Ny Teknik Eddie Pröckl test-drove Volvo XC90 T9E.
Volvo elsatsning is because the company expects to make money. Otherwise not afford.
The range of electric drive is about 5 mil.
Volvo XC90 T9E tested by Ny Teknik Eddie Pröckl.
Volvo’s new hybrid car will come in all models. But exactly what it will cost do not want Volvo to tell now.
Mats Andersson.
A look under the hood of the Volvo electric car
Mats Andersson stands and beams in front of a gathering of European motoring journalists . He is one of Volvo’s qualified engineers, PhD, who has worked 20 years with the company powertrains. The first ten years of internal combustion engines, for ten years with electric propulsion.
He is happy that Volvo now decided to go electric with plug-in hybrids in all new models and an electric car 2019th
– At last, he says.
Vi are in a pavilion well inside Volvo’s gates on Hisingen. Engine journalists are suspicious. They ask about Volvo suddenly begun with electricity by diesel scandal at VW.
Mats Andersson assert that it is not the case.
– We have been working on electric cars for 40 years, he says, pointing at an orange prototype car in 1976 and it is located in the premises.
Then he talks about the Volvo C30 Electric, which was certainly too expensive to be sold, but leased and provided important experience.
– What has prevented us so far is the cost of batteries. But now the price drops. Meanwhile, the energy density of batteries has increased, and the charging infrastructure is built.
– Acceptance among customers is also higher, people like to run on electricity. Now we can talk about this in business terms.
Mats Andersson emphasizes what he says with curves and arrows. Volvo has concluded that it can make money on electricity. Definitely on plug-in hybrids and four years on a pure electric car. Otherwise the company can not afford.
– We can not have quotas cars like some other companies to compensate for the higher emissions in other models. We may not like Toyota subsidize a new technology for some time to give it a foothold in the market. Volvo has simply not that kind of financial muscle, he said.
It is only when new technologies are asking how much Volvo’s electric cars and hybrids to cost, compared to vehicles with combustion engines, as Mats Andersson and his colleagues begin to prevaricate.
First they ask to come back. Since we know that it is difficult to figure out, and by the way, nothing that the company communicates.
Facts Engine: Volvo T5 Twin engine
Three cylinders, 1.5 liter displacement
Effect combustion engine: 180 hp
Effect motor: 55 kW (74hk)
Battery: Lithiumjpn 9.7 kWh.
Reach: More than 50 km away.
Should sit in: Most of the nearly 80,000 hybrid cars Volvo expects to build in a few years. All hybrids based on the smaller CMA platform, possibly even the smaller cars on the SPA platform.
Wherefore the T5: It is located in the same power range as the old T5 engine with five cylinders.
Facts Volvo platforms
Large car: SPA Scalable Product Architechture
Small cars: CMA Compact Modular Architechture
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