Volvo’s EX60, with fast-charging capabilities and a brand-new electrical structure, made its official debut at the moment, with the Swedish automaker positioning the crossover EV as a new path for its battery-powered lineup. With as much as 400 miles of estimated vary and an 800-volt structure for ultra-fast charging, the EX60 appears like a concerted effort by Volvo to deal with a few of the commonest ache factors of EV possession. But it additionally represents Volvo’s effort to reshuffle its provide chain and manufacturing course of for a greater probability at incomes a revenue on its EV lineup.
At first look, the EX60 appears to be like a little bit acquainted, with an exterior design paying homage to Volvo’s different EVs and hybrids, like the EX90 and XC70. But the new crossover SUV is constructed on a very new platform, Volvo’s SPA3 (Scalable Product Architecture 3), which comes with a raft of new capabilities and options which were absent from the firm’s lineup.
SPA3 is designed for modularity, that means its {hardware} and software program might be constantly improved. It’s additionally the first car to profit from Volvo’s new megacasting manufacturing course of to cut back weight and enhance manufacturing effectivity. And it is going to make the most of a structural battery pack, through which the high-voltage cells are literally a part of the structural chassis.
But the processing energy is arguably the showcase, with Volvo claiming the EX60 is its “most intelligent” automotive up to now. The EX60 is constructed round HuginCore, Volvo’s state-of-the-art {hardware} and software program system, which brings collectively the automaker’s in-house expertise with options from Google, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. Volvo says the result’s a car that’s quicker, smarter, and constantly bettering by way of over-the-air updates.
The EX60 can be Volvo’s first automotive to characteristic Google’s Gemini as its new AI assistant. The assistant is “deeply integrated” into the car’s working system, permitting drivers to have “natural and personalized” conversations. And the infotainment system is designed to be extremely responsive with zero lag — however after all we’d want to check it ourselves to say for positive.
The 800-volt structure, a primary for Volvo, additionally appears like a characteristic aimed toward lowering lag, however this time for charging. Other automakers, like Hyundai and Kia, have stood out amid cooling demand for EVs due to their fast-charging, 800-volt-architecture automobiles, and now Volvo desires to do the identical. The EX60 can cost from 10–80 p.c in 19 minutes, or add 168 miles of vary in simply 10 minutes, when utilizing a 400kW quick charger. The native NACS cost port will enable EX60 house owners to fast-charge at Tesla Supercharger stations.
Volvo can also be providing for the first time a world 10-year battery guarantee masking as much as 240,000km. This extends the firm’s earlier eight-year protection and displays confidence in its in-house battery improvement and manufacturing capabilities.
The EX60 could have different methods up its sleeve, too, together with vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid performance as normal throughout all markets and trims. Volvo has already introduced a partnership with Swedish vitality supplier Vattenfall to discover how the EX60 and different Volvo EVs might help stabilize and stability the grid.
The EX60 will are available in three powertrain variants: the P6, with 310 miles of estimate vary; the P10, with 320 miles; and the P12, with 400 miles. The P10 and P12 will each come with all-wheel drive for on the spot torque and improved traction. The P6’s single motor is in the rear wheel, for a lighter, extra agile driving expertise. With propulsion system will are available in both Plus or Ultra trim ranges for added consolation. The P6 and P10 will go into manufacturing beginning April 2026, with the P12 to observe later in the 12 months.
The P10, which Volvo says will begin at round $60,000, comes with an spectacular array of normal options, together with a 21-speaker Bose sound system, 15-inch curved OLED heart show with Google built-in, a big panoramic roof, 360-degree digital camera, 20-inch five-spoke diamond-cut wheels, Pilot Assist driver-assist system, three-zone local weather management, metallic paint, lively suspension, and a 19.2kW onboard charger.
The EX60 will arrive in a a lot totally different world than Volvo would seemingly choose. After the flubs related with the three-row EX90’s launch, the automaker is clearly hoping to recapture some pleasure by introducing an new EV in the hottest section for any car, electrical or in any other case: a two-row, five-passenger crossover SUV.
And with an upgraded manufacturing course of at Volvo’s historic Torslanda plant in Sweden and the inclusion of megacasting, Volvo can also be aiming for a worthwhile car too. Using this course of, the EX60 could have its total rear underbody forged by an 8,400-ton casting machine, permitting Volvo to exchange round 100 separate components with a single piece of aluminum.
Volvo is asking this its smartest, longest-range, and fastest-charging EV up to now — which is noteworthy as a result of these are the superlatives it used to explain the China-made ES90 sedan when it appeared like that EV was subsequent in line for manufacturing. Now the ES90 has been delayed due to tariffs and issues about profitability, leaving the EX60 as Volvo’s main effort to proper the ship on EVs.
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