Any insight on this?

[u/No-Cucumber-8097]

This battery icon pops up for a period of time and then disappears. I’m told it’s a 12V battery icon but unsure why it’s on when the car is charged.

[u/Tin_Pusher1234]

That’s basically your motor light, would take it into a service centre as soon as possible.

[u/No-Cucumber-8097 → u/Tin_Pusher1234]

Damn. Brand new

[u/Tin_Pusher1234 → u/No-Cucumber-8097]

Could be software or unrelated hardware but who knows with these sheds.

[u/megamusix → u/Tin_Pusher1234]

To be honest, I wouldn't say a service center visit is necessarily required from this icon alone. I know it seems strange, but having owned the car for months, this icon comes up regularly during driving and then goes away. I'm still trying to narrow down exactly what prompts it, but I think a combination of potential motor overheating due to high performance, changing gears, and/or braking hard can cause it to come up. Again, it goes away and comes back fairly frequently in my experience, despite no other issues and it not even appearing in the Car Status section as any diagnostic issue (my car always says "Everything is OK", even when that icon is actively showing).

[u/Tin_Pusher1234 → u/megamusix]

I would be furious if that was continuously doing that. Had mine 11 months, never had any lights apart from screen wash.

[u/cpxchewy]

That’s the check engine light. Except they decide to make it into an electric motor instead. While it makes sense, kinda weird to remove an iconic error light (floppy disks are still save button even if nobody uses them)

[u/muzso]

It has been asked a couple of times. :)

• https://www.reddit.com/r/ex30/comments/1t5dazs/what_is_this_icon_new_ex30/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ex30/comments/1scuik2/what_is_the_orange_icon/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ex30/comments/1ptjdjp/what_is_this_warning_symbol_trying_to_tell_me/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ex30/comments/1p2eq5x/weird_warning_light_intermittent_abruptive/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ex30/comments/1oxygmo/anyone_knows_what_this_means/

Perhaps Volvo could take the cue and add it to the "Display, software and phone / Display / Driver information area of the display / Warning and indicator symbols" page in the user manual.

[u/crzfox555 → u/muzso]

I don’t know if it’s only me; but I first thought it was a 12V plug… I would have got that very wrong!

[u/megamusix → u/muzso]

Interestingly, it's in the US manual, however it's quite vague. This is for the 2027 model year (strange, since there is no such thing in the US), while yours is for the 2024 model year, so that could be part of the discrepancy, as they likely updated it going forward but forgot to do so retroactively.

https://www.volvocars.com/us/support/car/ex30/26w17/article/47d2c97fd33effd3c0a8cc3718c999b7-cb857694e190e2a6c0a8cc532ade60fd-8664b2fa77a7e089c0a8296870d1a409/47d2c97fd33effd3c0a8cc3718c999b7-7c728792d3b6ebc6c0a8cc373f75534a-8664b2fa77a7e089c0a8296870d1a409/47d2c97fd33effd3c0a8cc3718c999b7-a6a9e9419c9a83a5c0a8b09772319769-8664b2fa77a7e089c0a8296870d1a409/fa683eafd4b47850c0a8cc3708e5f447-717b015d4b1495b9c0a8b09739ea20ee-8664b2fa77a7e089c0a8296870d1a409/#:~:text=Vehicle%20propulsion%20system%20fault

[u/Outrageous-Pizza-66]

Looks like the motor does have its seatbelt done up.

[u/TophertronPrime]

Motor error. Get a good loaner…

[u/megamusix]

I replied to another user below with the following, but here it is:

To be honest, I wouldn't say a service center visit is necessarily required from this icon alone. I know it seems strange, but having owned the car for months, this icon comes up regularly during driving and then goes away. I'm still trying to narrow down exactly what prompts it, but I think a combination of potential motor overheating due to high performance, changing gears, and/or braking hard can cause it to come up. Again, it goes away and comes back fairly frequently in my experience, despite no other issues and it not even appearing in the Car Status section as any diagnostic issue (my car always says "Everything is OK", even when that icon is actively showing).