The slow trickle of information regarding the upcoming Volvo XC90 continues ahead of its debut next month, with the company releasing details about the seven-seater SUV’s powertrains. Headlining the engine lineup will be a plug-in hybrid that Volvo says will make the XC90 the “most powerful and cleanest SUV.”
The hybrid will wear “T8” and “Twin Engine” badges and features a 2.0 litre supercharged and turbocharged Drive-E four-cylinder petrol engine powering the front wheels and an 60 kW (80 hp) electric motor driving the rear wheels. Together, the tag team will develop around 400 hp and 640 Nm and will be capable of an all-electric range of around 40 km as well as carbon dioxide emissions of around 80 grams per kilometre.
“There are no compromises when you drive an all-new XC90,” said Volvo senior vice president of research and development, Peter Mertens. “In the past you could either have power or low CO2 emissions. But with the all-new XC90 you can have both.”
Volvo also says that its new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) was built to be far more flexible than before and was designed to accommodate electrification technologies from the start, allowing the T8 hybrid to pack a large enough battery pack without compromising on passenger or luggage space.
Elsewhere in the range, there will also be D5 twin-turbo diesel engine that promises 225 hp, 470 Nm and fuel consumption of around 6.0 litres per 100 km (the latter of which Volvo claims is best-in-class) and a D4 turbodiesel developing 190 hp and 400 Nm and consuming around 5.0 litres of fuel per 100 km. Also on offer will be a T6 supercharged petrol mill that will produce 316 hp and 400 Nm.
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Take away the electric motors and you’re getting 320hp…..Thats 20hp more than you get from a Golf R, WRX STI and soon-to-be-discontinued Evo X, all of them from a 2.0l Turbocharge inline-4. And thats just 40hp less than the 2.0l record holding monster in the CLA/A45 AMG. Honestly, in any case its a monster of an engine in a family SUV?
The last Volvo XC90 has a little gem of a V8, tune by Yamaha(which mind you, was the genius behind the LFA awesome V10)it continue to see service in what I consider as the best Supercar in the 21st century, the Noble M600. Wonder is this also tune by Yamaha…
Combined hp ratings tend to be less than the sum of it’s parts. Why doesn’t Volvo say how much the engine really has?
……features a 2.0 litre supercharged and turbocharged Drive-E four-cylinder petrol engine powering the front wheels and an 60 kW (80 hp) electric motor driving the rear wheels. Together, the tag team will develop around 400 hp and 640 Nm……
Well basically it says the Electric Motor gives 80hp and the combine output is 400hp.
So simple maths 400 – 80 = 320, so 320hp
I think kadajawi means that the engine could give more than 320hp, say 340hp.
When combined with the 80hp electric motor, the total combined is 400hp instead of 420hp.
High chance this engine cant run using our fuel.or probably get detuned,with lot of hp reduction
I wonder if there is any more room for higher states of tune on this engine. Usually manufacturers don’t push the engine to the limit of the engine’s capacity but it makes you wonder how much they can actually squeeze out of this 2.0L I4 block.
Read somewhere that tuners pushed the Evo X’s 2.0L to around 800hp. Correct me if I’m wrong. That doesn’t mean this Volvo Drive-E engine can be pushed the same way, though.
This is in a family SUV, and also one of the safest cars on the road….
I love the new Volvo a lot. Just thinking on how nice the XC90 will be… it’s amazing. Hats off to Volvo.
Agreed. They’re becoming more and more impressive with each update.
Volvo has just given the famous movie quote a new meaning. “With great power comes great responsibility ”
Thumbs all the way up , Volvo!
T4 naturally aspirated, unlikely to be found in the xc90, only smaller models..
T5 turbocharged
T6 turbocharged + supercharged
T8 turbocharged + supercharged + electric motor
Volvo is on a roll….putting chinese money to good use
T4 are NA ?????? bro, if know nothing about Volvo then don’t showoff that u sound like knowing …it make you look stupid !!!!!
T4 engine spec…
Engine specifications 1.6 GTDi T4:
Engine type: 4-cylinder petrol turbo
Displacement: 1595 cm3
Bore: 79.0 mm
Stroke: 81.4 mm
Compression ratio: 10.0:1
Valves per cylinder: 4
Camshafts: DOHC
Max power output: 132 kW (180 hp) / 5500 rpm
Max torque: 240 Nm / 1600-5000 rpm, 270 Nm for brief overboost
and also with the new E drive engine, the T5 are also twin charger as well..
Sorry… is DriveE not Edrive…otak tengah panas
The current ford sourced engine is 1.6 turbocharged, trimmed t4
Im talking bout the new driveE family…
You can look for the article here about volvo’s VEA AND i-Art techonology
T4 are NA ????????????????????
T$ spec……….
Engine specifications 1.6 GTDi T4:
Engine type: 4-cylinder petrol turbo
Displacement: 1595 cm3
Bore: 79.0 mm
Stroke: 81.4 mm
Compression ratio: 10.0:1
Valves per cylinder: 4
Camshafts: DOHC
Max power output: 132 kW (180 hp) / 5500 rpm
Max torque: 240 Nm / 1600-5000 rpm, 270 Nm for brief overboost