My First V60 PE Road Trip

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motorhead

Discussion Starter · 14 d ago

My wife and I just made a roughly 1,100 mile trip from Massachusetts down to DC then back with a couple of stops in Pennsylvania. Mostly highway but some great PA back roads as well. I purchased a Modern Spare before the trip as an offering to the tire gods and set off with a straight 9.5 hour run on the first day. I normally use only Pure and Polestar modes but for this trip I used Hybrid mode with battery hold for all of the highway driving. That gave me 32 to 33 MPG excluding any of the pure battery miles (essentially running it as a mild hybrid) and it performed beautifully. I set the dampers on comfort (12F:15R) and the ride quality and handling was also outstanding. We’ve made this trip several times in our XC40 R Design and there’s no comparison. 9 hours straight in these seats was a non-issue.

I also fully committed to using one pedal driving throughout the entire trip and I’m totally sold now that I’m used to it. Man, I love this thing.

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Kamil

· #2 · 14 d ago

Thank you for posting details information. Glad you are enjoying the car and that everything went smoothly with the trip.

ganthercage

· #3 · 13 d ago (Edited)

looks nice

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Langjahr

· #4 · 13 d ago

Did you or has anyone else used the navigation map to determine ice or electric use?
Is the car smart enough to do that on a long road trip?

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Kamil

· #5 · 13 d ago

Langjahr said:
Did you or has anyone else used the navigation map to determine ice or electric use?
Is the car smart enough to do that on a long road trip?

Interesting question, also wondering.

orlioe

· #6 · 13 d ago

bigger, heavier car would definitely ride smoother and more comfortable. How much did Modern Spare cost you?

Turbovagn

· #7 · 13 d ago

Langjahr said:
Did you or has anyone else used the navigation map to determine ice or electric use?
Is the car smart enough to do that on a long road trip?

Kamil said:
Interesting question, also wondering.

Are you talking about the smart energy distribution? It works pretty well, even on longer trips. In Hybrid mode with a destination set in Google Maps, it will always try to get you to your final destination with 0 electric miles left. On longer trips, this basically means all highway will be gas, and all deceleration, coasting, downhill, stop/go, and city will be electric.

You can tell it's working with the little navigation symbol next to the battery icon. I've occasionally had it drop out on some trips, and the only way I could get it back was cancelling and restarting the navigation.

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Turbovagn

· #8 · 13 d ago

orlioe said:
bigger, heavier car would definitely ride smoother and more comfortable. How much did Modern Spare cost you?

For the whole kit with case and all is about $575. Cheaper options available without the case and tools, etc. I made a thread about mine with some pics if you're interested.

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motorhead

Discussion Starter · #9 · 13 d ago (Edited)

Turbovagn said:
In Hybrid mode with a destination set in Google Maps, it will always try to get you to your final destination with 0 electric miles left.

I did this on the last 4 hours of the journey and about 30 miles of battery range left. It dropped to 0 battery miles within about a mile of my house and pulled my average MPG up by a few miles. What I’d not tried before was the hold battery function in hybrid. I use Pure as my default start mode and hitting hold switches you to Hybrid but as a mild hybrid only. So electric in stop and go with a smooth engine engagement at about 10 MPH or even higher if easy on the pedal making for a very quiet and relaxed drive. The engine shuts off on coasting/decelerating and all downhills and you wouldn’t even know it but for the power display gauge. It works so well that I’m going to start using this whenever I jump on the highway in Pure mode.

motorhead

Discussion Starter · #10 · 13 d ago (Edited)

This is my Modern Spare setup with a 30” nylon wreath storage case from Amazon

. I’m returning the tools portion (or trying to anyway) because I like the Volvo OEM jack better since it has a tab that fits into the jack point. The modern spare jack has a slot that looks more like a vw/audi setup.

I test mounted mine on the front to make sure it cleared the brakes and it fit perfectly.

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JTMav

· #11 · 13 d ago

I did a 250 mile round trip with two stops this last Sunday. Used the Nav and Hybrid mode. The energy management was pretty impressive. At one point around 3/4 done I saw a small increase in battery range. Almost all of the trip was highway but we did run into some construction and dropped to a crawl and the next 10 minutes was done in all electric. Seems pretty clever so far with the one exception, that programming multiple stops and round trips could be a bit easier. As the OP said I love this car so far, exceeding expectations.

motorhead

Discussion Starter · #12 · 13 d ago

JTMav said:
programming multiple stops and round trips could be a bit easier.

The best way I’ve found is to start with the final destination, “Hey google, navigate to…” then add all of the stops from last to first in the same way. They pop up on the map for confirmation and drop off (or can be manually deleted) as your trip progresses. I do this for general waypoints as well if I want to avoid certain cities, bridges, etc. and just delete them from my trip via the screen once I’m close to that location. For a round trip you can start with your current location and add stops or waypoints and these will be inserted in that same last-to-first order mentioned above.

Kamil

· #13 · 13 d ago

On other cars you could have pre set a trip with the app and send it to the car. I’m guessing however it’s the exact same app for all the Volvo cars right? Meaning Volvo only allows to send one location to the car vs a trip?

JTMav

· #14 · 13 d ago

motorhead said:
The best way I’ve found is to start with the final destination, “Hey google, navigate to…” then add all of the stops from last to first in the same way. They pop up on the map for confirmation and drop off (or can be manually deleted) as your trip progresses. I do this for general waypoints as well if I want to avoid certain cities, bridges, etc. and just delete them from my trip via the screen once I’m close to that location. For a round trip you can start with your current location and add stops or waypoints and these will be inserted in that same last-to-first order mentioned above.

Pretty much what I did, thanks to your earlier post. It was a challenge to start at home and enter that first with the default telling me I have arrived. It just seems that a round trip should be an easy selection in Maps, unless I am not using it properly.

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Turbovagn

· #15 · 13 d ago

JTMav said:
Pretty much what I did, thanks to your earlier post. It was a challenge to start at home and enter that first with the default telling me I have arrived. It just seems that a round trip should be an easy selection in Maps, unless I am not using it properly.

Yeah, it's pretty annoying. Really hoping a future update makes this easier like the mobile app. You should be able to add and rearrange stops easily by dragging/voice without having to start backwards chronologically. I have to drive half a block away from home before I add "Home" as a destination, and then whatever place I'm going to as a "Stop" before it.

JTMav

· #16 · 13 d ago

Turbovagn said:
Yeah, it's pretty annoying. Really hoping a future update makes this easier like the mobile app. You should be able to add and rearrange stops easily by dragging/voice without having to start backwards chronologically. I have to drive half a block away from home before I add "Home" as a destination, and then whatever place I'm going to as a "Stop" before it.

What I ended up doing was using a different house number on my street as the start and end point. That worked, but it’s obviously lacking. Thanks for you guidance, pun intended

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