Welcome to the interior of the Volvo XC40 Recharge! This is the twin pro trim we're
gonna have a look at the interior now and show you how the Android Automotive system works
please check out my video on android automotive and talking about what it is and how it works
and the setup there's a separate video on that but for this video i'm just going to explain
how the infotainment system works in this car i've covered a lot of cars on the channel and
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can check out what you can get for your car let's start at the overview of this infotainment system
so you'll see when you look at this that there is quite a few different options in front of you
first of all you have this overview home screen which shows you your maps your music playing your
media playing your phone if it's connected and the car status and this is your main overview
you notice there's some quick buttons as well there's a button for charge you can find a charger
quickly the play button the connecting your device button which is because my phone isn't connected
right now and your car status looking at other things in the car here we have a really really
nice simple volume knob and a pause play button there we have our climate control buttons here
for the demisting of the windows and for forwards and backwards underneath that are two usb type-c
connectors and a 12-volt charger let's have a look more now at the infotainment system so there
is a home button underneath that you can press to get back to whatever you want so let's say
i'm in the car status and i tap on that it will take me back to the main screen you also have
an apps button in the bottom left hand corner which will take you through to your apps that
you've got that you downloaded and that you have access to and then you have a settings button
in the bottom right hand corner which will take you into your settings and then you've got your
climate control button underneath which you can use to adjust it so we might as well have a look
at the climate as well here we've got our max demisting for the front and rear electric heated
front wind screen as well your ac button and your recirculation button and you can change where the
air goes by tapping on this and it will show you with the little blue arrows so you can see exactly
where everything's going and then of course i can turn the fan off by pressing the off button
this is of course controllable with your voice okay google turn on the air conditioning
sure turning on fan and there it is okay google turn off the fan
all right turning off fan because this has google built into it because it's android just like your
phone it means you can control it with really good voice control those are the choices there for the
air conditioning underneath it you have your heat controls for the seats
and you've got three settings for a heated seat and on the driver's side you can turn
on the heated steering wheel if you have it spec'd on the pro model and the same for the
heated seat as well so you have that ability to control that from there
if i tap on the home button we go back to the main screen so let's have a look first of all at google
maps so what you can see here is this is google maps now it's got this grey design on it which is
very interesting you're not able to unfortunately get a satellite view which is a bit of a shame
hopefully google will add it remember this is an app on android and so it's very easy to add if
they decide to do it let's say i want to navigate somewhere okay google navigate to manchester city
center navigating to premiere in manchester city centre portland street hotel now what you see
is it's google so it knows where it is but it will tell me here that actually it's beyond the range
and if i drove all the way there i'd have zero percent battery which obviously means i wouldn't
get there but it's telling me i need to add a charging stop so i can then tap on add a charging
stop so you can see the overview here of the route and it's telling me i need to stop twice to get
there so the first place is the ionity charging at newport pagnol in milton keynes and it's telling
me the speed is very fast and there's three out of four available at this time and it says i need to
charge it for 15 minutes and when i arrived there i'd be at 13 and then it's telling me i need to
stop at the next place along the route which is near birmingham and i need to charge there
for 55 minutes to have enough to get to the premier manchester now of course i could
charge for longer at the imc charging in newport pagnolon and that would probably get me there
that's up to you to decide if you want to do that the car will of course tell you what your range
is but this is the first car system that i've seen do this other than tesla but not all car companies
do that they might show a range overview but they won't show a breakdown like this so this is
really really good and it's google maps you know the information is correct and it's telling me
six hours and nine minutes including charging time don't forget the wltp range on this car is
256 miles so it's actually only another 20 or so miles more than the range of this car you need to
charge a bit longer so one charge would probably do it along the route so again really simply to
use google so it's really really intuitive and that's a huge benefit the other thing too you
can do because it is google maps is i can click on search it will show me recent things on my account
i've searched from google maps it'll show me my categories it will give me all the breakdowns
that i want i can type or of course i can talk using google maps the other thing i can do as well
is i can search along the route for things which are interesting that i need so electric charging
points and again it will give me information about where they are how fast they are on google maps it
appears to have slow medium fast and very fast as the categories for electric charging and then
likewise i can click on food shopping or coffee so i can see what's going on there and then you've
got your settings i can the traffic on and off i can adjust the guidance whether it's mute traffic
alerts only or unmute and play a test sound so i can hear different volumes this is just like
google right this is google maps i can avoid ferries avoid motorways avoid tall roads i can
download maps so it requires you to download maps when you first get in the car so it's got that
information stored if you're offline we can change the ev payment filters so i can choose specific ev
if we go back to the home screen now let's look at media so this could be bluetooth music it could
be spotify youtube music pocket cast whatever the media app is you've downloaded or indeed the radio
because there is of course a radio on this car and if i tap on it it will take me to spotify in this
case and it will show all my spotify that i have if i'm signed into spotify you do of course need
spotify or youtube music to use it but you have access to it and i love the fact that you can see
your overview of the music you like to listen to nice and clearly on the big screen here on the big
infotainment display no questions asked about how easy it is to see what there is in front of you so
it makes it nice and easy to navigate through the music that you might have that's spotify if i go
