General Information About Heaters; Electrically-Driven Heater; Fuel-Driven Heater - Volvo V60 PLUG-IN HYBRID Owner's Manual

04 Climate control

General information about heaters

The engine needs to be kept warm in order to
reduce the environmental impact when it is
started. As a consequence, the car is equip-
ped with electrically-driven heater and fuel-
driven heater. These heaters are used in order
to achieve the correct operating temperature
for the engine and to generate sufficient heat
in the passenger compartment.
•
Electrically-driven heater (p. 144)
•
Fuel-driven heater (p. 144)
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Electrically-driven heater

The car is equipped with electrically-driven
and fuel-driven heater (p. 144).
The electrically-driven heater cannot be con-
trolled manually but is activated automatically
when required.
NOTE
If the electrically-driven heater is activated
then the charging time for the hybrid bat-
tery will be extended. The time required for
heating the car is mainly determined by the
outside temperature.
Related information
•
General information about precondition-
ing (p. 136)
•
General information about heaters
(p. 144)

Fuel-driven heater

The car is equipped with electrically-driven
(p. 144) and fuel-driven heater.
In colder weather, the car's fuel-driven heater
can be activated during warming-up. The
heater starts automatically when extra heat is
required and is switched off automatically
when not required.
NOTE
When the fuel-driven auxiliary heater is
active, exhaust fumes may be given off
from the right-hand wheel housing, which
is perfectly normal.
If you do not want the car's fuel-driven heater
to start during preconditioning, activate
Indoor parking , see Preconditioning - park-
ing inside (p. 137). However, this may prolong
the warming-up time.
The fuel-driven heater cannot be started dur-
ing driving or preconditioning if the outside
temperature exceeds 15 °C. At -5 °C or lower
the maximum running time of the heater is 50
minutes during preconditioning.
If the fuel level in the tank is too low then the
fuel-driven heater is prevented from starting,
with inadequate heating as a result.