Volvo's Showtime All Electrical Vehicle Is An All-Wheel Sweat Suv Amongst 408-Horsepower

Hard to imagine but this is Volvo’s first-ever fully-electric car. With all of the premium carmaker’s speak of going electrified, they exclusively had hybrids together with plug-in hybrids inward their line-up, non sum electrical ones. Well, they appear to hold upwards making upwards for lost fourth dimension because the all-electric XC40 volition hold upwards the begin of whatever models nether its novel “Recharge” line.

The XC40 Recharge blends the award-winning pattern of Volvo’s babe SUV amongst a state-of-the-art fully electrical all-wheel drive powertrain that delivers an output of 408 horsepower together with a arrive at of to a greater extent than than 400 kilometers on a unmarried charge. What’s better, the battery charges to eighty pct of its capacity inward only forty minutes using a fast-charger system.

Thanks to its EV powertrain, the XC40 Recharge adds a front end torso of “frunk” adding fifty-fifty to a greater extent than cargo flexibility—a trait the conventionally-powered XC40 is already renowned for. It’s too the begin Volvo to characteristic the next-generation infotainment organisation forthwith powered yesteryear Google’s Android operating system.

After the XC40 Recharge, Volvo Cars volition launch a fully electrical machine every twelvemonth over the adjacent v years. Every model inward the arrive at volition offering a Recharge pick from the XC40 to the lx serial to fifty-fifty the XC90. Currently, Volvo is the exclusively carmaker to offering a plug-in variant of every model inward its line-up.

To farther encourage electrical driving, Volvo, at to the lowest degree inward Europe, volition offering every Recharge model amongst “free electricity” for a year—through a refund for the average electricity toll during that period.