Volvo on 15 September opened order books, in selected markets, for long-range plug-in hybrid versions of the XC60 and XC90. Volvo Car UK’s briefing calls them the company’s first long-range plug-in hybrids for Europe and America. They are not battery-electric SUVs: a petrol engine remains, and they belong on the plug-in hybrid list, not on All EVs.
Range depends on the test cycle, and the two figures should not be mixed. Volvo Car UK quotes up to 124 miles of electric running for the XC60 and 99 miles for the XC90. Volvo’s South Africa newsroom prints the same claim in kilometres — 200 km and 160 km. For the United States, The Verge, Charged EVs, and The Drive all report preliminary EPA estimates of 78 miles (XC60) and 73 miles (XC90). Those US numbers are still labelled preliminary. Volvo’s own US consumer pages for the cars on sale today still show 35 and 32 miles EPA for the current T8s; we are not treating the 78 / 73 pair as a certified window sticker until the EPA file is public.
The pack is the reason the electric range jumps. The Verge and Charged EVs both describe a floor-mounted battery of 41.2 kWh (37.9 kWh usable) shared by the two SUVs, replacing the roughly 18.8 kWh pack on the T8s already in the catalogue. Charged EVs, writing from Volvo’s London briefing, says the XC60 T8 still uses a J1772 Level 2 inlet, quotes about 5.7 hours for a 0–100% charge on a Level 2 cord, and says Volvo did not add DC fast charging or switch to NACS in this mid-cycle update. We have not seen a competing manufacturer sheet that contradicts that charging story. Combined-system horsepower does conflict in the trade press — The Drive says 455 hp is unchanged; Charged EVs quotes 339 hp — so that number is not treated as confirmed here.
GetEVCar already lists the cars buyers can shop today. The Volvo XC60 T8 (2026) is a five-seat SUV plug-in hybrid, United Kingdom and United States Available, 18.8 kWh, about 79 km electric on WLTP. The Volvo XC90 T8 (2026) is the seven-seat sibling on the same generation pack, UK and US Available, about 69 km electric WLTP. Those pages are the outgoing 18.8 kWh T8s. The long-range SKUs now have their own cards: the Volvo XC60 T8 Long Range (2028) (37.9 kWh usable, up to 200 km electric) and the Volvo XC90 T8 Long Range (2028) (37.9 kWh usable, up to 160 km electric), both UK and US Announced. Volvo has not published a US or UK list price for the long-range pack, so those 2028 pages stay announced rather than a shoppable MSRP. Shoppers comparing Volvo in those markets should start on the Volvo hub, plus the US and UK market pages. The Emirates are not in Volvo’s 15 September launch copy; we are not claiming a UAE on-sale date.
Production of the updated XC60 and XC90 is due later this autumn, with US dealers in early 2027, according to Volvo’s UK/SA briefings and Charged EVs. Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo’s president and CEO, said the long-range plug-ins, together with the all-electric EX60, give “a path to full electrification for every customer.” The battery-electric counterpart on GetEVCar is the Volvo EX60 (2026). The three-row BEV sibling is the EX90 Twin Motor (2026), not an XC90 with the engine deleted. Charged EVs also reported that Volvo USA currently has no BEV priced under the EX60 after pulling the EX30 and EX40 from that market. That is a US lineup note, not a global deletion: the EX30 (2025) and EX40 (2025) remain on this directory for other markets.
What we are not claiming: that 78 or 73 miles is a finished US window sticker; that 124 / 99 UK miles equal the US EPA pair; that a US or UK long-range T8 price exists; that the long-range pack is on sale in the UAE; or that either SUV is a battery-electric car. IAA Transportation trucks shown this week (BYD’s ETT 44, Tesla’s European Semi) sit outside the passenger catalogues. Denza’s N8L battery-electric SUV in China was already logged yesterday.
