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.
My First V60 PE Road Trip
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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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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. 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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