Volvo To Produce At Least One New Model And One Updated Model Per Year

The information comes from a dealer meeting in the US in connection with the EX90 to be built there, which we picked up a bit of thanks to Automotive News. First of all, the promise is made that no fewer than ten new models will appear in the next two years, including completely new models and facelifts. There is a big caveat to this. The small EX30 has not yet been introduced in North America due to enormous import duties and the electric versions of the XC40 and C40 are not yet called EX40 and EC40 there, as they are in our country. There is a good chance that three new products have already been covered. Add to that the EX90, the facelifted XC90 and the announced ES90 and there are still four newcomers left for those two years. One of them is undoubtedly the also-announced EX60, a compact brother of the EX90 that could score high as an electric alternative to the XC60. If things go as well as they did with the EX90, the arrival of an EX60 will also mean a major facelift for the XC60, and we will already be looking at the eighth new feature.

According to Automotive News, one of the remaining news items is a plug-in hybrid with a longer range than we are used to from Volvo. It would be a car or cars on the SPA1 platform, which almost the entire current gasoline line-up (except the 40s) already uses. Volvo may once again screw larger batteries into these models after it previously made the move to 18.8 kWh units. Automotive News also states that work is in progress on a station wagon-like EV called the EV60. If only Renault would approve.

The promise of at least one new and one refreshed model per year for the next eight years is reportedly global. So there is certainly a lot of Volvo news in the pipeline, both in the short and long term. “We are just getting warmed up,” Volvo Canada boss Michael Cottone summarizes after the EX90 and XC90.

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