Test Driving: Volvo XC40 Recharge Twin Electric 300 kW/408 hp

Author: Özgür Sunay

It is a compact luxury Crossover SUV model produced by the XC40 Volvo Cars, one of Volvo’s most important models. In November 2017, the Volvo Car Gent factory in Gent, Belgium, was actually a compact SUV with history. The first Plug-in hybrid model of the XC40, which was produced with conventional gasoline and diesel engines, was released in 2019. There is actually a reason why I write and explain all this. XC40, What Car? The car of the year was selected by the magazine. In January 2018, the 2018 Geneva Motor Show was awarded the Car of the Year Award in Europe.

This is the element of the security of this powerful infrastructure, past and design, this powerful infrastructure, past and design, which I perform with all of these. We are accustomed to seeing on the roads with a history that is not produced from scratch from scratch.

This powerful car, or rather the strengths of the compact SUV, is already in the square with everything. The XC40 Rechart, Volvo’s first fully electric four -wheel drive model introduced on October 16, 2019. Volvo XC40 Rechart has also broken a record among automobile manufacturers since the start of the IIHS Top Safety Pick Plus awards. IIHS gives TSP+ award to cars that provide the highest level of security. Volvo Cars received a total of 15 TSP+ awards in 2021, Nine in February, five in March, and one in April. When we look at our Volvo XC40 Rechart from the outside, there is not much to say. In terms of infrastructure and chassis, other XC40 models in terms of design, although there is not much difference in terms of design, the total length of the XC40 Recharge is 4425mm. Width, including the door mirrors that folded outdoors, 2034mm. The approved rim and rubber sizes have 235/45 R20 in front and 255/40 R20 in the back. The Volvo XC40 Recharge has a luggage volume of 413 liters in the back and 31 liters in the front. The rear tailgate can also be opened with electric and foot movement.

If we talk about the interior design and driving characteristics of the XC40 Recharge; First of all, our vehicle has a keyless running feature, but the element that needs to be considered here is actually ready for driving from the moment it sees and detects the vehicle key, and no start-stop key is not available in the vehicle. You just take the gear to D&R and move. An important driving feature that allows you to move very quickly by walking and riding this vehicle, in fact, when leaving the vehicle again, the doors and the entire circuit are closed when you get away from the car.

When we look at the back seating area of ​​the XC40 Recharge, it offers an incredibly good knee distance. It is quite comfortable and comfortable. There is a dual air conditioning output. You can deposit the rear seat heads and seats with a single movement. When you deposit the rear seats, there is a flat floor loading area. Perhaps a flat wide area where you can carry a small medium -sized refrigerator or carry a mountain bike in a very easy luggage chamber is provided in the baggage area of ​​the XC40 Recharge. Again in the front engine section, it is actually a hidden and very beautiful baggage section. In this area you can place a small notebook, bag, coat, coat, etc.

The XC40 Recharge’s versatile electric setting front seats and calf support also allow you to take a very good location in driving. When we look at the driving features of the vehicle; The fastest Volvo produced so far is very easily. At least the first feeling of departure he gave me was in that direction. When we look at the factory data, 0–100 km/h per 4.9 seconds. Speed. This feeling is really a different exciting feeling to live with the XC40 recharge twin engine without losing power to accelerate. Because you can see that you have reached the speed of 150km until you open an eye.

As I said before, as I mentioned before, the XC40 Recharge has a very strong infrastructure. This powerful body is also very important with a solid driving and sensitivity plus security elements, and this electric vehicle made by Volvo is actually the comfort of the Luxury of driving electric vehicles.

As with other Volvo models on our vehicle, we do not contain different driving modes. You can only open and use the “regenerative braking” feature of the vehicle’s menu key. When the driver release the gas pedal or the brake pedal is used, the car braking energy recovery system. With this feature, there may be recovery to the battery. But I usually used this feature by keeping it off during the test drive. Because when I stopped pressing the power pedal, the slowdown of the vehicle by keeping the braking feature closed by stacking forward and using the comfort of turning the tires by sliding like an oil on the road, I preferred to use the feeling of self -gone in the internal combustion vehicles.

