The 2022 Volvo XC40 RECHARGE Is a Shockingly Awesome EV Off-Roader Because....
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In this video I take the brand new Volvo XC40 Recharge off-road to see how good it is out in the rocks, logs, & holes.
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That would make for a nice “wilderness” version with just a little more clearance and more a capable wheel+tire combo
Well hotwheels did it before volvo 🤣
I like when EVs don’t go too far to differentiate themselves visually from the ICE vehicles.
The XC40 is also a nice sleeper. I remember when I test drove one and tested the acceleration at the highway junction. I didn't realize it but there was an old BMW 7-series behind me when I floored the Volvo lol. All of the sudden I hear roaring scream of the BMW kicking down far behind me and the pissed off driver eventually passed me at 180-200km/h lol. I was laughing my guts off. I was really impressed with the XC40 twin but eventually went for MB EQC just because I could and it has a more premium status.
Nice to see the SUV course get some use! The Volvo did pretty well for certain.
I was looking for an off road test of the XC40 BEV for months now.
Good job TFL! 🙂
This car did a great job delivering all this torgue to the ground imho.
Great review. Took it off-road today myself (use it as a commuter). Had lots of fun on a muddy route with a lot of holes.
Thanks for the Off-road review. I've been waiting for it for a while as I've never taken mine on dirt yet. As for long-distance driving, Driving from Vancouver to LA was a breeze with it. Now I am definitely less worried to take it off-road
Super impressed - capable vehicle and love the tumbleweed course!
Would love to see you try this course with all the current “crossover” EV’s. Like ID4, Model Y, Mach-E, IONIQ 5, BZ4X, Solterra, etc.
The mach E would die. it has 5.9" of ground clearance. Ioniq5, 6" roughly. This barely made it due to physical limitations.
Very few of those cars have anything like the off road mode that the Volvo has. Probably the only one is the Bz4X/Solterra which has a Subaru developed system that matches the ICE one - very similar to the Volvo one.
Nice a ride to/from a lot of remote hikes, even multiple day/night hikes. Plenty of equipment room and save VERY uneven terrain, a whole lot of slow speed competence for most vehicle trails. Thanks for showing it off!!
To open trunk using foot you have to do a quick kick between first V and O in VOLVO label. Not putting foot under car and moving left and right. Sensor doesn't work this way. Just quick kick and voila, trunk is open.
Nice video! Loving my xc40 recharge. You’re right about the lack of range. I use this as a daily commuter. It’s so comfortable and fun to drive!
@@bluegarson I dont travel more than about 120 mi/day. It was used as my daily commuter. I have a different car for long trips. I recently sold my xc40 because my Rivian was being delivered.
Regarding the more stickers for ev differentiation; most luxury vehicle buyers have been polled by brands and often would rather the badging be minimal. We have a X5 45e and we recently received just such a survey about our experience with it and questions for us and we didn’t want too much badging either. Just thought I’d give some insight into the context of why they haven’t been doing that. I have a friend with a polestar 2 and also they appreciate that it’s got minimal badges that say ev as well.
I have my 2022 XC40 in Sage Green. It is the most relaxing drive on highways and I am slowly going more and more gentle off-road. It isn’t a 4X4 like my Mitsubishi Triton, but then it does pretend to be. It is the epitome of luxurious comfort, the best in class Safety, has 408HP, does the 1/4 mile in ~13s. Oh the infotainment system is phenomenal, with more speakers and an Active Air Subwoofer.
Got to test drive one on Saturday. So nice!
Thanks, this has 17.6cm clear height, we have XC60 MY19 with 21cm and I was worried about terrain driving (sometimes I scratched belly o ours), now I'm calm :D We will go on test drive in one hour :)
Very good.
Thanks.... from Portugal
I thought these tires were going to pop on the rocks! very impressive Volvo
That rock climb had me sweating for you and that vehicle.
That color looks like Ford's Area 51. Great looking vehicle. Great review.
Pirelli tyres will surely get you to promote them. Lol. Good job!
Three things are needed and one WANTED:
100 miles more range
An XC-60 Recharge BEV with 300 miles of range
A V-60 Cross Country Recharge BEV with 300 miles of range
Forest Service Green as a color option.
*Sage Green?
