Volvo’s PR division has been drip-dropping its EX30 compact SUV imagery alongside the patent division and web site design groups forward of its June seventh reveal in Milan, Italy. Head under for the most recent installment with some attention-grabbing inside photographs…

As you’ll count on from the identify, the EX30 takes many notable EX90 design components, together with entrance and rear pixel lighting, and places them in a smaller package deal.

The EX30 is a 4-door hatchback however harkens again to the small 3-door C30 hatchbacks of 2006-2013. Curiously, Volvo made a restricted run, compliance C30 EV known as the DRIVe from 2011-2013 that was offered to fleets in restricted numbers. The specs on that one have been a 24 kWh battery and a 93-mile vary. The EX30 must greater than double these numbers.

Volvo EX30 inside

Till at the moment, we’d not seen a lot of the EX30 inside, however Volvo supplied some much-needed aid forward of the worldwide reveal subsequent week. Under, you’ll be able to see a tall pill interface that can, after all, run on the quickly bettering Android Automotive, together with Google Assistant, however may also help wi-fi CarPlay. Additionally attention-grabbing: there is no such thing as a front-of-driver show, which might put it in the identical league as Tesla’s well-liked Mannequin 3/Y strains and can probably preserve costs down.

Lastly, we see that the dashboard seems to be fabricated from a noticed recyclable materials contributing to its greatest carbon footprint providing to this point.

Maybe most attention-grabbing is the middle console design, providing a neat method to offer a large basin for purses and laptop computer luggage, together with phone- and cup-holding configurations. Not solely does the slide-out drawer facilitate the entrance passenger’s gadgets, however there’s a again slide-out door, as nicely, for the rear passengers.

Premium sound at a decrease price

Volvo is neatly reducing prices and providing extra room whereas nonetheless providing premium high quality. As a substitute of door audio system and window switches, each have moved to the middle. The glove field is moved under the middle display for simple entry by each driver and passenger. This “broader precept of centralization” has many advantages.

The soundbar within the EX30, the primary of its sort, is impressed by dwelling audio design. It brings a number of audio system collectively into one soundbar and fills the complete cabin with premium sound. Once you select to mix it with the Harman Kardon high-end sound system, you’ll be able to take heed to your favourite music and podcasts in excellent audio high quality. The soundbar is a superb occasion of good design, by clustering audio system collectively inside one element and lowering the quantity of wiring and materials. At first you won’t even discover it, situated beneath the windshield and seamlessly built-in into the cockpit design. However without having for audio system within the doorways, we may give you much more cupboard space. In the identical vein, we’ve moved the window switches to the middle console, straightforward to succeed in for each driver and passenger.

Along with the EX30 and EX90, Volvo plans to introduce its first all-electric minivan inside a 12 months.

Electrek’s take:

With the Chevy Bolt being discontinued and Fiat and Mini not but providing first rate vary of their small EVs, the EX30 goes to be one of many solely small long-range EVs on supply when it goes on sale. Lots of people, together with myself, love small vehicles whatever the wider pattern in the direction of greater autos.

Extra attention-grabbing is that Volvo appears to be attempting to get this automobile’s value down the place it could possibly be a mass-market automobile. Sadly, it is going to be inbuilt China, which means it received’t be eligible for federal tax credit within the US. I’d nonetheless count on this to start out beneath $40,000, so I believe leasing – the place the $7500 credit score remains to be utilized – is perhaps a well-liked possibility.