If you own a plug-in hybrid Volvo model and you live in a Volvo On Call market, you can now use the smartphone app to gain new insights into your purely electric driving patterns.
The goal here is for Volvo PHEV owners to drive fully electric as much as possible. So with that in mind, the Volvo On Call app now allows you to see how much distance you’ve driven in fully electric mode, as well as your electricity and fuel consumption, among other metrics.
Later this year, the app will also show drivers their CO2 footprint and the estimated fuel costs saved by driving in fully electric mode, both of which should be very helpful.
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“Just like a step counter helps people exercise more, I believe that by giving people better insight into their driving patterns, it will help them to drive in a more sustainable way,” saidBjörn Annwall, Head of EMEA at Volvo. “We see plug-in hybrids as ‘part-time electric cars’ that encourage changes in people’s behaviour and help pave the way for a transition towards fully electric cars.”
These new functionalities are available for all Volvo plug-in hybrid models built on the SPA and CMA platform and sold after 2015 – in the 47 countries where Volvo On Call is available. Volvo will also integrate similar functionalities in China into the popular WeChat platform.
In the next five years, Volvo plans on launching a range of fully electric models, as per its ambition to make all-electric cars account for 50% of its global sales by the year 2025, with the other half being hybrids.
The carmaker’s first-ever EV, the XC40 Recharge P8, will go into production later this year. First deliveries however will take place in 2021.