@@whateveriam12 A little too dull
Wait until 2024-5, and be prepared to cough up $70-80K US for the XC60 Pure Recharge. My XC40 is on a ship from Belgium, and I cringed every time he drove over those rocks. Those are 40 and 45 series Pirellis at about $1500 per set, and about $1000 a pop for the rims. Nice to know his demo car can do it, but I’d leave it to my old Tonga Green Land Rover to do stuff like that. BTW, the closest to a Forest Service Green on the XC60 is ‘Pine Grey’. The XC40 Sage Green is much paler - v-logger Bjørn Nyland described it as ‘cement coloured’, which on a grey Pacific Northwest day it probably is, and I’m good with that. No one wants to mess with a concrete Volvo.
Wow! I’m extremely impressed by the off road capabilities of this vehicle. 😃
It's very impressive even on regular roads. I really liked it after I got used to the weird gas pedal feel where you get almost no response first, then a lot.
Big 78Kwh battery only 76 available . They don’t want you to charge more than 90% and that in my driving experience now for 40k miles in this exact model which gives you 180 maybe if to go 65 on flat ground at 75 degrees ambient temp. The non Tesla DC charging infrastructure is absolutely unreliable (electrify americaor chargepoint)
How can Volvo have a frunk from an ICE shares platform, and here are the all mighty BMW and Mercedes with dedicated EV platforms and zero space at the front? Ridiculous! I know there are others guilty of the same, or having very small frunks (such as Kia/Hyundai), but come on - Volvo has done it from this platform!
As soon as he opened the hood I was asking myself the same question
Dedicated EVs have much shorter front ends and don't waste the space for a frunk, which is a very inefficient use of space. If you look at dedicated EV platforms, they are able to offer a lot more interior space within a smaller footprint. This car does it because it usually has an engine under there so they wanted to make use of the space. But a dedicated EV shouldn't have a frunk if it is designed efficiently. Dedicated EVs like Teslas that have frunks also have a long hood for looks, not because it is necessary, but because they have the room since they are prioritizing looks.
@@davetravels9273 - I must agree!!
Can you do a road 0-60 test and maybe a charging test as electrify America similar to your mini review??
were you using one pedal mode or regular 2 pedals ?
Does it only come with a PHEV or will it also come with HEV?
Great video Tommy. Can you try this with a Model Y please?
Just got wheels and tires for my 2021 XC40 Recharge! 18” KMC Wheels and BFG Trail Terrains 255/55/18’s 🔥
What about ground clearance? Is the same or will be higher? I'm looking into a C40 with better off road capabilities 🤔
@@danielsolis8787 it’s the same
I wish they would make a cross country variant for all their ev suvs. I know that xc essentially is Volvo labeling the car “cross (x) county (c) “ but they don’t really have the same aggressive rugged outdoor look as the earlier ones with the plastic cladding, the roof bars, the optional bull bars and headlight protectors .
I guess we’ll have to turn to Subaru for that nowadays.
Those tires definitely took a lot more punishment than the tires on the Land Rover Defender you drove a while back, which got punctured within a few seconds of you starting the off-road course.
You also have awesome Dare in you bro.
I’ve enjoyed every Volvo I’ve had
Does this mean no more Tommy's rollers-of-truth slip test?
"Of course the battery does have a lot of shielding on it..."
Can you expound on this in a technical and objective manner? I have been wondering this for a while.
@TFLEV I wish the bigger brother, XC60 Recharge, was a full ev and not a PHEV!
The XC60 Recharge has more impressive ground clearance, horsepower, torque and cabin/storage space!
Smaller rims and tyres, more ground clearance and a better range and it's a fantastic preposition. Stock standard around town it'd be good though.
Good vehicle for soccer moms who may have to park in a soggy grass field during a tournament weekend! 😂
I never thought of putting my phone vertical like that, because there is a wireless charger if you lay it flat there.
Also, the front hood area has a tire inflator & puncture kit under the storage space.
Great review!
The colour matches your shirt!
I have a Polestar 2 and I simply love it. Good Job Volvo.
I have a PS2 performance and at 6k miles been really good. Have one small rattle driving me nuts 🤪. I'll never buy a ICE again. I assume the PS2 would perform the same if it had more ground clearance. I've yet to see the traction light flash even on wet roads. As soon as the P3 comes I see a trade in happening as I do miss the more suv size.
@@chuckstephan Performance, Pilot, Plus club!!
I have a 2020 V60 Cross Country and love it, I would purchase this in a heart beat.
I agree with you, Tommy- it's BLUE. I am also beginning to think you are developing some aggressive behavioural tendencies toward low profile sidewalls (the Defender video clip is on the internet forever...) HAHA!
