During this week’s reveal of its ES90 electric vehicle, Volvo also briefly teased what will likely be its next EV.
The reveal, which was streamed on Volvo’s YouTube channel Wednesday, includes a brief behind the scenes moment with the EX60, the electric counterpart to the Volvo XC60 crossover SUV that’s expected to arrive in 2026. At roughly the 24-minute mark, the back of a clay model of the EX60—with a license plate identifying it as such—is briefly shown.
Updated Volvo XC60
This quick glimpse shows a split-taillight arrangement similar to the Volvo EX30 and EX90, which the EX60 will slot between. Using the person standing alongside the clay model for scale, it appears that, as expected, the EX60 is sized somewhere between the compact EX30 and the three-row EX90 flagship.
While it’s only just now rolling out its SPA2 platform with the EX90 and ES90, the EX60 is tipped to use yet another new platform, called SPA3, which Volvo announced last September. SPA3 will reportedly aim for greater scalability through the use of mega castings, or large single castings that form parts of the body shell normally made up of smaller individual components. Volvo said in 2022 that it plans to implement mega casting manufacturing at the Torslanda, Sweden, plant that builds the XC60.
Volvo ES90
However, SPA3 is expected to share an electrical architecture and software-defined-vehicle approach with SPA2. Volvo is betting heavily on what it calls the Superset technology stack, which the automaker hopes to use to offer more software-based features. More powerful chips for this stack will debut with the ES90, and will be retrofitted to the EX90.
In addition to computing upgrades, the ES90 wraps the SPA2 hard points in a more aerodynamic high-riding hatchback shape, while adding 800-volt charging. Volvo is taking orders in Europe, but it hasn’t discussed U.S. launch timing.
