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Anyways, here the Tesla presentation slide, but given their recent behavior I will remain skeptical until we have more concrete data and real world results.
Another nice "feature" if you order any Volvo is that with the Overseas Delivery program, you get two fee tickets to fly to Sweden to pick it up at the factory. They also include a night at a hotel, some local transportation, a meal, factory tour and initial insurance and registration fees so that you can drive your new car around Europe for up to 6 months. When you are done, you can drop it off and they will ship it to the US. I was waiting for the plug-in XC90 T8 for quite some time and almost ordered. Then the S70D was announced and I started looking into Tesla. The range on electric for the XC90 isn't as good as it could've been but it would probably work for the commutes of most drivers. It definitely had tons of storage and really comfortable seats that actual fold flat!
5000 lb towing capacity as standard and the T8 does 5.6 seconds on 0-62 mph without rollout, at least. Not sure about the others.
The XC90 hands down. It is truly amazing.
The problem is Overseas Delivery for the XC90 has been sold out for months. They told me maybe next year there will be more allotment.
The price of the vehicle is fixed and LOWER than the price you would pay for a car at the dealership since it didn't have all the dealer markup. No haggling involved. Here's the price list http://www.flyvolvo.com/XC90T8MY16.pdfHow does that work anyway? They say free airfare and hotel stay, but I assume it's rolled into the (then-higher) price of the vehicle?
The Volvo XC90 spec page is hard to navigate and I can't find answers to my questions so I'll just list the questions
Questions:
1. How far can it go on electric only?
2. Don't see a towing package, maybe I missed it, how much can it tow/rated/class/whatever...
3. How much ground clearance?
4. How fast 0 to 60? Rollout or no rollout, I don't care and I don't care about HP, I know some do, but not me, IMHO it doesn't matter, micro rant off
5. Why can't I get non-silver wheels? Grrrr
Lot's of good stuff on the XC90, check out the PDF!
So about the same towing as the X, and .2s faster in the 0-60 over a non-performance X (I believe that was 5.8 IIRC)
We did the Overseas Delivery for an XC90 a few years ago. Of course demand was lower for the XC90 then. Four of us traveled to Gothenberg, Sweden in late June, just before the factory closed for re-tooling.My wife is very interested in that as well, but just about every thing we looked at said excludes XC90. How does that work anyway? They say free airfare and hotel stay, but I assume it's rolled into the (then-higher) price of the vehicle?
But the electric motor only drives the rear wheels and the ICE only drives the front. Thus, to be in AWD mode, both the ICE and the EV motor must be in use.
Interior lux level on the Volvo has got to be top 1 or 2; really nice, imo.
Here's the price list for the non electric T6: http://www.flyvolvo.com/XC90MY16.pdfGood discussion all. What started off as idle musings has us contacting our local dealership to go check out a 2016 XC90. Not the electric version, but certainly worth a serious look.
She's amazed they'll cover your flight overseas with no crazy markup
I will point out again, as I did in a previous thread, C&D returned 27MPG over a 90 mile drive, with a full battery. I haven't run the numbers but that seems to be around ~18MPG after you run out of "juice."
That's a bit hard to swallow, if you do much driving over the 20 mile EV range C&R also achieved. Of course, it will still be efficient for many.
I can not locate that other thread. Would you please provide the C&D or C&R link. Thanks
I didn't give the specifics in the other thread, just commented on its poor efficiency...but here is the link to the article:
2016 Volvo XC90 First Drive Car and Driver