The popular Volvo XC90 SUV keeps its plug-in hybrid powertrain, but gets updated styling and a new infotainment interface for 2025.
The Volvo XC90 is the Swedish automaker’s most important model of the 21st century. The first-generation XC90 was Volvo ’s first SUV, while the second-generation model first shown in 2014 set a template for design and tech that Volvo is still following. And while it’s not a redesign, the 2025 Volvo XC90 will continue to play an important role.
Plug-in hybrids offer some all-electric range for shorter drives, with the flexibility of a combustion engine for longer trips, or for owners who may not have home charging sorted. That’s as true of the XC90’s plug-in powertrain today was it was when it was introduced about a decade ago. But the rest of this three-row SUV needed an update, so the 2025 Volvo XC90 gets styling and tech updates to keep it fresh.
Inside, Volvo retained the previous XC90’s minimalist cabin design and classy touches like an available Orrefors crystal shifter, while adding mesh speakers for the optional Bowers & Wilkins audio system similar to the EX90. On the functional side, the center console was redesigned to provide easier access to the wireless phone charger and to provide an extra smaller cupholder for cans. In the U.S., the XC90 will be available with three rows and six or seven seats.
As with other recent Volvo models, the updated XC90 uses an Android-based infotainment system with Google built-in features, including Google Maps and Google Assistant voice control. Volvo plans to make Apple CarPlay standard as well . A lithium-ion battery pack with 18.8 kilowatt-hours of gross capacity and 14.7kWh of usable capacity runs down the vehicle’s spine in what would have been the transmission tunnel in a different era of Volvo. The 33 miles of electric range and efficiency rating of 58 MPGe combined are unchanged from last year’s model. A 3.7-kilowatt AC onboard charger can recharge an empty battery in about five hours, Volvo estimates.
Continuing the journey Volvo didn’t have specific pricing for plug-in hybrids available at press time. The automaker is currently quoting only a base price of $59,745, but that’s unlikely to apply to plug-in hybrids, which started around $72,000 for 2024 models.
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