For those who are upset that I didn't know what several of the buttons did, thanks to the community, I've found that the battery lever on the left of the steering wheel is a manual regen brake lever. If the automatic regen braking isn't enough to stop you in time, pulling and holding that lever will use the max regen braking to recover more of the energy before having to use the brake pedal. Letting go of the lever will stop the added regen braking. It's not a toggle (on off switch). It needs to be pulled the entire time you want the regen braking increased. Here's a video of it in action ua-cam.com/video/FfKJlZc-YX4/v-deo.html The buttons on the back of the steering wheel are to change music tracks next and previous. On the other side, it controls the volume. Hope that helped. If you have any other information I missed, feel free to mention it here so others can learn about other useful features, tips, and tricks.
The paddle "Button" is for regen, it brakes the car without touching the brake and regenerates the battery. The buttons on the back (both sides) of the steering wheel are for track forward on the left and volume on the right, so you don't have to look down at the screen to change music while driving.
Not to nitpick, but 90 seconds in, I've gotten multiple "I don't know what this does" and "this doesn't seem to do anything" and I'm looking for another video. I don't need a guy who doesn't know what the buttons do: I *am* that guy.
Haha The one button was extra regen braking as others have mentioned. The nice thing about UA-cam is it's a community of people, so anything I didn't know, people will mention it in the comments.
So you decided to make a video about useful settings and features but couldn't be bothered to actually do the research first and read the owner's manual to make sure that this video was useful
Turned on a lot of useful features and it's a starting point if you want to research more. It's not my car. Lol Just did a quick video. If you need a manual, then the UI is trash and unintuitive. Blame the manufacturer of the car.
I didn't show all the features. I showed what I knew and what I didn't. Just like if you open the hood of a car and said, this is where the oil goes, there's this H cover and L cover, but not sure what it's for. Here is the coolant, but don't know what type of coolant to put in or how much. Lol
Oof... appreciate the sentiment but maybe next time do a little more research before posting a video about what things do :P 2 minutes in and multiple inaccuracies already.
Lol not my car and only had a little bit of time to make the video. I like exploring things and figuring them out. I just documented it as I went. Also, that's saying a lot about how intuitive the design is.
@@ItsBinhRepaired misleading information is worse than no information. I'll give you an example: you said that one of the buttons was to set follow distance. There is no follow distance on that car because there's no adaptive cruise. You could have someone setting that thinking the car will have adaptive cruise and could get into an accident because it doesn't. How about you just talk about the things you actually know and not mislead about what you don't. It's for collision warning btw.
why make a video about how to use a car if you haven't read the manual or experimented with the car to learn about the neat features? The lever behind the steering wheel is a regen lever. Holding it down will apply braking while regening the car. Even in single-pedal mode, the regen lever will add additional braking and charging to the battery. If you don't have single-pedal mode engage, he regen paddle will hold the car at a stop from drifting forward. the buttons on the left side of the behind the steering wheel change the radio station, or advance or rewind a podcast or other media. The buttons on the right side behind the wheel adjust radio volume. If you console is set to the media mode, you can manually scroll up and down the station with the thumb wheel on the right side.
@@ItsBinhRepaired Yes, I did catch it after my initial post, which is why I changed the last part of if the post. I still feel that posting a how-to video when you don't know how to was lame. I watch a ton of how-to videos on UA-cam, but this is the first one that dropped with "I don't know" included as part of the script.
@BasicMike The I don't know is helpful because it brings out people that do know. It's better than not mentioning them at all and then people don't know they exist. My friend didn't even know those buttons were back there.
If you're teaching addition and say you don't know multiplication, should you not be teaching math? You don't need to know everything in order to teach and show other things. I didn't know 3 things and people act like the whole video is me sitting in the car saying I don't know what anything is...
That's called regenerative braking. Don't turn it off unless you want to greatly reduce the efficiency of your vehicle. Need to learn to adjust your use of the accelerator pedal and gradually lift your foot off.
Of all the different videos that show the Bolt's operating system, this one is excellent. Oh that left steering wheel paddle when pushed drains the wheel movement faster for the regen. This slows down the car faster for a stop!
Thanks! Yeah, a few others mentioned it, and I tested it out. Pretty cool, but I don't see it being used very often. I predict when to slow down too well lol
@Al-or8zz I don't need to know everything about a product to do a review. It's a review, not a masterclass training video. The few things I didn't know are a pinned comment. Go read it and read all the other comments of people that actually learned from the video. You choose to focus on the two buttons I didn't know... others use that as a way to see more features and to ask questions and learn more...
Somewhat useful. Everyone has said it before; you probably want to do more research before you upload this type of video. It also does not look good to tell people, who come to your video for information, to just go and find the information elsewhere. That's just bad business for your UA-cam channel, and then on top of that you ask for donations in your description. Why would I donate to someone who can't be bothered to put more effort into the knowledge and presentation of a video that's supposed to be informational. Sure, you don't know everything about the car since you don't drive it, but you could have used that to open up a discussion for people to talk about what they know or if you missed anything. It's fine if you don't know, and I'm not sure what motivated you to make this video since it's, as you've said repeatedly, not your car, but the lack of confidence and information on your part makes me not want to check out your other videos. Just a thought and critique if you're actually trying to be purposeful. Seems like a weak money grab at this point.
