It's really just a chop-top XC40 Recharge. Nothing new here. Volvo's more important car is their next-gen XC90 replacement that's suppose to be introduced the end of this year. Bespoke platform, much more aerodynamic, all-new interior and all-new vehicle. That's the car that will begin to define Volvo's future.

Are you having any issues with a vibration around 70 mph?

@@jmetnick None!

Agreed, i think they need to start really considering the content they put into these cars. This is an entry volvo. Aim for 10% more than the Ice version. If that means you have a 10” touchscreen instead of 20 so be it. I would rather see $35-38k starting with 300-350 range, 6.5-7.5 secs with quick charging.

@@Michael-ur5qb the high cost isn’t cause of screens. It’s mostly the batteries and material cost

It’s~ US$59,845 😛

I 100% agree but please remember you still get a federal refund for buying an electric car. Don’t know how long that’ll last though.

@@Jo-bt3xr that’s expensive lol

I wish it had an actual engine in it

@@lukepatten8308 you enjoy paying gas

I have an XC40 and one of the few things I dislike are the over-complicated touch screen climate controls. My daughter's Honda Accord climate control = simple knobs that are so much easier and less of a driving distraction.

@@Pineandfeather Good to know. Physical knobs and buttons are best!

I hate these electric cars that have a fully glass roof! Annoying!

Just have the roof tinted with ceramic tint

@@apb1236 I do, but an acute sun sensitivity means it’s still not good enough. Also the interior heats up something fierce.

@@teddysdadcory I used to have a Tesla model 3. While the glass is nice, I eventually cover it with custom made shade. It reduced the inside temp. by a lot. It also reduce battery consumption as the aircon no longer needed to work as hard.

@@carlovesfam6069 cool 👍🏾 still love the brand too

Saw that as well. Came to the comments to see if someone else noticed it. lol

Not being snarky but when did leather become unsustainable?

certified nonsense alert. They got you to pay more for less, and charged you leather prices for imitation trash.

@@appointedcounsel5550 when they decided that fruit was cheaper and they could still upsell you at the price of real leather

They are ruining the car market with they're fake toy cars, if you really think they are so sustainable I'd like to see you go mine all the cobalt needed to power your fake car

@@appointedcounsel5550 It didn't, but stupid people think so because that is what the news tells them

Much more modern car, the Ioniq 5. Volvo is more upscale but more modern Volvos are coming. And Polestars.

@MultiTroll84 keep trolling. Chinese junk Volvo.

@MultiTroll84 epic troll

Not much different

Interior layout I think is better than Polestar. Lower centre console gives a more airy sense of space, Polestar is shall we say cosy. Twin cup holders in the C40, one in the Polestar. A small thing but as there is usually two of us in the car it does make life a bit easier. You get a bin in the Volvo😂 again a small thing but little touches like this makes it a little easier to live with. We also preferred the built in screen as opposed to the “attached” screen in the Polestar. The drawback is that the C40 screen is busier than the simpler layout of the Polestar. Drive wise we found the Volvo more comfortable especially on our crappy UK roads Polestar felt more sporty, we drove both the Performance and non performance versions. Suspension was certainly firmer in the Polestar. For daily driving the C40 was better for us. Performance is the same for both. I am sure there are other differences but those are the ones that made our choice, just the little things.

Always have been, I love them for all they do under the radar, just wish more people would try them!

@@joelbolton7252 I leased a 2013 S60 and didn't have good luck with it, quite a few electrical gremlins throughout the duration and one no-start occurrence which made me terminate the lease early. This is a good looking EV though with just enough range for me, I may consider Volvo again although only to lease and not own.

@@Stressless2023 That's the way it is with no only Volvo, but some other Euro cars. When you get a bad one, they're really bad. And at their price, that shouldn't happen and is rare with something like Lexus.

I don't think he cares about that. He's already making great income from the videos. Haha

Yes.

The big problem is the ridiculous battery they are using for power, get a real engine

@@lukepatten8308 . sorry engines are done Electric is much better

Much more so with an actual engine instead of a Cobalt based battery built with slave labor

Buy gas powered

If you drive to Orlando from (let’s say) Cutler Bay, you will have to stop before 😹. I need at least 300 to not suffer from range anxiety.

Fuck all electric toy cars

Volvo is coming out with their dedicated EV platform car end of year. Then all will be based on the new platform going platform. This is their last "new" EV based on a hybrid platform.

@@benjaminsmith2287 that's good news

Yes.

I can find a gas station for my ICE pretty easily, electric cars are garbage

There are ZERO desirable electric toy cars, they are all garbage

Just needs a real engine!

Have driven the Polestar. It is an exceptional vehicle. Much more interior room and cargo capacity.

Same but with a more sporty suspension.

What's your commute like? a car with a heat pump doesn't seem to lose more than 10-12miles

@@dhruvb38 sometimes my day will consist of 400-600km travel time. A lot of highway.

@@IMiss_The90s oh jeez. Yeah unless you get like a Lucid your SoL for a bit lol

@@IMiss_The90s you may want to look at a hybrid or just phev

@@8VD80Y I'm looking into the sonata hybrid. Seems to be a well rounded unit.

All electric fake cars are ugly, doesn't matter what brand

Wrong, the big minus is the horrible mistake that is the electric fake car market. They are all garbage.

@@lukepatten8308 thank you, for your pointless and ignorant bitterness

Lets hope they kick the can right into the god damn ocean, fuck electric fake cars

They said 2030, not 2025. They said they hope for 1/2 of their new vehicles sold to be electric in 2025.

That sounds like a personal problem

@@brynnleahnayvieghlaykynnn6175 rude

Wireless charge pad to charge, Wire for Apple car play or android car play

Looks

The Honda crosstour was ahead of it's time..lol. everybody stole the look.

