The Android-powered infotainment system is fully integrated with Volvo On Call, the company’s digital connected services platform. The battery charges to 80 % of its capacity in 40 mins on a fast-charger system. The XC40 Recharge is everything customers expect from a Volvo, with the addition of a state-of-the-art, fully electric all-wheel drive powertrain that offers a range of over 400 km (WLTP) on a single charge and output of 408hp. “Today we take a major new step in that direction with the launch of our fully electric XC40 and the Recharge car line.” “We have said this several times before: for Volvo Cars, the future is electric,” said Håkan Samuelsson, chief executive.
To further encourage electric driving, every Volvo Recharge plug-in hybrid model will come with free electricity for a year, provided through a refund for the average electricity cost during that period. Recharge will be the overarching name for all chargeable Volvos with a fully electric and plug-in hybrid powertrain.įrom early 2020 customers entering the Volvo Cars website will first be asked whether they want a Volvo Recharge car or not. Over the next five years, Volvo Cars will launch a fully electric car every year, as it seeks to make all-electric cars 50 per cent of global sales by 2025, with the rest hybrids.
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It represents a true milestone for Volvo Cars: the company’s first electric car and the first Volvo with a brand new infotainment system powered by Google’s Android operating system. The XC40 Recharge, based on the multi-award-winning and best-selling XC40 small SUV, is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos.
Future Volvo customers will need to answer one fundamental question: do you want a new Volvo with a cord or without one? Today Volvo Cars introduces the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first ever fully electric car and the first model to appear in its brand new Recharge car line concept.