It has been expected, but the Volvo EX30 is finally a reality and meets expectations. The brand's access electric SUV is a kind of scale version of the C40, but with its own design at the rear and with a format that in a certain way brings it closer to compact than to SUVs per se.
It belongs to the SUV segment and its measurements are as follows: 4.23 meters long, 1.84 wide, and 1.56 high, which adds a wheelbase of 2.65 meters. The minimum weight it has is 1,830 kilos.
The design of the electric car is completely familiar and it is that it follows the line marked by the last Volvos, with a clean body, clean surfaces, and unmistakable features such as the light clusters in the shape of Thor's hammer.
It is the rear where the youngest of the family shows his own personality. The roof falls gently, the cut at the rear is very vertical, and the rear window has a container size and is guarded by light groups, but then lower down, on the sheet metal, they unfold and extend across the entire width, framing the Volvo logo.
In the minimalist interior, the main surprise is that the instrument panel is dispensed with to give all the prominence to the 12.3-inch vertical central screen. The multimedia system is based on Android and Apple CarPlay is wirelessly compatible.
The Volvo EX30 engine range includes three launch options, only the top one being the one with all-wheel drive.
The access version is the Single Motor, which uses a block of 272 CV (200 kW) and 343 Nm, has rear-wheel drive, and mounts a 49 kWh battery. It accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 5.7 seconds, its top speed is 180 km/h and it has a range of 344 km. It supports fast charging in DC up to 134 kW, with which it goes from 10 to 80% in 25 minutes.
It is followed by the Single Motor Extended Range, which maintains power, rear-wheel drive format, and top speed; but it uses a 64 kWh battery, approves a range of 480 km, and reduces acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h to 5.3 seconds. In addition, while alternating current that only charges at 11 kW, this one is capable of doing so at double the power, at 22 kW.
The top of the range is the Twin Motor Performance with all-wheel drive, two engines that deliver 428 hp and 543 Nm, and acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.6 seconds. It also has a large battery, but given its higher performance, autonomy suffers slightly up to 460 km. It is the version with the highest DC charging capacity: up to 153 kW.
An interesting novelty is that in 2024 a variant called Volvo EX30 Cross Country will be added, which does not indicate so much an engine as a more country approach, with its own additions to perform off-road: all-terrain tires, greater ground clearance, reinforcements on the bumper guards, etc.
At the moment the Volvo EX30 is not open for orders in Europe, but the registration is already available for reservations in the United States, where the access price is $36,145. Thus, in Spain, the brand indicates a rate of around 36,000 euros.
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