XC20 - new small car confirmed

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Originally Posted by anotherv60

The range thing issue is a little bit of apples and oranges. Kia's approach is to enable forward motion regardless of performance, what I mean by that is, the last few miles of range can only be achieved at 15-20mph. Volvo as I understand hasn't allowed that so the car will stop when it can no longer travel at 60mph. This means the range is much lower. In addition the easiest way to cheat the current tests is to fiddle the remaining battery percentage (this isn't something that can be directly measured, you can only measure voltage / current), that way if you over estimate the battery % on the EPA or WLTP then you will get a larger estimated range - as they simply look at battery life left at end of cycle and extrapolate. Volvo haven't cottoned on to this yet.

Any citations on that? Bjorn Nylands reviews back up the Kia efficiency and confirm just how badly Polestar have done. Obviously it's still early days for Polestar / Volvo and they might be able to eek out some extra efficiency in BMS updates but it isn't great at the moment. The pricing for the BEV XC40 is also crazy, they won't sell many at that price.