@@RobTheSeer Exactly! I saw one a couple days ago, and I thought the same thing. Honda was too early on the look.

@@RobTheSeer agreed

@@RobTheSeer yeah but the cross tour was hideous. Lol

and it has that god awful electric battery

then don’t get one🏃‍♂️

@@_clutchbite exactly.

They need a gas powered engine to be viable

Yea the infotainment design look like a 1980 model except the screen.

@@juliocezar1132 it needs to be updated like yesterday

Thats whats keeping me from buying this model 😆 those air vents are hideous

Yeah I worry about the reliability of the butt sensor over time. Then you’re stuck somewhere and can’t drive it?

It's 4 inches taller and the Polestar 2 has a sportier suspension and a lot of differences in the interior.

That's too bad because the S60 is quite the looker. Not the first time we hear about Volvo and it's quality issues. You'd think they would stand behind their product and take care of their customers, even if you were one of the few unlucky ones who got a lemon. Thanks for letting us know though.

I had a 2013 Volvo S60 and it was pretty bad as well, not many quality control issues necessarily but quite a few electrical bugs inside, and one no-start occurrence which made me terminate the lease 2 days later about 10 months before the lease ended, had it towed to the dealer and never discovered the issue. Liked the car though. I actually find this C40 to be interesting and good looking as I'm considering an EV in the near future since the wife enjoys her 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV and we got good service from her old 2014 Chevy Volt hybrid that we traded for it, but I can't see trusting Volvo again. Will likely consider alternatives.

Must just be the sedans. I'm on my second suv (XC40 now XC60), and they've been phenomenal! But they're both built in Europe. The sedan is now built in SC. I had an S60 as a loaner, and I wasn't impressed with it either.

I think the Volvos built in the US like the S60 have lesser build quality. My XC90 built in Sweden is a bank vault.

@@chrisak49 The Volvos built in China also are bank vaults. They better get the construction right in the USA because that's where they are building the next-gen XC90 and the Polestar 3.

That size is next in the line up.

yeah I agree. They should’ve came out with an XC60 EV to compete with Model Y

But not surprising almost nobody buys wagons in the USA

@@Carfan678 A wagon would've made a lot of sense, for both aerodynamics and practicality... but even if they didn't go wagon, If they'd wanted to make their first ground-up EV something that'd sell... i'd have expected them to make something outback/CX-50 shaped, and revive the XC70 nameplate. make it not too big for the euro/asian market, not to small for the north american market, and luxurious enough for the 70 number. but a coupe crossover? is anyone buying mustang mach-Es, and tesla model Ys because they think they're good looking cars, or do they sell purely by being [bigger than a sedan and available to buy]? Volvo making their first ground-up EV a coupe crossover, says to me they don't plan on building a lot of these, and they didn't trust EV tech with one of their bread and butter nameplates whenever they drew it up. I find the C40 disappointing, and I'd rather its lithium went towards more T8 plugin hybrids.

There should be 0 electric cars anywhere, they are all awful

@@Cal94 Doesn't make sense to build something most people aren't buying. Volvo has tried to keep the wagon in the USA for as long as possible. They just weren't selling unfortunately. I agree with everything you said, btw. Volvo has stated they will make electric wagons but we'll have to wait a bit to see them.

@@benjaminsmith2287 see, i dont' think that argument is relevant here. my uneducated opinion, is Volvo clearly doesn't intend for the C40 to be a high volume product. If they wanted to sell a lot of these, they'd have chosen a more cookie-cutter bodystyle, and they wouldn't have made the XC40 recharge. Coupe-crossovers are not high volume cars, and the only examples that sell, are cars that have other attributes soo positive or unattainable that people will overlook their abnormal body shape. Model Ys and Mach-Es wouldn't be the hit that they are, if there existed a midsize electric SUV. But Volvo can't expect to compete with those other EVs, on specs or price, with the C40. so if volvo doesn't actually plan on selling a lot of [C40s], from a global perspective, a wagon makes perfect sense. Asia's not a market of big cars. There's a reason the EV6 and Ioniq5 were styled to look like hatchbacks, and i don't think it was for the north american market. The C40 ain't cookie cutter for asia, it's small in footprint, but big in styling. But Asians would know what a wagon looks like, even if they're uncommon. and if ur gonna sell a luxury car in asia, you might as well have actual space in the car, which a wagon would almost certainly have more of, than the C40. In North america, canada would be perfectly happy to buy up the US's share of EV wagons, if Volvo never sold a single one in the US, but i think it'd sell decently. Because again, People might overlook a less than ideal bodystyle, if it has something they'd be willing to overlook. And a wagon would be the perfect alternative for anyone who wanted an EV with space, and didn't want to drive a blobfish (if the koreans hadn't come swinging so hard this year). And if north america flopped, Volvo knows they'd at very least, have zero issue selling an EV wagon in europe. At the end of the day, Volvo didn't trigger me by not making an EV wagon... they trigger me by making an EV coupe-crossover. Long term, if chip shortages ended, and volvo suddenly wanted to sell a crap load of EVs... what's likely to sell more? a coupe-suv, an actual SUV, or a wagon? I think a proper SUV is the answer, and i expect XC40 recharge numbers will be good globally. it's just big enough for north america, small enough for asia and europe. but i expect a wagon would outsell a coupe crossover. at least in europe and asia.

Thats just one of many, many reasons why electric fake cars are all garbage and need to be incinerated.

you should buy one and throw it in the ocean, it is trash, all electric toy cars are trash

@@lukepatten8308 someone's a mad little country boy 😂 probably drives a California squatted Ridgeline 😂😂