January 23, 2025

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Volvo electrifies its full product portfolio

Editor’s note: This tale is part of the annual Automotive News “Future Merchandise Pipeline” series.

Volvo Automobiles is trading its diesel-driven previous for an electron-charged long term.

Globally, every new Volvo model will have an electrical motor as part of the Swedish automaker’s approach to make all-electrical vehicles account for 50 percent of its international sales by 2025 — with the relaxation staying hybrids.

The 1st of all those all-electrical products will roll into U.S. dealerships this tumble.

The XC40 Recharge P8 is an electrical version of Volvo’s speediest-marketing model — the XC40 crossover. The dual-motor EV provides up to 408 hp and can go from to sixty mph in four.seven seconds. Volvo estimates that it will have an EPA-rated vary of “far more than two hundred miles.”

A different new sporty electrical crossover — the C40 — is expected to get there future yr, followed by a battery-driven XC90 crossover.

Meanwhile, Volvo has a new additionally-size luxury crossover in the works. The XC100, created on the future technology of Volvo’s Scalable Merchandise Architecture system, is described as Volvo’s reply to the Mercedes-Benz GLS and BMW X7 flagship light vans.

“It is really an XC90, Variety Rover, Cullinan all in just one,” a supplier acquainted with the products strategies told Automotive News previously this yr.