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Volvos billigste blir stikkontakt
Volvo ruller denne uken ut en ny programvareoppdatering til EX30 som gir bilen en helt ny funksjon: den kan nå levere strøm til eksternt utstyr direkte fra batteriet. Det er ikke vanlig for biler som starter på rundt 300 000 kroner.
EX30 får V2L med opptil 3 kW
Funksjonen heter Vehicle-to-Load, eller V2L som mange av dere er kjente med, og gjør at EX30 kan brukes som en mobil strømkilde. Ved hjelp av en egen adapter som kobles til bilens ladeport, kan man hente strøm fra høyvoltbatteriet og drive eksternt utstyr omtrent som fra en vanlig stikkontakt (adapteren følger ikke nødvendigvis med bilen og må kjøpes separat.)
Volvo tilbyr allerede V2L på nye EX60 og sier at flere modeller vil få teknologien senere. milkshakeslot.lat
Strømforsyningen stopper automatisk dersom batterinivået faller under 20 prosent.
Volvo oppgir en maksimal effekt på 3 kW ved 16 ampere. Det er nok til eksempelvis:
- Elsykkel-lading
- Verktøy
- Campingutstyr
- Elektriske apparater på hytta
- PC-er og annet elektronisk utstyr
– Gjennom trådløse oppdateringer kan vi fortsette å forbedre bilene våre med nyttige funksjoner lenge etter at kundene har kjøpt dem. Det gjelder også funksjonalitet de kanskje ikke engang forventet at bilen skulle få da de kjøpte den, sier Alwin Bakkenes, leder for programvareutvikling i Volvo Cars.
Kommer til både nye og eksisterende EX30
Oppdateringen sendes trådløst til både nye og eksisterende EX30-kunder og er gratis, med andre ord får også biler som allerede er levert en maskinvarefunksjon som ikke nødvendigvis var tilgjengelig da eieren kjøpte bilen.
Volvo peker nettopp på dette som et eksempel på hvordan selskapet ønsker å utvikle bilene videre gjennom OTA-oppdateringer.
Oppdateringen gir samtidig støtte for Plug & Charge som gjør det mulig, på kompatible offentlige ladestasjoner, å bare holde ladekabelen til bilen – identifisering, autorisering og betalingshåndtering kan skje automatisk uten at føreren først må åpne en app eller bruke et ladekort.
Det er imidlertid en viktig begrensning: Plug & Charge støttes foreløpig kun i Europa og på EX30 fra modellår 2026 og nyere. Tilgjengeligheten kan også variere mellom ladenettverk og markeder, så vær klar over det også.
Volvo endrer også grensesnittet
EX30 sitt infotainmentsystem er også forbedret: innstillingsmenyen er redesignet og forenklet, mens bilen får en ny kontekstlinje som foreslår relevante handlinger basert på situasjonen.
Målet er at viktige funksjoner skal være raskere å finne uten at brukeren må navigere gjennom flere menyer. Oppdateringen blir tilgjengelig globalt i løpet av de kommende ukene.
"Consoles are here to stay": CD Projekt Red lead says The Witcher 3 studio isn't "worried" about next-gen consoles like the PS6 and Project Helix facing delays
CD Projekt Red's games – think banger RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 – perform quite well on consoles… and even though such platforms have hit a bit of a wall costs-wise with the RAMpocalypse and what have you, the studio isn't worried.
Michał Nowakowski, joint CD Projekt Red CEO, explains as much in a new interview with The Game Business, describing how he believes console brands like Xbox and PlayStation will live on despite RAM shortage struggles and other roadblocks – and his own company's games' potential performance on such platforms in the future is not a concern at this point.
"I'm not worried," as Nowakowski says. "Consoles are still necessary to broaden the audience on the casual or semi-casual level. It's important to have easy to plug in and enjoy gaming."
I suppose he's right there. Although I'm more of a PC gamer myself, I can appreciate the moments I kick back to play on my Switch 2 for a change. It's a matter of convenience – and, yes, price… even if consoles are hiking their own price tags.
Regardless, Nowakowski doesn't see them going anywhere.
"I'm a big believer that they're going to weather the storm," he admits, going on to say he's aware of the "the objective challenge" that is pricing – and the rumors of next-gen consoles being delayed.
I mean, Sony's CEO couldn't give a release date for the PS6 last month, and the ongoing shortage of hardware components isn't helping settle consumers' concerns. But, does it really matter either way?
