China's New Volvo Xc70 Suv Is A Handsome Extended-range Plug-in Hybrid That Hopefully Previews Phevs We'll Actually Get

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Earlier successful nan outpouring Volvo teased its caller XC70, which eschews nan nameplate's erstwhile lifted-wagon look successful favour of much accepted SUV styling. I don't attraction astir complaining astir that, and you shouldn't either, because sloppy of its sanction nan XC70 seems for illustration a very compelling merchandise — conscionable disregard nan truth for now it's a China-only exemplary that was developed pinch that marketplace successful mind. Now Volvo has afloat unveiled nan XC70, showing disconnected nan exterior and interior designs and giving america much specifications astir its powertrain, which is Volvo's first extended-range plug-in hybrid.

China is acold up of nan remainder of nan world erstwhile it comes to electrification, and while afloat electrical models usually make nan biggest splashes, range-extender hybrids are hugely celebrated arsenic well. Volvo president and main executive Håkan Samuelsson says nan caller XC70 is for customers who aren't yet fresh to spell afloat electric, adding that nan exemplary is "a cornerstone of our electrified merchandise portfolio, a span to afloat electrical cars for our customers, and it will fortify our beingness successful nan world's largest car market."

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The XC70 is nan first Volvo to thrust connected nan caller Scalable Modular Architecture (SMA) level that was developed specifically for long-range PHEVs, truthful expect much cars pinch akin powertrains to look down nan line. It pairs a turbocharged 1.5-liter four-cylinder state motor pinch a ample 400-volt artillery battalion and astatine slightest 1 electrical motor, but nan setup differs whether you want front-wheel thrust aliases all-wheel drive. Front-wheel-drive XC70s person a 21.2-kWh artillery and 318 horsepower, while AWD models get a 39.6-kWh artillery and a 2nd electrical centrifugal driving nan rear wheels, boosting output to 462 hp and giving it a 0-to-62-mph clip of 5.3 seconds. It's Volvo's first exemplary that has full-time all-wheel thrust erstwhile driving successful axenic electrical mode.

In AWD shape nan XC70 will beryllium capable to recreation much than 124 miles connected energy unsocial according to nan Chinese CLTC cycle, astir 3 times much than immoderate of Volvo's existent PHEVs, and nan institution says it'll beryllium capable to thrust much than 745 miles without needing to recharge aliases refuel. With nan smaller artillery it'll do person to 80 miles. When you do person to plug in, Volvo says nan XC70 tin spell from 0% to 80% complaint successful conscionable 23 minutes, and it has vehicle-to-load bi-directional charging capabilities. As pinch each different Volvos, nan XC70 comes pinch a ton of driver-assist tech, including automatic lane changes.

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I deliberation nan XC70 looks excellent, too. It's thing groundbreaking from Volvo, but a awesome improvement of nan existent creation language. The beforehand extremity has abstracted Thor's Hammer LED moving lights pinch slim rectangular headlights below, and for illustration the EX90 it has a soft precocious chemoreceptor without a accepted grille. Black trim strips link those ray pods to nan trapezoidal bumper design, giving nan XC70 a bully smiley face, and location are progressive shutters successful that little grille. I emotion nan three-dimensional surfacing successful nan little doors, which is echoed by indents successful nan hood.

The tailgate is raked guardant a spot much steeply than nan XC60's, and nan D-pillar has an moreover much noticeable footwear up astatine nan guidelines of it. The C-shaped taillights are flush against nan rear solid and person segmented LED sections for illustration connected different caller Volvos. Customers successful China tin moreover bid their XC70 pinch greenish paint! In position of existent size, nan XC70 is astir 4 inches longer than an XC60 pinch a somewhat longer wheelbase, but it's a spot little successful wide height.

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The Chinese power is overmuch much blatant connected nan interior design. Instead of a vertically oriented touchscreen for illustration connected each different caller Volvos (aside from the EM90 minivan), nan XC70 has a horizontal 15.4-inch cardinal touchscreen freestanding from nan dashboard. In beforehand of nan driver is simply a 12.3-inch gauge cluster display, and a 92-inch augmented reality head-up show is optional. The squircle steering instrumentality is simply a caller creation for Volvo that has existent beingness controls connected it, and nan halfway console has a crystal measurement knob flanked by skip way buttons. There's a wireless charging pad up of nan wood halfway console that floats complete a retention abstraction and houses a brace of cupholders.

Especially successful this monotone colour strategy nan XC70's compartment looks airy and relaxing, and nan seats look extraordinarily comfortable, arsenic we've travel to expect from Volvo. You tin besides get achromatic aliases Cardamom Brown colour schemes, pinch nan action of Nordico Vegetative Leather made from recycled materials aliases existent Nappa leather pinch spot ventilation. There's cool ambient lighting, too.

The XC70 is disposable to bid successful China now, pinch a starting value of astir $42,000 for nan guidelines exemplary and $46,000 for nan longer-range AWD trim. Volvo says nan XC70 will beryllium offered successful Europe "at a later stage," pinch nary connection connected whether it'll beryllium sold successful nan United States. That doesn't look apt fixed *waves hands* everything going connected correct now, but hopefully location are immoderate U.S.-bound Volvos successful nan pipeline that will stock nan XC70's SMA level and range-extender goodness.

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