![]() To disengage a safety system, for example, requires multiple steps. VOLVO CROSSOVER HYBRID DRIVERIn fact, it’s distracting and often requires the driver to take their eyes off the road. Petrina Gentile/The Globe and Mailīut the screen isn’t exactly intuitive. The central touch screen is unintuitive to navigate. After driving this plug-in hybrid, Volvo’s plan to move to fully electric vehicles makes sense it’s a smarter move since I didn’t really reap the rewards of the fuel-economy savings. I averaged 11.5L/100 km combined driving. But, unfortunately, in real-life driving scenarios, I didn’t come close to that posted number. The official fuel economy rating, according to Natural Resources Canada, is 8.8 L/100 km combined highway and city driving, which would be impressive. I suppose the savings add up after numerous trips. Not to sound lazy, but I couldn’t be bothered to go into the trunk to get the cord and then plug it into the garage for such a short distance. Frankly, it seemed pointless to charge at times. Using a regular dryer outlet, it took about four hours to fully charge the battery. ![]() Driving about twenty minutes at highway speeds with the heat and radio on did the trick for me. You can burn through that range pretty quickly. On electric power alone, the XC90 can travel about 29 km on a single charge before the gas engine takes over. As a result, it achieves the fastest acceleration time in the XC90 family – 0-100 km/hr in only 5.6 seconds, which isn’t bad for a big three-row SUV. ![]() The gas engine and electric motor combine to produce 400 horsepower (313 hp from the engine and 87 hp from the electric motor) and 472 lb-ft of torque (295 lb-ft of torque from the engine and 177 lb-ft of torque from the electric motor). You might think that an I-4 doesn’t seem sufficient for a tall, 2,310 kg all-wheel-drive SUV, but it is. Powering the XC90 hybrid is a two-litre turbocharged and supercharged four-cylinder engine mated to an electric motor. An all-electric XC90 Recharge is expected in 2022. But for now, it’s still possible to get your hands on hybrids like the XC90 Recharge plug-in hybrid, formerly known as the T8 plug-in hybrid. That means no hybrids, either – nothing with an internal combustion engine. By 2030, the Swedish automaker aims to sell only electric vehicles. ![]()
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