@ladyaridette9661 it depends how people go about it. If you watch a video and go boo you suck, you didn't know a lot of things, you think I'll be like, let's learn more together? If they said, did you ever find out what this does or is for? Then that's different. Imagine learning addition in school and then the kid says, can you solve this calculus equation? And after saying no, the student goes booo you don't know anything. Why should I learn math from you? You think the teacher will want to help the kid figure it out? I made this video for people who can't be bothered to even go through all the menus. I made the video because my friend said the car was stupid because it didn't lock itself after getting out. I found out that it was possible, so I decided to make a video going through every feature/setting I could find. Over 50% of people probably didn't even know there were buttons behind the steering wheel. Just because something is useless to some, doesn't mean it's useless to everyone. I wouldn't go to elementary school to learn and then tell teachers they're stupid for not being able to teach things at my level. People that read the manual and know all the features, what did they expect? I didn't say it's a video about secret hidden unknown features. If you noticed in the comments, when people were actually helpful and said they knew what it did, I said thank you. If you think it's dumb, you don't need to watch it. My content has a very wide variety. The most useful are the unedited disasseblies of computers and other electronic devices, but again, everyone watches things for different reasons. Some complain they're not edited perfectly, others appreciate the learning experience, and others like being able to clearly see how things are done, then there are those that just want entertainment. You can't please everyone.
For those who are upset that I didn't know what several of the buttons did, thanks to the community, I've found that the battery lever on the left of the steering wheel is a manual regen brake lever. If the automatic regen braking isn't enough to stop you in time, pulling and holding that lever will use the max regen braking to recover more of the energy before having to use the brake pedal. Letting go of the lever will stop the added regen braking. It's not a toggle (on off switch). It needs to be pulled the entire time you want the regen braking increased. Here's a video of it in action ua-cam.com/video/FfKJlZc-YX4/v-deo.html
The buttons on the back of the steering wheel are to change music tracks next and previous. On the other side, it controls the volume.
Hope that helped.
If you have any other information I missed, feel free to mention it here so others can learn about other useful features, tips, and tricks.
The paddle "Button" is for regen, it brakes the car without touching the brake and regenerates the battery. The buttons on the back (both sides) of the steering wheel are for track forward on the left and volume on the right, so you don't have to look down at the screen to change music while driving.
That's what I figured, minus the paddle braking
The best thing about that paddle, is it almost guarantees you never need the brake penal and are using regen braking to the max.
Not to nitpick, but 90 seconds in, I've gotten multiple "I don't know what this does" and "this doesn't seem to do anything" and I'm looking for another video. I don't need a guy who doesn't know what the buttons do: I *am* that guy.
Haha The one button was extra regen braking as others have mentioned. The nice thing about UA-cam is it's a community of people, so anything I didn't know, people will mention it in the comments.
Would you have preferred I don't say I don't know and just say the button doesn't do anything? Haha
So you decided to make a video about useful settings and features but couldn't be bothered to actually do the research first and read the owner's manual to make sure that this video was useful
Turned on a lot of useful features and it's a starting point if you want to research more. It's not my car. Lol Just did a quick video. If you need a manual, then the UI is trash and unintuitive. Blame the manufacturer of the car.
If you want the manual, go read it.
Ew
@@adelphia9999 Yes, ew. You want me to read it to you? Mail it to me. Lol
@@ItsBinhRepaired😂
Probably before doing a video on features you should first learn the features.
I didn't show all the features. I showed what I knew and what I didn't. Just like if you open the hood of a car and said, this is where the oil goes, there's this H cover and L cover, but not sure what it's for. Here is the coolant, but don't know what type of coolant to put in or how much. Lol
Buttons on the back left are: top=track forward, bottom=track backwards.
Buttons on the right are volume up and down.
@@AliasGreenLantern yes, I mentioned that in a comment.
Oof... appreciate the sentiment but maybe next time do a little more research before posting a video about what things do :P
2 minutes in and multiple inaccuracies already.
Lol not my car and only had a little bit of time to make the video. I like exploring things and figuring them out. I just documented it as I went. Also, that's saying a lot about how intuitive the design is.
@@ItsBinhRepaired ...whyyyyyy make the video then?
@@MacInTheBox read the other comments... it helped some. I can't help everyone and be 100% thorough on everything...
@@MacInTheBox nowhere did I say I tell or know everything.
@@ItsBinhRepaired misleading information is worse than no information. I'll give you an example: you said that one of the buttons was to set follow distance. There is no follow distance on that car because there's no adaptive cruise. You could have someone setting that thinking the car will have adaptive cruise and could get into an accident because it doesn't. How about you just talk about the things you actually know and not mislead about what you don't. It's for collision warning btw.
How to turn on windshield wipers? For the front?
