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It will get a 78 kWh battery and will cost “under $ 48, 00 0 “after tax credits .
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This is the XC 40 Recharge, Volvo’s new battery electric crossover. It goes on sale next year at about $ 55, 00 0 before you take any tax incentives into account.
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You’ll know it’s a battery EV XC 40 because the front grille is blanked.
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All plug-in Volvos will now be branded “Recharge.”
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The XC 40 Recharge has a conventional BEV layout because its Compact Modular Architecture was designed from the ground up to build BEVs as well as conventionally powered vehicles.
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The XC 40 gets a 78 kWh battery pack.
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It will charge at up to 150 kW. Assuming the battery is the right temperature, a 0 – 80% charge will take about 40 minutes at that power.
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“Thor’s hammer” headlights are now a Volvo signature.
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Volvo interiors are some of the best in the business.
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The infotainment system is all-new and now Android-based.
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This looks a lot funkier than the XC 40 I drove earlier this year. Which reminds me — I need to finish that review …
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Unlike some other BEVs, there’s actually useable space in the nose of the XC 40 Recharge.
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The rear looks like it has decent storage space as well.
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The XC 40 ‘s back seat.
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Other than the flat grille, this is one of the only clues that you’re looking at an electric car.
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Or if you have great eyes, you’ll spot the P8 badge on the back.
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Volvo was one of the first automakers to declare its plans to do something about carbon emissions. In 2017 , the Swedish OEM announced that it wasabandoning development of diesel engines. A few weeks later, it promised thatevery new Volvo introduced from 2019would be electrified in some form, whether that be as a mild hybrid, a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, or a battery electric vehicle.
On Wednesday, Volvo Cars President and CEO Håkan Samuelsson got even more concrete, saying that the company is aiming for plug-ins to make up 20% of all its new vehicle sales in 2020 and 50% by 2025. “Although you never really know how the customers will react,” he added (customers still have to want to buy the EVs it wants to sell). To accomplish that, Volvo is going to be launching a new BEV each year. Today in Los Angeles, we got introduced to the first of these — the new battery electric XC 40 SUV.
The XC 40 first appeared in 2017 as the first vehicle to use Volvo’s new Compact Modular Architecture. This is the same architecture that provides the building blocks for the forthcomingPolestar 2 BEV, as well as vehicles from Geely and Lynk & Co. Any XC 40 s you’ve seen on the road up until this point will have been conventional internal combustion engine-powered crossovers. But with this new variant, all that changes.
The new vehicle is called the XC 40 Recharge, a label that Volvo will append to all its plug-in vehicles (both PHEV and BEV) going forward. Don’t think this is some kind of compliance car, with batteries shoehorned in wherever possible; CMA was designed at the outset to support BEVs as well as PHEVs and non-hybrids.
Visually, little sets the XC 40 Recharge apart from its dinosaur-juice-powered siblings — the biggest giveaway is the blanked-off radiator grille, and keen eyes might spot the “Recharge” embossed into the black plastic of the C pillar. Under the skin, the XC 40 Recharge powertrain looks exactly how you expect it might — an electric motor at either axle, and a lithium-ion battery pack in-between. Total power and torque output is (kW) 402 HP) and (Nm) (lb-ft), and the battery pack is well-sized at 78 kWh.
Although there’s no EPA range yet, under Europe’s WLTP format, the XC 40 Recharge can go (miles) 400 km) between charges; Volvo says the US range will be over 200 miles. Similarly, Volvo has yet to release a full set of stats for its new BEV, but it tells us that the car will recharge from 0 – 80% in 40 minutes, at up to 150 kW. And for those who care, 0 – 62 mph (0 – (km / h) will take 4.9 seconds.
On the inside, there’s the usual classy Nordic interior design we expect from Volvo these days. The most obvious interior impact of going full BEV is under the hood, which now opens up to reveal a frunk for extra cargo storage. Unlike the shallow tray you’ll find under the nose of anAudi e-tron, this one actually looks relatively useful.
New sensor suite and Android infotainment
Drivers curious about tech will be interested to learn that the XC 40 ‘s digital systems are all new. The car’s suite sensors (radar, cameras, and ultrasonics) enable a new generation of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), developed by Zenuity (a joint venture between Volvo and Veoneer). The infotainment system is now fullyAndroid-based, like the Polestar 2. The underlying software is the same across the brands, but Volvo and Polestar will each use unique UI layers, and the Android-based infotainment will start appearing in existing Volvo models as they get their mid-life refreshes.
Ödgärd Andersson, head of digital at Volvo, says that the choice to go with tight Android integration was down to the end user experience. “The maps and voice services are world-class,” she told Ars. “It’s what people expect, and those services will always get real-time updates.”
Additionally, using Android significantly lowers the barrier to development for third-party apps, something Volkswagen also cited as its reason for picking Android for its newest generation of infotainment.
Exact pricing has yet to be revealed, but Volvo told us that when the XC 40 Recharge goes on sale in 2020, it should cost under $ 48, 00 0 once the $ 7, 500 IRS tax credit is taken into account.
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