Despite living in a front- and all-wheel-drive world for more than 25 years, Volvo marks out better range and efficiency along with a return to rear-wheel drive.
The revamped 2024 Volvo XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge that arrive at U.S. dealerships later this year will offer rear-wheel drive in a Volvo for the first time since the 1990s.
For EVs, with their heavy battery packs placed around the middle of the vehicle, things are different, Volvo says. It’s decided that with more weight on the rear wheels and with the smarts of modern traction and stability control, rear-wheel-drive is actually better. The company is wasting no time in making it so—even when, as is the case here, the platform was originally engineered for front-wheel drive.
While the switch to rear-wheel drive—and that higher range and efficiency—may be the headlines for the 2024 Volvo XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge, there are some ulterior motives. These models mark the first use of Volvo’s own electric motor, engineered and built in-house in Sweden, in a move that may help Volvo keep costs under control as it shifts to an all-EV lineup by 2030.
The stouter rear motor makes for a better-driving EV. It required a new rear subframe, and that provided the opportunity to completely retune these models’ suspensions. As Erik Joelsson, the manager for NVH and vehicle dynamics for the project, explained to Motor Authority, the initial goal was to tune the new models about the same as front-drive ones.
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