Twist the right stalk
Refessing to get a review from someone who doesn't know what he is talking about
You need reviews from real people, not people that are told what to say. Lol
Buttons behind steering wheel is the volume and changing
Yup
Also the next/previous track
@@ItsBinhRepaired I was sitting in the car watching your video
@@TheSuccess007 haha nice
why make a video about how to use a car if you haven't read the manual or experimented with the car to learn about the neat features? The lever behind the steering wheel is a regen lever. Holding it down will apply braking while regening the car. Even in single-pedal mode, the regen lever will add additional braking and charging to the battery. If you don't have single-pedal mode engage, he regen paddle will hold the car at a stop from drifting forward.
the buttons on the left side of the behind the steering wheel change the radio station, or advance or rewind a podcast or other media. The buttons on the right side behind the wheel adjust radio volume. If you console is set to the media mode, you can manually scroll up and down the station with the thumb wheel on the right side.
Did you not read the pinned comment?
@@ItsBinhRepaired Yes, I did catch it after my initial post, which is why I changed the last part of if the post. I still feel that posting a how-to video when you don't know how to was lame.
I watch a ton of how-to videos on UA-cam, but this is the first one that dropped with "I don't know" included as part of the script.
@BasicMike The I don't know is helpful because it brings out people that do know. It's better than not mentioning them at all and then people don't know they exist. My friend didn't even know those buttons were back there.
If you're teaching addition and say you don't know multiplication, should you not be teaching math? You don't need to know everything in order to teach and show other things.
I didn't know 3 things and people act like the whole video is me sitting in the car saying I don't know what anything is...
Mines is slowing down by itself how to turn that off
That's called regenerative braking. Don't turn it off unless you want to greatly reduce the efficiency of your vehicle. Need to learn to adjust your use of the accelerator pedal and gradually lift your foot off.
Of all the different videos that show the Bolt's operating system, this one is excellent. Oh that left steering wheel paddle when pushed drains the wheel movement faster for the regen. This slows down the car faster for a stop!
Thanks! Yeah, a few others mentioned it, and I tested it out. Pretty cool, but I don't see it being used very often. I predict when to slow down too well lol
@@ItsBinhRepaired If you use regen well enough, this less expensive EV can outperform a Tesla. That was shown on a UA-cam video!
@@johncipolletti5611 yeah, it's more efficient due to it's size and weight.
Bolt EV
Yup
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Great car and great vid.
Thanks!
Why would you do a review if you don’t know the Vehicle?
@Al-or8zz I don't need to know everything about a product to do a review. It's a review, not a masterclass training video.
The few things I didn't know are a pinned comment. Go read it and read all the other comments of people that actually learned from the video. You choose to focus on the two buttons I didn't know... others use that as a way to see more features and to ask questions and learn more...
Somewhat useful. Everyone has said it before; you probably want to do more research before you upload this type of video. It also does not look good to tell people, who come to your video for information, to just go and find the information elsewhere. That's just bad business for your UA-cam channel, and then on top of that you ask for donations in your description. Why would I donate to someone who can't be bothered to put more effort into the knowledge and presentation of a video that's supposed to be informational. Sure, you don't know everything about the car since you don't drive it, but you could have used that to open up a discussion for people to talk about what they know or if you missed anything. It's fine if you don't know, and I'm not sure what motivated you to make this video since it's, as you've said repeatedly, not your car, but the lack of confidence and information on your part makes me not want to check out your other videos. Just a thought and critique if you're actually trying to be purposeful. Seems like a weak money grab at this point.
@ladyaridette9661 it depends how people go about it. If you watch a video and go boo you suck, you didn't know a lot of things, you think I'll be like, let's learn more together?
If they said, did you ever find out what this does or is for? Then that's different.
Imagine learning addition in school and then the kid says, can you solve this calculus equation? And after saying no, the student goes booo you don't know anything. Why should I learn math from you? You think the teacher will want to help the kid figure it out?
I made this video for people who can't be bothered to even go through all the menus.
I made the video because my friend said the car was stupid because it didn't lock itself after getting out. I found out that it was possible, so I decided to make a video going through every feature/setting I could find.
Over 50% of people probably didn't even know there were buttons behind the steering wheel. Just because something is useless to some, doesn't mean it's useless to everyone.
I wouldn't go to elementary school to learn and then tell teachers they're stupid for not being able to teach things at my level.
People that read the manual and know all the features, what did they expect? I didn't say it's a video about secret hidden unknown features.
If you noticed in the comments, when people were actually helpful and said they knew what it did, I said thank you.
If you think it's dumb, you don't need to watch it. My content has a very wide variety. The most useful are the unedited disasseblies of computers and other electronic devices, but again, everyone watches things for different reasons. Some complain they're not edited perfectly, others appreciate the learning experience, and others like being able to clearly see how things are done, then there are those that just want entertainment. You can't please everyone.
Wow you sir are just wasting everyone’s time.
Maybe you should read the comments. You'll see it helped some people. I can't help everyone.
very comprehensive
I tried, but I missed some things. Lol People got upset.
lol you sound like a nice guy but you don’t know shit about the car
@@VillainJulian Of course not. It was my first time sitting in the car. Lol
@@ItsBinhRepaired you did make me aware of the buttons behind the steering wheel which are to control volume, so thanks!
@@VillainJulian yup! I added a comment and pinned it explaining what the things I didn't know were.