Put a 2 inch lift with smaller wheels and better offroad tires theyd really have somthing cool.
First Volvo I’m kind of interested in since the 1974 145e I had in college.. The XC40 Recharge looks like a good car.
Are you in slow motion in offroad or this is the actual speed it moves?
So what tires does one use if Pirelli tires don't work in these kind of off-road situations?
Tommy should have been more specific when talking the wheels and tires that came on this vehicle. It's not the brand that is the "problem" here, but the size and TYPE of tire. For example, if you noticed on some of the more pointed rocks, the rubber came dangerously close to "bottoming out" when it compressed almost all the way down to the rim, risking damage. Traditional off-road wheel/tire combos offer a higher sidewall, therefore more rubber between the road and the rim of the wheel. If the car came with the factory available 19 inch wheels instead of the 20 inch wheels shown in this video, you would get slightly more sidewall/rubber for more capability. And if you further bought an "A/T" rated tire like the Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus, their chunky tread pattern and tire compound would give you more off-road traction. BUT, no one is buying a XC40 Recharge for off-road rock and log courses, so Volvo sells the car with an all season road tire that maximizes on-road handling and comfort according to them. It's also worth noting that that extra rubber sidewall height is also often better for on-road comfort, but because of fashion trends, many vehicles (even those not dedicated for sporty driving characteristics) come with large wheels and low profile tires.
Comparing this with the loaded BZ4X price, feature, design wise... this wins hands down.
and it charges much faster, and has way more power.
Except the BZ4x has 8.1 inches of ground clearance and its twin, the Subaru Solterra has a class-leading 8.3 inches of ground clearance. If you're going to spend significant time off road, you are giving up around an inch and a half if you go with the Volvo.
Pretty impressive 👍
In all fairness compared to the model x off-road this is miles superior in terms of traction control off road
I think it could have made the "holes" section all the way in standard drive. You did not give it enough time to figure it out at the top. (unlike the chances you gave it on the rocks) AWD OR is impressive. EV OR on 18 inch wheels would be far less stressful tho. I can only imagine you were clinching your jaw waiting to say FnA! For when the tires pop. lol The camera views def. illustrate well why those size tires are a BAD idea. But all that being said, it is more than likely only .001 % of the buyers of that vehicle will be in an environment like you just ran it through. So it goes above and beyond what it was meant for. :) Good audio, good camera work, editing, driving and commentary. And of course a shout out to your course developer for the hard work in making a play ground for you. lol
Wonder if you could get a lift kit for it?
wondered the same.. have you found any?
Good car
looks like it's ready for a paint job IMHO
Tommy has blown out a tire under very similar conditions I'm sure he winced when seeing the coverage when seeing that rear tire got super pinched on that rock. Good for having the patience to slowly drive over the rocks and for the Pirellis standing up to the pressure.
i think if Samsung made the Andriod system in these cars it would be a winner, i love my S7 except it burns my fingers cause the better gets hot and that wouldn't be a problem in car...
Would be nice to have a more AT wheel and tire combo.
I agree and would also be curious to see how it'd perform with more aggressive tires, but I question if they even make AT tires in a low-profile size that would fit it, definitely wouldn't be easy to find. Using different rims would also be difficult due to the surprisingly massive brakes, certain styles will MAYBE fit in 18", but even the factory 19s on the base model barely clear the front calipers.
Can you add a bit of lift to these and maybe fit a larger tyre?
Yes, 255/55-18 KO2's work with a spa er for ride height.
The reason for the jack is because it is a Swedish car. And in Sweden and Norway we changes the tiers our self. From winter tires to summer tiers.
What’s the background song?
I think you lost the exhaust pipe somewhere :-)
Good to see at least SOME ground clearance on BEVs at last. All the other "SUVs" are just a bunch of tall city hatchbacks. There is no Utility in that.
Yeah, my Kona Electric has terrible ground clearance for something that claims to be a CUV / SUV. I’ve heard a few scrapes already and have only had it a few weeks.
That's impressive. Google!
Gnarly dude!
