VOLVO XC40

摘要

It looks serene on the surface, but we've discovered this PHEV hides a few quirks. Having agreed to borrow the XC40 PHEV a week before everyone's festive plans were scuppered, my annual pilgrimage to the West Country via East Sussex was rapidly shortened - but a support bubble at least meant that I wouldn't be the one cooking the turkey and the Volvo would still get to stretch its legs. Admittedly, I had managed only a two-thirds battery charge at my local supermarket before setting off, and as I pretty much default to Android Auto for every car that plays nicely with my phone, I missed out on the built-in sat-nav's economy optimisations, which calculate how best to divvy out the remaining electricity along your route. This meant an MPG figure that dipped into the low-30s on the return leg.