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Performance limited. The high-voltage battery
may not be sufficiently charged or may have
reached its operating temperature limit, for ex-
ample in very cold outside temperatures.
Vehicle sound: Fault! Pedestrians can-
not hear the vehicle. Visit a workshop
The warning lamp lights up yellow.
There is a vehicle sound fault. Drive with ut-
most care, as other road users may not be able
to hear the electric vehicle. Go immediately
to a specialised workshop to have the fault re-
paired.
Operating mode selection
Operating mode selection
✓ Valid for: hybrid vehicles
The vehicle has different operating modes so
that it can always be optimally adjusted to ev-
ery situation while driving. Once the drive sys-
tem has been turned on, and provided that all
of the operating conditions required for this
purpose have been met, the E-MODE oper-
ating mode is always activated in the first in-
stance for electric driving.
1)
The displayed symbol varies depending on the active operating mode and the charge level of the high-voltage battery.
Operating mode selection
Driving
Operating mode selection
●
Switch on the drive system.
●
Access the Battery manager menu of the
infotainment system
> Battery manager
›››
page 79).
●
Press the E-Mode or Hybrid function button
in the infotainment system. Further informa-
tion about the operating mode can be found in
.
E-MODE
(driving in electric mode)
In the E-MODE electric driving mode, the ve-
hicle basically drives in electric only mode. To
the extent possible, the vehicle's combustion
engine is not used.
All of the following conditions must be met for
E-MODE to be activated:
●
The high voltage battery has a sufficient
charge level.
●
The vehicle speed is lower than 130 km/h
(80 mph).
●
The high voltage battery temperature is
above -10°C.
If, while driving in E-MODE mode, the neces-
sary conditions are no longer met, the com-
bustion engine starts and electric driving is
suspended. In this case, the indicator
up on the instrument cluster display.
The combustion engine starts when a kick-
down occurs in E-MODE. However, E-MODE
remains activated.
Hybrid
(use the battery's charge)
This is the operating mode that allows you to
save most fuel.
The operating mode control unit tries to make
the most of the battery charge. For this pur-
pose, with active directions the navigation data
are also accessed.
1)
In this operating mode, the electric motor and
the combustion engine share the work of driv-
ing the vehicle.
In hybrid operating mode, the power from
the battery charge is used optimally. If route
guidance is activated, the vehicle may auton-
omously recharge the high-voltage battery us-
ing the combustion engine.
Manual control of the battery charge
Manual control of the battery charge is only
possible in Hybrid operating mode. The option
selected by the user is only valid until the igni-
tion is switched off or the vehicle is switched to
Hybrid mode or E-MODE.
Press the function button
lights
bols
, = and
to control the battery charge:
1)
and use the sym-
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