They are pretty good looking for a BEV. We had an I-Pace and that was really good off-road. Jaguar even encouraged us to use it off-road,,, unlike Tesla who said it would void our warranty. Since we lived in the foothills down a gravel road that would get gnarly in bad weather, we told Tesla to get stuffed! 😂
We don’t have it anymore,,,,, lots has changed,,, but the range, especially in winter of course, was a real issue. We were never stranded, but at less than 5% getting home in blizzards,,,,. That was too unsafe as once the battery is dead,,,, the vehicle “could” become a very cold coffin. We switched to a Wrangler Sahara 4xe, put Michelin Cross Climates on it and have been really happy so far with around 68% EV only usage when we lived in the country, and closer to 74% EV only usage now that we live just outside the city! (Health issues forced a move.) We can head out anywhere and have no concerns about time vs range vs being stranded and can then chose WHEN we want straight EV use. We have a camping trailer we have towed with it and we can enter the campgrounds late at night in pure EV mode and not wake the great nieces and nephews sleeping in their parents campers or tents. (Unlike my cousin with his 2006 Ram 2500 diesel with custom exhaust. You can hear them for miles in the country,,,,, literally!! We banned them from some of our country campgrounds we developed on vacation land parcels. He was annoyed, but is now looking at upgrading to a Chevy 1500 3.0 litre diesel. It has numbers comparable to his 2006 but is much quieter and much more efficient!! His trailer is a 5th wheel with a loaded weight around 7,000 lbs so the 3/4 ton is overkill really. Maybe we will let him camp at all of our spots after that!!! 😂😂. He has some other traits,,,,,,, well,,,,.
I don't understand why the Recharge has much less ground clearance than the petrol version. I'm also not sure why the range isn't a bit better with the 78 kW battery. I know it's heavy and AWD but some other cars do better.
It might be because the battery hangs down lower on the car. Also the added weight probably lowers the suspension
@@jearlblah5169 Good point about the battery. You're probably right, I would say.
Those EPA ranges are based on running the vehicle in a controlled environment under the most idealized condition. Turn on the heater during winter driving and go up a 10% grade on the freeway, watch the range decrease by half.
You'll end up mighty high with freeway speeds and 10% grade. Might end up needing extra oxygen.
@@Sahkoautoseparempiauto Sounds like you've never been to Colorado.
@@bohan9957 Nope, but I suspect you don't have over 20km high hills..so no. Range is no issue. Plus all that sweet regen on the way down. 😍
I don’t know about that. For the price, range and ground clearance, I’d probably go for the Solterra instead.
What's the ground clearance on a Solterra?
8.3” for the Solterra vs 6.7” for the Recharge.
@@johnmcandrew5550 thanks John. Good to see although I would have a hard living in Toyota's very plastic interiors.
How is this on a beach
Surprisingly capable, this little electric elk ;-) Great vid, TFL!
Wondering if one foot driving would be good for that.
Was thinking that esp since tommy was doing two foot driving.
it was engaged!
Then why two foot?
Like it but it should offer much better range.
One thing seems to be missing is an option of increasing the drive height when shifted into the offroad mode. How an EV with a battery designed so close to ground could miss that??
I think only Jaguar has that option.
Volvo XC40 RECHARGE performed amazing in that hard course. But I was thinking why a $60K XC40 RECHARGE? How a about something like Subaru wilderness Forester / Outback where you save about $25K to pump gas. I could be wrong but that is what came in to my mind.
Nice 👍
Like it..but no spare tire? Thats no good.
Lol, kind of hard to watch this thing struggle over 'that', no spare tyre, AWD with traction control via ABS does not = 'Shockingly awesome EV off-roader.'
oh it's such a miss. I'm very interested in a EV that can do rough roads to get to trailheads in wilderness. The Teslas just do not have ground clearance. Sadly this Volvo has horribly limited range. I like how the ModelY has 530km range as oem. I've ordered the Y, but will seriously consider investing in a coilover lifted suspension and wheels. I know that will hurt the range, but cant be as bad as this Volvo.
FWIW, real world range of Teslas are below that what the website advertises. The Subaru Solterra has 8.3 inches of ground clearance making it, from that perspective the most off-road worthy of the SUV/CUVs. Rivian easily wins the electric truck ground clearance game with 14.5 inches. Ford Lightening comes in at 8.9 inches.
We had a Jaguar I-Pace. It was impressive off-road, for a BEV, and CUV in general, and Jaguar don’t void your warranty if off-road use is determined, in fact they encouraged us to use it off-road since we lived in the foothills out in the country. We then moved further into the country and range became an issue. Now my wife drives a Wrangler Sahara 4xe. She has about 70-74% pure EV use. It was about 68% when we lived in the mountains, but a serious health issue forced us to move closer to the city, hence mire EV use only is possible. She was thinking about a Grand Cherokee 4xe, but then the price was just too ridiculous. She can afford it without any concerns, but just doesn’t feel the value is there. Too bad,,,, I was going to get the Wrangler 4xe when she was done!! Haha. I would like a Wrangler Rubicon 4xe, but I’m really a truck guy, or 2 door Wrangler fan. I’m not exactly a 4 door suv fan. If they release a 4xe Gladiator, I would get a Mojave version in a heartbeat!!
