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is planning to release a fully electric version of its
as its first
. The Swedish car maker reportedly told
the information at a safety event in Sweden. It plans to release the electric
before the end of the year.
This electric
would be the first with a Volvo badge on it, but is the second full
in the Volvo Motor Group behind the
. That vehicle was announced at the
and will go on sale in 2020, which corresponds to the electric XC40’s timeline, as well.
The fully electric XC40 takes the crossover one step further than what Volvo said it would do with partial electrification. We’ve also
that Volvo plans to offer its three-cylinder engine to buyers in the U.S. as the engine equipped to a
variant. There isn’t any official information or specs on what this
might offer, but we expect the vehicle to hit the streets in 2019.
All this electric news coming from the Swedish automaker follows the company’s intent to make 50 percent of its global sales by 2025
. There’s no news on how far the XC40 will go on a charge or how much power it’s going to make, but it will continue to ride on Volvo’s CMA platform that also underpins the
. That particular vehicle is targeting a 275-mile range, but
with less range are expected to join the lineup. We definitely expect less range out of the taller, chunkier XC40, but somewhere in the mid-200s shouldn’t be out of the question. Pricing for the Polestar 2 greatly outpaces XC40 prices now, so we’ll have to wait and see what Volvo prioritizes for its first full EV.
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