customers can now find an electrified Volvo car to fit their daily routines. Regardless of lifestyle or access to charging, U.S. The effort reflects another step toward offering only pure electric vehicles by 2030 and being carbon neutral by 2040. With the popular XC90 and XC40 SUVs, as well as the V60 Cross Country, now receiving mild hybrid engines as standard (badged B4, B5, and B6), the Swedish luxury car brand is making good on its sustainability commitment to electrify its full range of vehicles. will consist of mild hybrid, hybrid or electric vehicles equipped with Google built-in, Volvo Car USA announced today. Before then, we'll see the pure-electric XC40 later this year.MAHWAH, NJ (May 3, 2022) The entire 2023 lineup of Volvo cars in the U.S. Order books have opened, with deliveries scheduled to start in February 2020. The top-tier Inscription Pro costs the same as the R-Design Pro, bundling the same advanced features. The luxury Inscription trim costs £41,255, going with chrome exterior trim, power tailgate, and full-leather interior for £41,255 ($50,967 U.S.). The R-Design Pro adds active LED headlights and 20-inch wheels among other equipment for £42,305 ($52,264 U.S.). Standard safety kit throughout the range includes adaptive cruise control, hill start assist, lane keep assist, and oncoming lane mitigation system. That model comes with LED headlights, black exterior trim, leather seating, and 19-inch wheels. The hybrid powertrain won't be offered on the entry-level Momentum trim, but can be had on the next step up, the sporty R-Design, for £40,905 ($50,535 U.S.) on-the-road. The four additional drive modes are Hybrid, targeting overall efficiency, Power, targeting performance, Off-Road, which maximizes traction, and Individual, for custom settings. Volvo will sell a fast-charge cable for £50 plugging into a Type 2/Mode 3 outlet refills the battery in 2.5 hours through the system's 3.7-kW onboard charger. A three-plug charging cable comes standard, refilling the battery at a standard outlet, needing from 3.5 hours to six hours. In Pure driving mode and when fitted with 19-inch wheels, the 10.7-kWh battery is good for up to 28.6 miles of all-electric driving. Preliminary gas mileage on the WLTP cycle shows returns of anywhere from 112.8 mpg to 141.2 mpg on the combined cycle when fitted with 19-inch wheels, nearly tripling the best returns of the next-most frugal XC40 in the range and its D3 four-cylinder turbodiesel. The PHEV comes in front-wheel drive only, though, and needs 7.3 seconds to reach 62 miles per hour, 0.7 seconds longer than the T5 AWD.įuel consumption and UK tax benefits are the names of the green game here. Volvo claims a combined output of 258 hp, making this model the most powerful in the XC40 range, besting the 2.0-liter turbo in the T5 AWD by 14 hp. The model sees the first application of Volvo's new seven-speed twin-clutch automatic in the carmaker's modular platforms. The segment's first PHEV luxury compact crossover harnesses a 1.5-liter three-cylinder gas engine with 178 horsepower and 195 pound-feet of torque, assisted by an electric motor with 80 hp and 118 lb-ft. The UK becomes the first market to hit the target with the introduction of the XC40 T5 Twin Engine Plug-in Hybrid. In 2017, Volvo pledged that it would offer a plug-in version of all its models by 2019.
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