We guessed in June that Volvo’s string of teaser photographs for the EX60 crossover may final perpetually, and the newest from the Swedish automaker provides us the reply. It would solely look like perpetually, it seems, as a result of Volvo has introduced the reveal date together with the newest picture.
The most recent exhibits the EX60 in silhouette obscured by a cloud of sand. Not obscured is the reveal date. January 21, 2026 is after we’ll lastly get to be taught all the things concerning the mannequin that ought to most likely have been the model’s first EV.
EX60 One Of Volvo’s Final To Get An Electrical Variant
That we can’t even see the EX60 till 2026 exhibits simply how far the Swedish automaker has fallen behind on its authentic electrical plans. In 2021, Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson stated that the model was investing sooner or later. That it will see 50% of its world gross sales be electrical autos by this yr and the opposite half hybrids. It will be a completely electrical model by the top of the last decade.
But right here we’re on the finish of 2025 and Volvo’s hottest mannequin continues to be not provided as an EV. Its EV gross sales are simply 21% of complete gross sales and, even together with PHEVs, the whole is nicely below half.
However, there are positively some advantages to ready. The EX60 would be the first mannequin on the corporate’s newest SPA3 platform, which evolves and builds on what it discovered with the EX90. New casting know-how will slash complete components, together with lowering the rear flooring from 100 components to only one. It would additionally use the battery as a part of the construction of the automobile for extra vitality density and better vary.
New Volvo Will Have At Least 435-Mile Vary
This midsized electrical crossover, Volvo says, could have an extended electrical vary than any automobile the corporate has constructed earlier than. That guarantees spectacular distance, as the corporate’s present vary champ is the upcoming ES90 sedan that Volvo says can do 435 miles on a cost. Regardless that that is on the beneficiant WLTP check cycle, we would count on it to transform to someplace between 350-400 miles on the EPA cycle. It is a determine that will put it among the many greatest within the US for vary.
The ES90 can cost at as much as 350 kW, including a 10-80% cost in as little as 20 minutes. The EX60 ought to have the ability to cost up no less than as shortly. We’re additionally hoping it should supply the ES90’s strongest motors, which give that automotive 671 horsepower and 535 pound-feet of torque to make that automotive probably the most highly effective Volvo ever.
Volvo additionally says it should ship “a groundbreaking consumer expertise.” The ES90, Volvo’s final reveal, exhibits a cabin that is largely unchanged from the EX90 and EX30. We’re undecided what to anticipate right here, however Volvo has had some high-tech cabins in recent times, so the EX60’s infotainment system will definitely be superior.
The reveal occurs in January and Volvo says that it’s going to enter manufacturing within the first half of the yr. Volvo will construct the EX60 at its plant in Gothenburg, Sweden.