Volvo EX60 reportedly due in 2026 with next-gen EV platform


- Volvo is reportedly engaged on an electrical different to the XC60 based mostly on a next-generation EV platform
- The crossover, due in 2026, will seemingly be referred to as an EX60
- Volvo nonetheless expects gas- and plug-in hybrid automobiles to be on sale by 2030
Volvo has 5 electrical automobiles within the pipeline, and one among them will reportedly be a battery-powered different to the top-selling XC60.
The car is anticipated to go by the title EX60, mirroring the technique of the XC90 and its EX90 electrical different, and Autocar reported on Thursday that we’ll see it arrive in 2026.
Autocar additionally reported that the EX60 would be the first car to make use of a next-generation EV platform dubbed SPA3, citing feedback made by Volvo’s deputy CEO, Björn Annwall, at Wednesday’s launch of the up to date 2025.5 XC90.
“[The XC60 is] a unbelievable automobile, and one lots of people are ready to get as a full electrical possibility,” he mentioned. “So the day we’ve that you’ll see an enormous shift in electrification.”

2025.5 Volvo XC90 and 2025 Volvo EX90
Volvo’s present EV platform is the SPA2, which debuted within the EX90. The unique SPA platform made its debut a decade in the past within the present XC90 and is designed for fuel and plug-in hybrid powertrains.
Citing earlier feedback by Volvo R&D boss Anders Bell, Autocar reported that the SPA3 platform will use the identical software program methods and electrical structure of the SPA2 platform, however be way more scalable, enabling it for use in subcompacts proper as much as full-size automobiles.
The SPA3 platform may even reportedly introduce megacasting, a manufacturing course of the place a number of physique construction parts are changed by a single part. Megacasting reduces weight and makes the manufacturing course of extra environment friendly, and Volvo in 2022 introduced plans to introduce the method at its plant Torslanda, Sweden. The plant is presently accountable for the XC60.
Volvo is not more likely to drop the XC60 as soon as the EX60 arrives. The automaker on Wednesday deserted its plan to solely promote EVs by 2030, stating that it now expects to nonetheless be promoting fuel and plug-in hybrid automobiles by that date. Which means the XC60 will seemingly be given design and expertise updates to match the EX60, just like how the XC90 was simply up to date to promote alongside the EX90.