If you travel a lot, or are far from charging stations and have cold Canadian winters, PHEV is the way to go. Especially for us!!
You're trying to judge if the color is gray or blue with sunglasses on?!
Tires w/ no grip+6” ground clearance+passes off road course= off road course fail
Terrible wheel clearance in fender wells
The jack & tire iron is for us handy Swedes who like to swap summer/winter tires ourselves ;-)
Yes I swap to winters in November and back in April on my V60 Cross Country. It's awesome in snow, I especially love the heated wipers, steering wheel and seats.
Volvo needs to make their color pallet more vibrant. This color just doesn’t do it justice. Bring out bright metallic blue, Orange, yellow, lime green. This color just wants me to take more antidepressants
Being a Swedish brand, they are more about understated refinement and Stoic competence.
@@cypvh74 seems like they’re okay with being the boring brand then. I forget though, Polestar is where it’s at with the soul
Swedes don't do bright colors. Volvo did to a kind of bright yellow and red back in the 1990s. But mostly, they are subdued cars.
@@BIGJBIGEBIGC They're not boring. They're subdued and mature.
Looks gray to me....
I've been driving through worse terrain in a VW up! with 60 horses. So it would be weird if the Volvo could not do this.
why the hell would a sticker pack , help . i like my ev to not call attention to itself , ev's tend to antagonize some people in the community , why make your car a target for their rage.
The dual motor is just too expensive and the single can't handle the offroad like this does.
Hahahahahaha I’d love to meet the person that would buy this car and actually go off roading hahahahaha
I would like the new Chevy Silverado EV and go through all those obstacles that would be awesome to see
If I see one more "all black" interior I think I'm gonna SCREAM! PLEASE, at least give us a two-tone or a lighter color interior, so that when we drop the inevitable items between the seats, on the floor, etc., we'll have half a chance of ever finding them!!
Next year - interesting cloth option with the Inscription crystal shifter.
No spare tire and short range is a fail.
15:30 - Damn... I thought for sure you were going to get a blowout on the rear tire going over that rock because you didn't air down...
Def blue lol
60k?.... ugh
Or you could buy a tin can Subaru for 30K.
@@johngaudet6316 had one..I have a Volvo now
enleve tes lunetttes de soleil cest gris ahahah
It is a great car but the front end is nearly as ugly as the BMW EVs.
All these crossovers look the same lol, so boring
223 miles or range. Not buying a Chinese Volvo.
You guys with this "Chinese" crap should stop. Volvo is Swedish. The parent company is Chinese. Geely Holding is a great owner because they laid off of Volvo and actually expanded the Swedish content and engineering in the car. The XC40 isn't even built in China.
@@benjaminsmith2287 Exactly, the irony is that Volvo is probably more Swedish than it's been in some time (at least since when Ford owned them), since Geely started throwing money at them. Plus, Volvo has struck a deal to buy back shares/control from Geely. But no need for facts to get in the way of a good xenophobic meme.
You know ANY cars or trucks out there that don’t have parts sourced in another country? Everyone outsources parts made by independent businesses, regardless of the parentage of the manufacturer. Ukraine was building wiring harnesses for cars world-wide, and the EV battery business is dominated by Korean LG and SK Innovations. The Jaguar I-Pace is built in Austria by Magna-Steyr partnership and is owned by Indian Tata Motors. Magna was founded by Canadian Frank Stronach, and I believe Steyr is still owned by Mercedes. Geely owns a controlling share of Volvo, but the car was designed in Gotheburg and is built in Ghent in Belgium. Volvo is building a Europe-centric battery consortium called Northvolt, thanks to the cash from Geely.
Governments around the world do some pretty bad things, but let’s not assume everyone is complicit, and give people a chance to do the right thing. I believe Volvo is trying to do that so I am buying an XC40. Sorry if you don’t agree, but I wasn’t asking anyone’s permission, Jay.
I love my Volvo V60 CC made in Sweden and my next car will probably be a Volvo/ Polestar EV made in Belgium, Sweden, China or USA. 😘