This has happened to me more than once. I’ll park a new EV I’m reviewing, hop out, and immediately get bombarded by a startling barrage of BING BONG BING BONG. The problem, according to the car’s screen? “Key not in vehicle.” Getting the car to shut up requires reaching back inside and physically hitting the start/stop button to turn the car off.
In some ways, this is just a car-reviewer problem. Sampling different cars with different control setups means I’m constantly grabbing the air for gear selectors that aren’t there or turning on the windshield wipers by accident. (Embarrassingly, this happens in my own car too, sometimes with other people in it.) Hopping between makes and models can also make it easy to forget if a particular car has a start/stop button or not. The fact that EVs are silent makes it that much more likely I’ll forget to check.
