What's next in Volvo's electric plan?
► New Slovakian factory due 2026today, but it’s already begun to tease the next electric SUV in its product plans. Teased image suggests a small electric crossover for next year, and fits with Volvo’s pledge of a new car every year for the foreseeable future.
While the C40 reintroduces the ‘C’ nomenclature to Volvo’s model range, Samuelsson assured us that the rest of the product range is expected to continue with the S , V and XC names, even if they end up ‘morphing’ into fully-electric models in their next generation.
R&D chief Henrik Green shares the CEO’s vision: ‘Our pure electric vehicles will be a better experience than non-pure electric vehicles. We are not trying to stand out as the most lightweight, super-energised, racetrack kind of vehicle. We come from personal safety, sustainability – it’s going to be very comfortable and pleasurable but not race-orientated to drive.
Some aspects of his job have changed more than others: ‘If you go into pure electric propulsion systems and you talk about range, you talk about charging speed etc, it’s very traditional automotive attributes. It’s physics, it’s mechanics, it’s electricity, power, efficiency, so it’s very easy to get the same engineers to start chasing new boundaries.
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