The brand new Volvo EX60 is a long-range EV with type, concert-grade audio and interesting chat

Relying on who you take heed to, the brand new Volvo EX60 is Volvo’s most vital, most superior and most important automobile of the corporate’s fashionable period. An all-electric mid-size SUV, it slots in alongside the best-selling XC60 and can arrive, with a brand new EX60 Cross Nation mannequin, later this yr.

It’s essential for a lot of causes, not least as a result of it’s the primary electrified equal of Volvo’s best-selling automobile of all time, the XC60. The brand new mannequin sits beneath the flagship EX90 SUV and ES90 saloon and is squarely pitched on the conventional household viewers Volvo has courted for years. It’s bigger and extra sensible than the compact EX30 EV and the relatively sq. XC40, which is now the one hangover from the earlier era of Volvo design.

This smorgasbord of electrification would possibly suggest that Volvo goes all in on its x promise to shun combustion altogether. Nonetheless, the combustion engine will linger on (in hybrid type) with updates to the XC40, XC60 and XC90 promised in the end. Nonetheless, there’s one other substantial replace coming down the pipeline – an overhaul of the code base and HMI of just about each Volvo constructed because the flip of the last decade, bringing them up all to the EX60’s lofty new benchmark.

For within the EX60, tech is positioned on the forefront like by no means earlier than. Volvo was early to the celebration with Google’s Android Automotive and so it’s additionally getting an early crack on the full integration of Gemini into its automobiles, beginning with the EX60. Voice recognition has been a factor for many years, with varied levels of success – Mercedes has just about refined the artwork of a automobile you possibly can speak to, for instance.