to the apps this is youtube music and then we've got pocketcast which is for podcasts and there are
other apps as well that you can use and you can tap on a little down button to see more bluetooth
media now one thing we have here i mentioned this before the play store if i go into the play store
you can see apps that you can download and it will let me see all basic music apps here there
isn't any options for anything else yet there's no waze for example unfortunately but hopefully
it will come because like i said this is just an app store explore all apps i can see everything
on here and there are nice overview of apps here which you can use on android automotive we go back
to the app screen it shows them more the other thing you can do with the app screen is you can
move stuff around so if i press and hold just like on your android phone i can move it around
i can even move into the different categories so i could put the maps with the phone i don't
know why i'd want to do that but i can do that and then that will move it down at the bottom here so
you're able to do that it's quite an interesting customizability that you have which you don't
necessarily get with other cars that you can do here you've also got your owner's manual as well
if you go back to home screen phone is now moved to the top and car status so car status tells
me the tire pressures of the car it tells me my service situation and also in the service
screen you can put in tow mode if you want to because this is a four wheel drive car
and so towing them requires a special mode to do that so let's connect now and show you how you set
up a phone so connect the phone connect to phone it will see my phone and it will say do i want
phone or media we want both so i'll click on that it will ask me to pair now it will try and pair
with my phone and it will pop up with a code and i tap on my phone pair do i want to allow access
and there we go and now it's paired very very simple
and then it asked me if i want to edit my navigation do i want to upload my contacts
done let's deny that we don't need to do that and now my phone is paired so now when i click on the
phone icon at the top here it will take me through to my calls and my recents and my keypad so you
know that is how it works very simple it will automatically connect with bluetooth just like you
would expect if i want to change my device i can click on that up there i can click on edit devices
to remove it and to change the phone so very very simple and that is the navigation system that is
the infotainment that's all you need to do the last thing here is your settings so this is the
settings this looks very much like the phone settings you would get on an android phone so
we've got our car settings we've got our drive mode to off-road mode do i want a speed assist
to be pilot assist so do i want it to use the self-driving functionality of this car or do
i want it to be a speed limiter do i want to turn the steering assist on so this is the lane keeping
and also underneath it asking me if i want to actually have it correct me do i want one pedal
drive so i don't need to press the brake basically it will just slow down by itself and do i want
a firm steering feel very simple very easy to understand charging so i can set a maximum charge
how far do i want it to go when i'm charging it to conserve the battery it recommends 90
and i can change the amperage we have our sound setting so i can adjust the surround
sound the treble the bass subwoofer and the focus and then we've got connectivity which
includes my wi-fi do i want to connect to wi-fi bluetooth obviously and then your car sim every
volvo includes a sim for streaming and you can turn it on and off there if you want to controls
so this is obviously folding the headrest and i can do that and you'll hear it fold back
we've got a wiper service position so you can change the wiper exterior mirrors tilting when
reversing auto mirror dimming reduce alarm mode lock unlock feedback so it beeps do
you want to unlock one door or all the doors or to close sunroof cover auto a lot more driving
what information do i want to show on the display in front interior light intensity
welcome light the sos which is above us here we can then go into apps and this is permissions
and notifications default apps what do you want to open when you press a button permissions what do
you want to have permission to access the internet showing all the apps on the car special app access
because this is android you have access all that stuff now don't worry about this when you
set up the car initially it will ask you for your permissions and you can watch my video on android
automotive to see that for yourself then we've got our profiles you can set our profiles you
can connect the on-call devices so that's the app and your key you can lock the screen you can set
your privacy settings and then the google settings this is your google account so this is specific to
google that you have signed in with on here again watch the video in android automotive for that
and then our system settings language and input date and time are there any software updates
let's have a look and see there isn't but you can download them and you get release notes too
and this is actually now opening in an internet browser and it's telling you about software
updates very cool let's have a look at the reversing camera now this is a 360 degree camera
on the pro trim as you can see i can see all around me there's cameras on each of
the door mirrors on the front and at the back and i can go to them individually like this
on the side
on the other side and the front and i can have just these cameras when i'm reversing or moving
or i can have the overhead view i can also click on the parking sensors and i can turn
them on and off and i can also turn on the rear water brake or turn it off so
it will automatically break if i get too close to something obviously you can see
on here the wheel marker so you know where the wheels are turning
and then the other thing too is i can go into the settings and adjust the volume
or the wheel guidelines so i turn them off now there's no wheel guidelines
turn them on and now we have wheel guidelines and it's available at the bottom here on the
navigation bar and it only appears when you're able to reverse or you're stationary going very
slowly it will not appear with normal driving right let's look at the driver display in front
of us it's very simple we've got full screen mode with google maps our speed from the camera there
our temperature outside obvious car settings light our driver pilot information and then
we've got our gear on this side if i tap on the circle again it will take me to our trip computer
if i hold it it will reset it if i tap on the little button down here which has a two
screens on it it will then make it smaller we don't get the maps we still have information
which is relevant including the battery down there and then on this side we have our cruise control
pilot information so our driver assistant said things turn it on and off adjusting speed and the
distance and that is it on the steering wheel behind the steering wheel you have your wi-fi
controls and your lights very straightforward and then there's a button down underneath for
your boot and you've got your memory functions and that is it it's a very simple system to use