The Gentleman Magazine Issue 18 | December 2019 | Page 44

VOLVO CARS LAUNCHES FULLY ELECTRIC
VOLVO XC40 RECHARGE
AS PART OF NEW ELECTRIFIED CAR LINE
Future Volvo customers will need to answer one fundamental
question: do you want a new Volvo with a cord or without
one? Today, Volvo Cars introduces the XC40 Recharge, the
company’s first ever fully electric car and the first model to
appear in its brand-new Recharge car line concept.
The XC40 Recharge, based on the multi-award-winning and
best-selling XC40 small SUV, is the first of a family of fully
electric Volvos. It represents a true milestone for Volvo Cars:
the company’s first electric car and the first Volvo with a
brand-new infotainment system powered by Google’s Android
operating system.
Over the next five years, Volvo Cars will launch a fully electric
car every year, as it seeks to make all-electric cars 50 per cent of
global sales by 2025, with the rest hybrids. Recharge will be the
overarching name for all chargeable Volvos with a fully electric
and plug-in hybrid powertrain.
From early 2020, customers entering the Volvo Cars website
will first be asked whether they want a Volvo Recharge car
or not. To further encourage electric driving, every Volvo
Recharge plug-in hybrid model will come with free electricity
for a year, provided through a refund for the average electricity
cost during that period.
“We have said this several times before: for Volvo Cars, the
future is electric,” said Håkan Samuelsson, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Volvo Cars. “Today we take a major new
step in that direction with the launch of our fully electric XC40
and the Recharge car line.”
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