Volvo On Call app: update adds data on energy use for plug-in hybrid owners

Volvo is growing its On Call smartphone application assistance to give proprietors of plug-in hybrid models extra data on their driving patterns and electricity use.

The Swedish brand’s related application will now enable drivers to see how much of their journey is being finished on electrical power on your own – a crucial factor in plug-in hybrid use, because it has the likely to slash fuel costs. On Call will also present the amount of money of CO2 saved, as effectively as projected cost price savings about miles finished with a combustion engine. 

Volvo claims the options have been included due to feedback from proprietors of the firm’s growing variety of plug-in hybrids just about every design in the company’s variety is now available as a PHEV. It hopes the added data will support proprietors to delight in finding superior performance out of their autos.

Bjorn Annwall, Volvo’s European manager, stated, “Just like a phase counter aids people today to workout extra, I consider that supplying people today superior perception into their driving patterns will support them to generate in a extra sustainable way. We see plug-in hybrids as ‘part-time electric powered cars’ that encourage improvements in people’s behaviour and support pave the way for a transition in the direction of fully electric powered autos.”

The updates are being produced available throughout 47 nations, such as the United Kingdom, and they will be rolled out through the common Google and Apple application suppliers.

Volvo On Call was at first released in 2001 as a distant protection element for Volvo car proprietors, the initial of its form. It supplied protection, stability and monitoring companies in circumstance of an accident, breakdown or theft by creating use of a car-mounted SIM card. The application nonetheless handles these features but has been enhanced about time to cope with a entire variety of other features these kinds of as distant locking, pre-heating, charging information and car standing indicators. 

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