Volvo is near unveiling an up to date model of its XC90 three-row midsize SUV.
Although the automaker has simply launched an electrical different within the type of the 2025 EX90, the gas- and plug-in hybrid-powered XC90 will stick round, probably even past Volvo’s beforehand introduced cutoff date of 2030 for autos nonetheless geared up with a fuel engine.
The up to date XC90, which is able to possible be launched to the U.S. as a 2026 mannequin, can be revealed on Sept. 4 in a live-streamed occasion the place the automaker may even make an announcement relating to the EX90. The occasion will characteristic a “considerably refreshed XC90 and mark an enormous second within the launch of the EX90,” the automaker mentioned on Wednesday.
The EX90 electrical three-row midsize debuted within the fall of 2022 and is lastly because of begin deliveries within the U.S. later this yr, with a greater than anticipated beginning value and some options lacking. Manufacturing is underway at Volvo’s South Carolina manufacturing facility.
2025 Volvo XC90
The present XC90 began gross sales in 2015, marking an enormous step ahead for Volvo in design and boasting a complicated plug-in hybrid powertrain alongside extra typical gasoline choices. The XC90 plug-in hybrid is predicted to be included with the replace—and can possible play an enormous position in Volvo’s electrification plans.
Volvo has pledged to completely promote electrical autos by 2030, however in an announcement of the automaker’s second-quarter monetary outcomes final month, CEO Jim Rowan acknowledged that 48-volt delicate hybrids and plug-in hybrids are a really perfect bridging know-how for purchasers not able to make a swap to an EV, and that Volvo will proceed to spend money on the know-how.
Volvo at the moment has a number of plug-in hybrids—together with the XC90—in its U.S. lineup, and sellers anticipate to proceed promoting them past 2030, Automotive Information reported final month. One vendor supply advised the business commerce journal that that sellers should proceed doing this “or we’ll die.”
Whereas the EX90 fills the identical area of interest because the XC90, however with a battery-electric powertrain, Volvo had deliberate to proceed promoting the present XC90 after the EX90’s introduction to ease the EV transition—and the updates Volvo will unveil subsequent month ought to assist in extending its shelf life.
