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2024 Volvo EX30
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REVIEW | Electric Volvo EX30 and BMW iX1 will redefine performance and luxury standards
www.news24.com
REVIEW | Electric Volvo EX30 and BMW iX1 will redefine performance and luxury standards
REVIEW | Electric Volvo EX30 and BMW iX1 will redefine performance and luxury standards | Life
Living with an electric vehicle is not as difficult as South Africans might think. News24 Motoring contributor Pritesh Ruthun recently drove the new Volvo EX30 and BMW iX1. He shares his experiences.
www.news24.com
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The EX30 has been delayed for the US, another year or so.
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MotorMatters review of the EX30
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The cheapest, smallest Volvo is now this £33k EX30
The EV price war is on - let the games begin
It's on: Volvo has now introduced the EX30 single motor Core trim, and it’s cheaper than the base Kia EV3 Air by £145.
Which makes this new entry-level trim £32,850, for which you get a range of up to 209 miles (almost 50 miles shy of the EV3’s range) and a reasonable amount of tech kit.
The spec includes a parking camera, parking sensors, adaptive LED lights, 18in alloys and a 12.3in Google-based infotainment screen.
The Core trim can also be specced out with an Extended Range powertrain, pushing the number of available miles on one charge up to 295. It does this from the same 64kWh NMC battery and ekes out the extra mileage by using an energy-saving heat pump integrated into the climate control system. It’ll set you back £37,050 though.
The EV price war is on - let the games begin
It's on: Volvo has now introduced the EX30 single motor Core trim, and it’s cheaper than the base Kia EV3 Air by £145.
Which makes this new entry-level trim £32,850, for which you get a range of up to 209 miles (almost 50 miles shy of the EV3’s range) and a reasonable amount of tech kit.
The spec includes a parking camera, parking sensors, adaptive LED lights, 18in alloys and a 12.3in Google-based infotainment screen.
The Core trim can also be specced out with an Extended Range powertrain, pushing the number of available miles on one charge up to 295. It does this from the same 64kWh NMC battery and ekes out the extra mileage by using an energy-saving heat pump integrated into the climate control system. It’ll set you back £37,050 though.
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SwitchOff South Africa review of the EX30
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REVIEW: Volvo’s EX30 Twin Motor is fast but there are niggles
South Africans are slowly taking up battery electric vehicles, but for now and probably the foreseeable future, sales are likely to continue trickling in and it’s unlikely that there will be a groundswell any time soon.
The reasons are well documented and we’re a sceptical bunch at best and even more so, budget conscious in an economy that’s not exactly on fire.
EVs are expensive and we have large distances that we travel adding to range anxiety. Despite improvements in charging infrastructure we’re not there yet, many people tow and EVs don’t like that and despite having the lights on for the past few months, we’re not out of the woods yet, according to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Last year just under a thousand fully electric vehicles were registered which is up 85.46 percent year on year, admittedly from a low base.
Volvo says that its XC40 Recharge was the top seller with 16.6 percent of the market while this year the single motor EX30 has been the best local seller so far with 281 units sold by the end of quarter two, making it almost one in every three electric cars sold in South Africa in the first four months.
South Africans are slowly taking up battery electric vehicles, but for now and probably the foreseeable future, sales are likely to continue trickling in and it’s unlikely that there will be a groundswell any time soon.
The reasons are well documented and we’re a sceptical bunch at best and even more so, budget conscious in an economy that’s not exactly on fire.
EVs are expensive and we have large distances that we travel adding to range anxiety. Despite improvements in charging infrastructure we’re not there yet, many people tow and EVs don’t like that and despite having the lights on for the past few months, we’re not out of the woods yet, according to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Last year just under a thousand fully electric vehicles were registered which is up 85.46 percent year on year, admittedly from a low base.
Volvo says that its XC40 Recharge was the top seller with 16.6 percent of the market while this year the single motor EX30 has been the best local seller so far with 281 units sold by the end of quarter two, making it almost one in every three electric cars sold in South Africa in the first four months.
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WATCH | Volvo's EX30 looks like a car you'd drive on the school run but with a 3.6-sec sprint time
www.news24.com
WATCH | Volvo's EX30 looks like a car you'd drive on the school run but with a 3.6-sec sprint time
WATCH | Volvo's EX30 looks like a car you'd drive on the school run but with a 3.6-sec sprint time | Life
The Volvo EX30 Ultra Twin-Motor Performance model can get to the 100km/h mark in 3.6 seconds, while it looks like the car you drive on a school run.
www.news24.com
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Mercedes-AMG C63 S E Performance vs Volvo EX30 Twin Motor Performance: Drag Race - Cars.co.za
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carsales.com.au review of the EX30
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Mini Countryman Electric vs Volvo EX30 - Electrifying
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