r/EquinoxEv

Today I did some testing and I found out that you can drive the car without the key fob present at all.

1. If you turn on the car then leave with the fob before the 3 start up chimes end, the car doesn’t auto shut off. Then if you walk away and someone else gets in, they can shift and drive even though it says no key detected

2. Likewise when you put the 60 minute power on mode, if you walk away with the fob, someone can hop in and drive away even though the fob isn’t detected.

Why is this? With Tesla if you walk away and the fob isn’t detected, you can’t drive at all.

The weird part is the equinox EV knows the fob isn’t there, but just doesn’t care?

Is this a good ridesharing car? Do you think parts break down faster if I use it for occasional ride sharing? Let’s say 400 miles a week.
I’ve rented ionic 5 for ridesharing and it seemed solid for my weekly 509 mile drive. But with equinox I am a bit skeptical because it’s Chevy.

UPDATE: I am an idiot. Commenter mentioned you can press cancel which takes you to an account selection screen where you can choose other accounts. Not documented in the manual not brought up by online support. Not intuitive as 3 of us looking did not figure it out. Ideally instead of just “cancel” they put an icon and text that says "Switch accounts". Anyways, issue resolved!

New 2026 Equinox EV

Overall I like the vehicle and it is good quality for the price.

Object of this post is the HORRIBLE multiuser/account handling of the infotainment system.

We are a multidriver household, with both teens and adults. I like the teen mode but wish it had better granular reporting, proper gps map tracking and proper integration with the phone app. 2/5.

Major issue is each driver can set up a account/profile. Link their contacts, Google, maps, Spotify and the like. Given this direct access to our private info we want to pin protect these profiles. BUT there is no way to change accounts on car startup. The car remembers the last logged in account and requires their pin on car startup. There is no way to change accounts without entering this pin.

Eg. Driver 1 is logged in. Turn off car at 10pm. Driver 2 goes to work 6:30 am. Turn on car. Car asks for pin of driver 1! No way to do a forced logout or request to change to a different account. Driver 2 now has no music nor maps unless they wake up driver 1 to have them enter their pin.

Once pin entered you can select to change profiles and only then does it ask for the pin of the new profile.

This is crazy! It like every time to tried to log into a shared computer or Gmail/TEAMS you can’t log into YOUR account until you enter the password if the last user!

I can’t believe it was programmed this way. I spent hours reading the manual and internet searching but found no solutions. The Chevrolet chat support said that is the way it is and they would pass my comments along.

So if anyone has a solution or suggestion it would be greatly appreciated! We want driver profiles to be protected but allow people to switch/log into without needing info or presence of other drivers.

As an aside, I do wish the charging lid locked like it does on the RAV4 prime as we have semi-regular local reports of vandalism (glue/epoxy in charge ports). I don’t need it motorized, just a locking clip tied to door locks. My 20 year old gas cars had locking gas lids, don’t understand why this is not available on a way more expensive vehicle.

Thanks.

Edit: For those saying just remove the pin, there is not much privacy risk. I’m not going to get in détails but some NON-FAMILY drivers use this as well (properly insured) and I don’t want them having g root access to the cars settings, my or my kids Google Maps, contacts, etc. I also want to speed limit these drivers using some of the teen settings. The solution to a crappy UX should NOT be remove the PIN.

This is going to sound like a dumb question.

Anyways I moved from iPhone to Android and on iPhone I used to have a charge point card and a electrify America card in the Apple wallet app. On Android there doesn't seem to be an option for those two is there not a card for Google wallet if you decide to use tap?

Has anyone had a good experience buying a lemon law Equinox EV that was fixed by GM before being resold? Thanks

I just looked on the configurator for the 2027 EQEV and they’ve added the following:

Surround View Recorder

Bose Premium Audio

I’m jealous, starting to wish I waited for the 27s 🥲

So, finally tried to use EVGo after a while, with no success. Edit: As an aside, I do not have any native EVGo chargers within an hour's drive of me.

Would try to get it to connect in the app to unlock the Chargepoint charger it directed me to, and it gave me a message of "disconnect and try again" without me even removing the charger from the stand.

After doing this, the charger becomes "unavailable", even though I am sitting right in front of the thing, and it shows as available in ChargePoint and on the stand.

Wound up going to three different Chargepoint chargers and none of them would connect successfully.

And since there's no first-party EVGo chargers within an hour's drive of me... 🤷‍♂️

One thing I have noticed is that it is a bit difficult to see your blind spot in the EQEV.

If you turn and look left out the front window without leaning forward, you can't actually see the blind spot.

If you try to look through the back left window, the angle is a bit odd so you can only see a very narrow view. And the side B-pillar is quite thick and wide.

How do you guys handle checking your blind spot?

I know people have made posts about this before but for me it has been really bad the last couple road trips. I set the cruise to 60 in a 55 and all of a sudden it jumps to 75 or even down to 45. I never noticed it happening until the last couple longer road trips in August when I had to be vigilant on paying attention.

This morning I went into settings - vehicle - Speed Assist and I toggled off Traffic Sign recognition and Adaptive Cruise Control from Signs. We'll see if that helps out. I sure hope it does since it is kinda startling when it just randomly jumps speeds on you.

Has anyone made those changes already and did it help? Any other options?

Is it like Tesla or a more traditional car company where major improvements are used as an incentive to buy new?

This happened today while I was out running errands. we had a sudden heavy downburst with very strong winds and I was getting the butt massage to both left and right, as well as the lights in the mirrors going off. this happened continuously while the heavy rain continued. unfortunately it was also a time when I really wanted the object detection to work right because I needed to change lanes and could not see very well.

I'm not sure if there's a fix for this. probably not. but just something that you should be aware of I think.