We've had a go in the newly-updated-for-2023 Volvo XC90 Recharge T8 AWD – with its usefully bigger 19kWh battery. 'It might be on the cusp of replacement, but it feels like a cut-price Range Rover, and that is praise indeed,' says TimPollardCars 🤔
, while the chassis was designed from the outset to package electric powertrains. In the T8 a petrol engine in the nose drives the front wheels via an eight-speed auto gearbox. A electric generator sandwiched between the two rapidly cranks the petrol engine into life, boosts torque and charges the larger-for-2023 18.8kWh battery as required.
Back to the XC90’s drive modes. It’s better to select the Hybrid and trade a little of Power’s throttle response and poke for improved economy and some far more agreeable peace and quiet. Either way, the integration of electric and petrol power is almost seamless.
Fit and finish are exemplary, the design striking in a very pleasing, understated way and the overall sense of light, space and uncluttered calm the perfect ally to the T8’s potential for 43 miles of near-silent pure electric transportation. Additional NVH work has banished much of the background chatter of fans and compressors a combustion engine’s machinations normally mask, leaving an impressive and luxurious absence of noise.
Too many functions require plentiful prods and glances away from the road, which rapidly become annoying and fiddly on the move. Turning the heated seats on to their full power requires three stabs at the screen, for instance. And that crystal gearlever looks nice but is oddly clunky to use – and much less intuitive than the stubby lever in theThe boot size is deeply impressive . Even with all seven seats up, there is still a decent space for a few squashy bags in the back.
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