Uh oh, seems like the BMW iX3 and its impressive 500 miles of range have a bit of competition already – Volvo has announced that its new EX60 SUV will offer 503 miles of range from a full battery. 

The BMW iX3 is a highly rated car – we named it our Car of the Year for 2026, so the new Volvo will have to work hard to beat it overall. We don’t actually have too many details ahead of the car being fully revealed on 21 January, but Volvo has begun its PR drip feed of details to whet our appetites. 

And what we’ve heard so far is promising – if the EX60 is using the 107kWh battery from its larger EX90 sibling then it’s beating the BMW with a marginally smaller battery than the iX3’s 108.7kWh effort. It’s not much, but every little helps as Mr Tesco once meaninglessly declared. 

It’ll be a fast car to top up as well – Volvo says that the EX60 can add 224 miles of range in just 10 minutes on a 400kW charger. At 1,344 miles an hour that’s faster than Concorde. And you can hose in electricity with abandon – the battery comes with a 10-year warranty. 

“The EX60 is designed to be a gamechanger," says Volvo’s tech chief Anders Bell. "With our new electric vehicle architecture, we directly address the main worries that customers have when considering a switch to a fully electric car. The result is class-leading range and fast charging speeds, marking the end of range anxiety.”

The Swedish carmaker says that it’s used lots of novel approaches to try and maximise the efficiency of the EX60 SUV – the battery is integrated into the structure of the car, for instance, to save the weight of a dedicated housing. It’s an approach that Bugatti has also used on its new Tourbillon plug-in hypercar, which is likely where the similarities between those cars begin and end. 

​Volvo also says that the EX60 is the first car it’s built using a process it calls ‘mega casting’, where it replaces hundreds of smaller parts with a ‘single, high-precision casting’. This technique cuts down on weight, which has a knock on effect of improving the range. 

Excited about the new EX60? We’ll have all the details in just under two weeks. Meanwhile, you can read about all the other new cars that are arriving in 2026 here. 

Hopefully Volvo will reveal the car somewhere slightly less dusty, we can hardly see anything in these pictures so far