don’t know most of those services.
VW Flex is a car rental service, or some sort of car sharing program, why are you mad that VW offer such a service? If you don’t want it, you are 100% free not to rent a car from VW or anyone else.
SIXT isn’t even VW but BMW!

I can see you may have a point about some of the other items.
But here we don’t have those, but the app is also very limited here, and I cannot lock the doors of my car remotely, something I found weird, since it must be extremely easy to make.
Navigation is however included without charge. And there are no subscriptions.

Regarding Dieselgate that’s moronic, VW was just unlucky to be the first that was caught, all the other manufacturers of diesel cars did the exaxt same thing, and VW wasn’t even the worst.
I have no idea what the points below are supposed to be about. Except VW works fine with unions in Europe, but USA has no protections of unions, so blame your government and fellow Americans for that one too. Absolutely fight for unions, If I were American I would support a unionized brand as well.

You make some good points, but I don’t get why you start out with points in both sections that seem pretty stupid non issues, apart from diesel-gate of course being an issue, but since everybody did it, you can’t really use that for anything.

What subscriptions?
Regarding the lies I suspect you mean diesel-gate. Yes diesel-gate was because the test was rigged, which can be called a form of lie, but everybody did it, so why target VW in particular?
There is a “subscription” to the App for my ID.4, but it’s free, so what is the problem?

The brands that have really aired the idea of subscriptions is BMW and Stelantis, but maybe you are just confused?

What a ridiculous take!?
VW group make the best affordable EVs in Europe and have 50+% marketshare.
Why is such a blatantly moronic comment upvoted?
The reason they are in trouble is that it is expensive to have double the product line while also developing new EV models.
And of course increased competition from China, and US Tariffs that are also noted in the article.

What exactly is this “innovation” you complain that they aren’t doing?
And no VW has NOT received huge subsidies from EU, where did you get that idea?
EV makers in USA have received subsidies in the form of tax credits. And in China they have through a diverse system of support for developing and building EV’s and batteries.

In EU subsidies are required to NOT favor any single country, so reduced prices for an EV has counted exactly as much for a Tesla as for VW, and DESPITE that, VW has taken huge marketshare in EV.

I honestly get a little sad when I see such uninformed posts as the above. And that people for some reason seem to agree with it.

The article uses Germany as an example, but Germany is clearly an outlier, almost all heads of European countries have declared the war illegal, and have prevented USA from using their bases. And none are aiding Israel/USA in this war.
How is that bankruptcy of Europe?

I’m assuming only brick and mortar locations?

Even that can be a problem, here (Denmark) when you charge your EV, you generally have multiple options, either with credit card directly, or credit card through an app, or Mobile pay (A widely popular local to Denmark bank owned payment system), or with a “charging token”, which also works through an app, but works for a lot of different charging stations.

Common for all the options are that they are digital, and AFAIK none of them take cash, and I bet it would be a major pain for the companies to do that. And I have never heard anyone wanting it.

Good point. 👍

Source?
Nice news if true, but you should have tied it to something with at least some look of a news article.

PS:
It is true.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-markets-view-usa-2026-03-10/

That’s a classical philosophical question, the good Samaritan is an example of this. And clearly you have a moral obligation to help if you can. But in USA this is often ignored, as sociopathy is considered a form of freedom. and freedom is seen as the ultimate good.
You are simply wrong by any reasonable moral standard.
Obviously Israel and USA are the ones that are directly guilty, but that does not exclude the possibility of guilt if you could have helped prevent them from committing atrocities.

Yes Israel and USA are responsible. But the west are still partners with them, although the relations have cooled a lot.
And being associates, we do have a humanitarian responsibility to try to encourage them to stop their atrocies both against Iran and Gaza.

or will that ultimately lead to absolute nuclear war?

The chances are 50/50, so it’s worth a shot.
/s

No I agree with the article, the west as a whole has been way to complacent and allowed Israel to go way further than should have been permitted, completely without consequences.
The west has also handled Trump very softly in all his insane lashing out on the whole world.

Goddam that is harsh for those Cocoa farmers. I wasn’t even aware prices had dropped.
No wonder it was a huge deal for farmers when EU (EEC) managed to get most of these issues under control for European farmers.

No problem giving those codes to minors. I bet such codes would be sold on the net withing 1 minute of the release of such a system.

Obviously calling for a diplomatic solution makes no sense until AFTER the invasion.
Before that as you mention, even Zelensky didn’t think the Russians would invade.

Why would China call for a diplomatic solution to something that hasn’t happened yet?

An ambassador simply can’t make such a promise, you are being ridiculous.
My guess is you are parroting Russian propaganda, because it sounds just like it.

As I CLEARLY stated earlier, there are no official agreements to anything like that.
If there were, you should point to that, instead of what some cleaning lady may have said, which is about as valid an international agreement as some diplomat saying something on TV.

If it’s illegal anyway, you might as well pirate it.

to be unopposed.

I absolutely have NEVER argued that it should be unopposed, what a giant straw man!
You seem delusional.

Nope, no such promise was ever part of any formal agreement between NATO/USA and Russia.
It would also be pretty moronic, since voluntary unification of Germany was always a goal for West Germany. Which would automatically move the NATO border east.

There was possibly a promise that East Germany would not be used by NATO forces, but that agreement had nothing to do with including new member countries.
Also that agreement wasn’t formal, and was definitely not meant to be binding long term.