Are legacy automakers shifting at ‘China pace’?

In Could 2025, Volvo Automobiles introduced that it was reviving the XC70 title, this time for a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) which can have as much as 200km vary in pure electrical mode. Developed to be made in China, utilizing the Geely SMA platform, it will begin as a China-only mannequin however possible be exported worldwide later. Latest stories counsel Volvo will prolong the lifetime of the XC90, presumably utilizing the identical platform and that includes plug-in hybrid know-how. The corporate’s plan to go purely electrical by 2030 has passed by the wayside; mockingly, the know-how on the centre of its volte-face will come from China, house to the most important pure electrical automobile (EV) market.