Volvo seems to have worked when it comes to persuading customers that the plug-in hybrid variation of its latest SUV is a good one to buy. Given that putting the XC90 on sale in 2015, one in 5 sold worldwide have been of the plug-in variety. That suggests Volvo is offering about 1,000 of the PHEVs a month, worldwide. Hybrid Cars states Volvo sold 402 of the XC90 PHEVs in the US through completion of February.
Volvo stated in 2015 that the XC90 is its first vehicle “developed from the ground up for plug-in/electrification compatibility.” The luxury three-row plug-in hybrid, which starts at about $68,000 in the United States, provides about 400 horse power in between its electrical and gas-powered motors. The vehicle has an EPA-rated fuel economy of 53 miles per gallon-equivalent and can reach 14 miles on electrical energy alone. It can likewise zip from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 5.7 seconds. The trade-off is that it’s been granted with an $18,000 premium over the gas-powered variation in the US.
Volvo hasn’t been widely connected with the green-car movement for as long as firms like Toyota and Nissan, but it’s been pushing in that direction for the past couple of years, saying that it will shift all of its designs to the high-efficiency Drive-E engines based upon the brand-new Volvo Engine Architecture (VEA). All of those engines are all-aluminum, turbocharged, and direct-fuel-injected. The company is planning to debut its very first battery-electric car in 2019. To that end, Volvo just recently and openly expressed assistance for the adoption of a single standardized charging infrastructure. Volvo says the Combined Charging System (CCS, also called SAE Combination) is the very best option for a global requirement because it enables both A/C and DC charging.
