Volvo Teases EX60 with “Groundbreaking Person Expertise”

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Volvo Vehicles has probably the most bold electrification plan amongst non-tiny legacy automakers. In the mean time, 20% of its world car gross sales are absolutely electrical car gross sales. One other 24% are plugin hybrids. The corporate plans to achieve 90–100% plugin car gross sales by 2030. One of many fashions that’s anticipated to supercharge this transition is the approaching Volvo EX60.

We don’t actually have new data on this mannequin but, however Volvo Vehicles simply put out a teaser picture of the mannequin and introduced that the up to date mannequin could be unveiled on January 21, 2026. There will probably be a complete livestreaming occasion for the mannequin, with the dwell occasion being in Stockholm, Sweden. You intend a world livestreaming occasion like this if you end up actually excited a couple of new product. Evidently Volvo Vehicles does anticipate the approaching EX60 to be a marker in its evolution and historical past.

“Born electrical, will probably be the primary automobile launched on our newest know-how base – delivering an extended electrical vary than any Volvo automobile earlier than it, together with a groundbreaking person expertise,” Volvo Vehicles writes. So a groundbreaking person expertise and a brand new know-how base — sounds fascinating. Will it actually take the trade to a complete new stage one way or the other? We’ll have to attend and see.

The EX60 can be going to be Volvo Vehicles’ first absolutely electrical midsize premium SUV. That is, in fact, a serious market today, and Volvo Vehicles notes that it’s “already a pacesetter” on this car phase. So, naturally, the corporate hopes and expects that the EX60 will do notably effectively. “Set to develop into a cornerstone within the product line, the EX60 marks a major step in Volvo Vehicles’ transformation into a totally electrified automobile maker,” the corporate provides.

Manufacturing of the EX60 will happen in Gothenburg, Sweden, on the firm’s Torslanda manufacturing facility. Indisputably, Europe will probably be its prime market. Nevertheless, one would presume that it will come to america finally. Within the second quarter, Volvo Vehicles bought 2,737 electrical automobiles within the USA — 1,383 items of the EX30, 382 items of the EX40, and 972 items of the EX90. Roughly 9% of its car gross sales within the US are EVs. Might the EX60 double EV gross sales on this facet of the Atlantic and convey the EV share of Volvo Vehicles’ quarterly totals to twenty%? In all probability not, however let’s see. It’s within the “Goldilocks” space of auto lessons in america. Individuals are much less inclined to purchase smaller automobiles just like the subcompact EX30 and compact EX40, whereas the a lot bigger EX90 is exterior of mainstream patrons’ worth vary. The EX60 could possibly be the “good” mannequin for a lot of Volvo buyers, and lots of EV buyers extra broadly.

Volvo is constantly a pacesetter within the auto trade on issues of human security and Earth security/sustainability, together with now on the essential matter of inexperienced metal. There are various causes to purchase electrical automobiles, however for individuals who are within the EV market in the beginning as a result of they’re attempting to guard our local weather and protect human livability on Earth, a Volvo could possibly be the proper buy. Perhaps the EX60?