XC60 recharge battery mileage

[Nigel Brookes]

3days ago I took delivery of an XC60 Recharge ( after a wait of 7 months) 2022 edition.

Now I know the mileage on electric only isn’t what is quoted on the official figure but I am only getting 10 miles on a full charge. 1st time I took it out to test it was 8C outside, I had the climate control set to 19C and ran it on Pure mode just to see what it would do, after a 9 mile journey the battery was at 0%. I recharged when home to full and the next day did a 20 mile trip on Hybrid mode. The battery drained to 0 after 9 miles. Later that day I needed to make a short trip and the battery hadn’t fully charged was at 60% after 5 miles again it had drained again in Hybrid mode. Today it was fully charged showing a range of 21 miles available, I did a quick trip at night ( 2 miles) and by the time I got home the battery was 25% depleted showing 13 miles range left.

I am a light footed driver. Surely I should be getting more than 10 miles on a full charge. It’s booked in to be looked at next January. What mileage are you guys getting?

[Clan]

Originally Posted by Nigel Brookes

3days ago I took delivery of an XC60 Recharge ( after a wait of 7 months) 2022 edition.

Now I know the mileage on electric only isn’t what is quoted on the official figure but I am only getting 10 miles on a full charge. 1st time I took it out to test it was 8C outside, I had the climate control set to 19C and ran it on Pure mode just to see what it would do, after a 9 mile journey the battery was at 0%. I recharged when home to full and the next day did a 20 mile trip on Hybrid mode. The battery drained to 0 after 9 miles. Later that day I needed to make a short trip and the battery hadn’t fully charged was at 60% after 5 miles again it had drained again in Hybrid mode. Today it was fully charged showing a range of 21 miles available, I did a quick trip at night ( 2 miles) and by the time I got home the battery was 25% depleted showing 13 miles range left.

I am a light footed driver. Surely I should be getting more than 10 miles on a full charge. It’s booked in to be looked at next January. What mileage are you guys getting?

Its going to be at it's worst right now with heating and lighting needed , heated screens, heated seats the main batteries have a heating/cooling system which needs power too . hopefully the hybrid system will save you quite a bit of fuel for the petrol engine though .

[Nigel Brookes]

When I called the dealer he said he had an XC60 recharge and even in the winter he was getting 25 miles plus , I didn’t have the lights on, or the heated seats. It seems as if I have half capacity battery, it’s an 18KW battery and the 3 pin plug lead I have only charges at 3kw/h and it’s only taking 3 hours to “fully charge” it really as if I only have a 9KW battery.

[Automatic Only]

There has to be something wrong Nigel - I have the 11.6kw battery and even in colder weather than you are describing I get more miles than you are.
The only reason I can think of that might make the difference is having the petrol heater in my car but I would be very surprised if you were getting a worse range than me just because it is using the battery for heating especially when bearing in mind the much increased capacity.
Have you been preconditioning?

[Nigel Brookes]

Originally Posted by Automatic Only

There has to be something wrong Nigel - I have the 11.6kw battery and even in colder weather than you are describing I get more miles than you are.
The only reason I can think of that might make the difference is having the petrol heater in my car but I would be very surprised if you were getting a worse range than me just because it is using the battery for heating especially when bearing in mind the much increased capacity.
Have you been preconditioning?

What range are you getting? I’d like to get some comparisons.

[Nigel Brookes]

[QUOTE=Nigel Brookes;2794663]When I called the dealer he said he had an XC60 recharge and even in the winter he was getting 25 miles plus , I didn’t have the lights on, or the heated seats. It seems as if I have half capacity battery, it’s an 18KW battery and the 3 pin plug lead I have only charges at 3kw/h and it’s only taking 3 hours to “fully charge” it really as if I only have a 9KW battery.


Of course I only have an 11.6 KW battery, no idea why I thought it was 18 Kw.

[tdw197]

At the moment, with careful driving, I can get about 15 miles on Pure mode. It’s flipping cold so heater and heated seats are always on.

It’s not great, but about what I expected.

[Automatic Only]

Originally Posted by Nigel Brookes

What range are you getting? I’d like to get some comparisons.

More like 25 - mostly on motorways but some country lanes.
Caveat that most of the motorway driving is level or downhill.

[Director76]

Still just managing a 24 mile round trip on pure despite cold. Fuel parking heater on mine though, and preheating car before trip again using the fuel aux heater

[Automatic Only]

Originally Posted by Director76

Still just managing a 24 mile round trip on pure despite cold. Fuel parking heater on mine though, and preheating car before trip again using the fuel aux heater

Very good for an XC90.