Electric car range anxiety may be overstated—few drivers want to travel 500 miles without stopping—but it remains a psychological hurdle to EV adoption. That barrier could soon disappear. Launched for 2026, the new Volvo EX60 offers up to 503.3 miles of WLTP range, and it is among several models arriving this year with similarly long endurance.
The EX60 is the first Volvo built on the all-new SPA3 platform. “It is all new,” says Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson. “It’s very different from SPA2. There is no compromise.” SPA3 is a dedicated electric architecture with no combustion option and introduces innovations such as mega casting, replacing more than 100 bolted components with a single part to reduce weight and costs.
It is also Volvo’s first model to use cell-to-body battery technology, where the battery pack is a structural element of the chassis. “The aluminium battery box is bolted underneath the chassis to stiffen up everything so it’s part of the load-carrying structure, making it much lighter,” Samuelsson explains.
