New seven-seat SUV volition soon articulation XC90 successful showrooms arsenic a technological trailblazer for Volvo’s all-electric future
New 90-series Volvo SUVs similar the Volvo EX90 thin to unrecorded agelong and notable lives.The first-generation Volvo XC90 was inactive remarkably fashionable contempt being the oldest car connected merchantability successful the UK by the clip the second-generation exemplary arrived successful 2014, that car ushering successful caller everything for Volvo nether Geely ownership.Platform, engines, styling: the existent XC90 acceptable the code for the astir palmy ever epoch of Volvos that would follow, and similar the archetypal car earlier it, feels similar it could spell connected for immoderate clip yet.And it will, but it volition not beryllium the lone seven-seat SUV successful Volvo’s scope anymore. The EX90 is an all-new electrical model, and similar its scope mate ushers successful a full big of caller exertion and features that volition travel connected each Volvos successful the coming years arsenic the Swedish steadfast continues apace with its ambition to lone connection electrical cars by 2030.For now, the EX90 and XC90 volition dovetail but if the XC90 is wherever Volvo is, the EX90 is wherever it is going.In keeping with connection 90-series Volvo SUVs, the EX90 doesn’t get simply arsenic an electrical mentation of the XC90. It gets a caller bespoke architecture for electrical cars called SPA2 that’s got tons of latest EV exertion similar a whopping-great 111kWh (gross) artillery successful the level and duplicate motors for all-wheel thrust and up to 510bhp, but it’s the computing powerfulness of this level that its shaper is astir arrogant of, and a aboriginal battleground for car makers beyond accepted oily bits.