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Later this month, Volvo will unveil its new EX60 SUV. The Swedish automaker has adopted some of the latest trends in electric vehicle design for the EX60, like a structural battery pack and the use of very large castings. As always with automakers teasing a new car, concrete details are only emerging slowly ahead of the official reveal on January 21, but we can say that range and recharging speeds were a priority during the design process.

“With our new electric vehicle architecture, we directly address the main worries that customers have when considering a switch to a fully electric car. The result is class-leading range and fast charging speeds, marking the end of range anxiety,” said Anders Bell, Volvo’s CTO.

Volvo says that its SUV will be best-in-class for range, which means 400 miles (644 km) from a fully charged battery under the EPA test cycle (although an official EPA range number isn’t due yet). Fast charging should also live up to the name. Providing you plug into a 400 kW DC fast charger, the EX60 should add 168 miles (270 km) of range in 10 minutes, although we don’t know how long it requires to fast charge from 10–80 percent.

Like some other recent EVs we’ve seen, the EX60 uses a cell-to-body approach for the battery pack, which maximizes the volume that can be used for the battery itself and saves weight in the process. Volvo says it has designed the car’s motors in-house for better efficiency, and it’s using “mega castings,” which again cut weight by replacing subassemblies made from hundreds of parts with single-piece replacements.

The rear floor is a single casting.
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2025 was a tough year for Volvo, which saw global sales fall by 7 percent year over year, with double-digit declines in EV sales in Europe (down 22 percent) and China (down 46 percent). The US was actually an outlier here—the EX30 and EX90 helped the brand sell twice as many EVs in the US in 2025 as it did in 2024. Having something fully electric but midway in size between the small EX30 and large EX90 will surely help in those weaker markets.