Especially I have to say that the class has the best and strong lighting in the night driving and darkness. Fog lighting sensitive to the bend is also included in the vehicle. The vehicle has a high level of silence and insulation. The XC40 Rechart was able to speed up to 187km in our test drive at high speeds. I would like to remind you that as a software restriction for security reasons, it is now the same in all Volvo models. The ribbon tracking in the vehicle, autonomous driving was found to be very successful and smoothly working. The front cockpit and material quality of the vehicle are high. The front indicator screen of the vehicle features driving information and navigation map, while the pre -indicator panel remains unchanged as in driving modes. Only the map is available on the screen. As with other Volvo models in our vehicle, use as manual gear or an F1 gear option at the steering wheel. Maybe I can’t say that I was missing in this vehicle, but it would be better if it would have been the only thing I would say would be manual steering atriums. The gear is fascinated and we will not be able to reduce it, but in electric vehicles, these atria have the ability to slow down and “regenerative braking” in fast use on winding roads. Navigation and air conditioning system work on the multimedia screen as well. In this sense, thanks to the range improvement assistant on the screen, you can check the range of moment and moment. The XC40 Recharge has a very powerful Harman-Kardon music system. Intellisafe alcohol measurement, sauce keys are also among the features in the vehicle.

Among the driving features, the XC40 Recharge Twin Motor vehicle was prominent in our vehicle and stands out in the front and back of the test drive. In general, these brake discs, which are put on the back, are as large as the wheels of the vehicle, and a very powerful braking system is also included in our XC40 recharge vehicle. With the camera and radar systems located on the other side of the Volvo logo on the Volvo logo on the front, the vehicle provides a good way to adjust the distance and the brake between the safety features of the vehicle in autonomous driving. In addition, we saw that the seat belts suddenly squeezed you strongly and paste you back to your seat, and as a safety of the vehicle’s four lamps. This process takes place in the Salises instantly.

We said that the vehicle was 300 kW/408 hp and reached a speed of 100km in a very short time. It is such a strong and continuous driving feature with 4 -drawer AWD at the time it is requested, but also during our high -speed driving tests based on high -speed performance; He did not make the slightest slipping in any way, the vehicle is not inclined to slip from the front or behind, the same way very strong infrastructure chassis and security systems hold on the road well, the vehicle’s lane and line was viewed.

With the Volvo XC40 Rechart, which has been developed from the past to day, which has such a powerful and infrastructure, we experienced by seeing how strong and strong it has a structure and how it holds on the road. The deployment of the suspension shock absorber structure and the battery weight on the bottom and the front -rear electric motors on the bottom and the fact that the vehicle’s weight balance center is well adjusted with all the safety elements makes it possible to have a perfect Volvo of 4 × 4. Thanks to the AWD “Land Selection” driving mode, which is also on the menu key of the vehicle, the vehicle provides a stronger traction at low speeds in the tough slope landing areas or in the soil road, off -road land driving. When you select this mode, your land and off-road drives promise safer use.

We tried our vehicle in high-speed charging stations in Borusan auto centers and in Bolu-Ankara tunnel output and highway resting break facilities. While the battery is completely empty, our vehicle is full in approximately 2-2.5 hours at fast charging points with 50kW-60kW speeds. In this way, with a full -full battery on our range driving screen, it shows 440km in the first place. However, according to your driving characteristics, this range varies as 350km and 400km. While the battery battery of our vehicle is full of50 percent, we saw that we could fill our vehicle in 45 minutes at average with a speed of 50KW at fast charging points.

Our Volvo XC40 Recharge vehicle has a 78kWh lithium ion high -voltage battery battery. Some fast charging points have 180KW fast charging units, especially throughout Istanbul. When we want to charge our vehicle quickly, we have seen that the points and units of the e-Sharj brand provide a maximum of 60kW of energy rapid charging in this sense. The phone call we made with E-Sarj reported that 180kW energy is not fully given at these points in the customer support assistant feedback. For this reason, we could not charge our vehicle at 180kw and higher speeds. In the next electric vehicle test drives, we will definitely identify the highest speed charging points and try to charge our test tools again.

Volvo XC40 Recharge Full Electric Vehicle is the starting price of 1.676.004TL as dealers in Türkiye.