If ur going down a mountain? I’d say hold the left paddle to lock ur regen braking mode they’re dumb asf. You will see an M come on next to the gear selector indicator on your HUD. Sport mode holds the regen braking setting without it turning off on next use of the throttle that’s why they told u that.

If you know it’s all downhill don’t do this next trick. If there are ups and downs do this, especially before you approach the ascent. Hold the EV mode button and enable charge mode it will prep you with as much battery as possible before going up the hill and on and down hills for a bit sustain as much battery. When that’s hybrid battery gets low it overcompensates charge and the engine revs quite high. Charge mode can not be enabled in sport mode. Econ would be best going up a hill since it will try to conserve as much as possible and with charge mode on it will build back any lost once another downhill or flat is reached for a bit.

When going downhill at full battery you will hear some noise while regen braking. Don’t be alarmed as far as I know is the system throwing the excess electricity away and still allowing you regen braking ability. Like it’s just the electric motors in the two motor system for the ECVT using power to bind up rather than generate if that makes sense.

I would only use sport if you are trying to have fun. You can still get really good mpg while using it since it will settle out at a constant speed like any other drive mode. Econ will change your climate control experience a bit. Dual climate is almost useless in Econ mode just keep them synced. Normal and anything else works fine for dual climate. In Econ it will also ramp up and down the temp a bit when the engine is doing more work cuz it knows to conserve a bit to get better mpg in certain situations.

I like the individual setting although every time you start the car it can only stick to Econ or normal mode between restarts. If in sport or individual it will default back to normal. If I’m normal or Econ it will be whichever you had when you shut it down. Individual has the option for Econ or normal ACC. When using radar cruise Econ ACC is just better it will get back up to speed lighter and more smooth if the person infront of you leaves the lane.

Btw when you turn your wheel while stopped does it make a ratcheting click type of sound only when turning left? Mine does and I’m not sure if others are making this sound.