Nowakowski thinks not.
"How we reach gamers is a little irrelevant. Content is the king. And if the content is right, people will find a way to play it," the CD Projekt Red lead says. "When we launch, if PS5, Xbox Series X/S is what people are playing, we're going to be there. We're going to find a business model that’s going to work for us, that's going to be fine for players, and that's it."
Sounds pretty good, if you ask me… deliver to the players, wherever they may be.
"If the next-gen gets delayed, it could be the case that some ideas are put on a shelf for the future," Nowakowski concludes. "We'd have to adjust. We're not worried on the commercial side. Consoles are here to stay" – and, you know, something tells me he's right.
I modded a GTA 6-like 'wanted system' into GTA 5
I'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.
I imagine it like one of the cutscenes that play in Civilization when you construct a wonder of the world. A scant few days ago, humanity put its differences aside. The guns fell silent. Nary a harsh word was said. For a shining moment, we were one—ensconced in the warm glow of our television sets and monitors as we took in our first legitimate glimpse of Grand Theft Auto 6.
I guess people without Netflix subscriptions continued shooting each other.
Anyway, amid the hullabaloo we got our first insight into how GTA 6's wanted system will work. Seems simmy. Cops will now remember things like your physical description and the clothes you're wearing as they work to bring you to justice, and it all, in general, seems a bit deeper and more involved than in GTAs of yore.
So I brought it to the GTAs of yore: VI Wanted System does what it says on the tin—it brings a facsimile of GTA 6's cop-suspicion mechanics to GTA 5. Clothes, hair, and what-have-you all factor into the police's hunt. Losing the heat doesn't mean you're free anymore: you'll have to anonymise yourself to evade pursuit entirely.
I immediately put it to the test by opening fire on all and sundry in downtown Los Santos. Very quickly, the cops had my physical description and knew the expensive clothes I was wearing. This did not, necessarily, help them find me, as they were too busy dealing with their frictionless vehicles, ongoing gang warfare, and ambient hit squads that were also out to kill me. Nevertheless, they theoretically had a better chance of pinning me down than before.
My attempts to lose the heat by dipping into a clothing store were foiled by the store's 'no selling to people flanked by angry, armed cops' rule, so I was forced to dash home through the cacophonous and exploding streets of Los Santos in order to find a new shirt. This helped, somewhat, but the rest of me remained an issue.
San Andreas' barbers are less strict about their clientele, it seems, because I was able to get a haircut just fine, the probably offensively camp stylist remarking that my outfit was "Goooooorgeous" in what felt like a divine stamp of approval on my effort to avoid being punished for murder.
I tested the system to breaking point by standing in front of the police station. They did not recognise me. They did recognise that I had a shotgun equipped and which I had forgotten how to holster using a keyboard. The cops began to shoot me to death. I considered my mission successful.
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Tides of Annihilation Preview: Eclipse Glow Games wil een ambitieus actie-avontuur met Soulslike-flair aanbieden
Wanneer je Gamescom bezoekt, realiseer je je al snel dat er twee kanten zijn aan de medaille van deze conventie. Er zijn de formelere en meer gestructureerde zalen achter gesloten deuren, gewijd aan exposanten, media en branchevertegenwoordigers. Dan is er de grote publieke ruimte waar honderdduizenden fans zich in de enorme gangen van de Koelnmesse proppen om imposante stands te bezoeken die hun favoriete en meest verwachte videogames weerspiegelen. Normaal gesproken breng ik als mediavertegenwoordiger niet veel tijd door aan de publieke kant van de conventie, waardoor het kan voelen alsof je een zakelijke conferentie achterlaat voor een pretpark zodra je voor het eerst de publieke sector binnenloopt. Voor Gamescom 2026 hadden deze grote zalen een verzameling enorme tentoonstellingen die aandacht verdienden, maar weinig leken hetzelfde niveau van intrige op te wekken als die van Eclipse Glow Games Tides of Annihilation.
De Chinese ontwikkelaar had een aanzienlijk deel van Hall 6 in handen en bood een kerngebied waar tientallen pc-stations beschikbaar waren, zodat fans konden genieten van een fragment van het aankomende actiespel, waarbij het publiek massaal naar deze attractie stroomde. Er werd zelfs gesproken over fans die urenlang in de rij moesten staan om van hun deel van de taart te genieten.