The first appearance of the Guangzhou Auto Show, the C40 won the title of "the most beautiful Volvo", that top of the C series of "surname" and pure electricity "new", can it become a young people's favorite Volvo? Let's find out.
Speaking of the Volvo C series, many people will think of the C70 unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in 1996, it is volvo launched the first coupe, although this car is eye-catching, and then launched a convertible version with active anti-churning, but due to sales reasons, the C70 did not escape the fate of discontinuation. During the reign of big brother C70, Volvo also launched the C30 compact sedan with avant-garde design, and the two-door design plus glass trunk door was its biggest highlight, but this car was as fateful as big brother and finally bid farewell to the stage of history.
I thought that Volvo's C series came to an end, but at last year's Guangzhou Auto Show, the C40 debuted with the Chinese, although this Volvo followed the surname of C70 and C30, but in essence, the C40 and its big brother and sister are completely different, because this is a pure electric coupe SUV. Therefore, Volvo's C may not mean a specific model, but represents the restart of the Volvo family. Today, we will look at this new pure electric Volvo through static experience, how new is it?
From the appearance point of view, Volvo C40 still has a lot of Volvo family design shadow, Quake headlights have been retained, but the function is stronger than before, intelligent pixel headlights blessing, so that its sense of science and technology has been improved a lot; the position of the traditional grille has been changed to a closed shape, but the overall shape is consistent with the fuel vehicle. The taillights are still vertical, but interestingly, the new car uses a slip-back roof design, so the taillights are extended according to the shape of the tail, which also makes the Volvo, which used to look well-behaved, a little more fresh.
The roof of the new car uses a whole piece of panoramic glass, and many people say, how to do this sun protection? Volvo has long thought about it, through the Low-E coating and PVC film sandwich, you can protect the sun and heat, as for whether the noise reduction will be bad, this also has to wait for us to really open the road to give you an objective evaluation.
Environmental protection is Volvo's consistent concept, the car is very clear, composite materials and sustainable materials mixed with environmentally friendly seats, not only to ensure comfort, from the body feeling, there is no peculiar smell; in order to make it more unique, the interior panel uses a new material, the official name is "Abiscu Aurora Back Trim", simply put, is composed of translucent three-layer panels and LED lights, at night, the light refracted by different panels will make the interior panel have a faint marine look, This design is different from the atmosphere created by the current popular light show.
Let's talk about the power, the C40 is a pure electric model, there are two-wheel drive version and four-wheel drive version, the two-wheel drive version of the electric motor maximum power of 170kW, the maximum torque of 330N·m, the official mileage is estimated at 550km. The four-wheel drive version has an electric motor power of 150kW in front of it and 150kW in the rear, a combined maximum output power of 300kW, a maximum output torque of 660N·m, and an official cruising range estimated at 530km. Charging up to 100kW DC fast charging, 10-80% of the power in 40 minutes to complete. Slow charging from 0 to 100% takes 8 hours, in line with the general needs of households, of course, static display can not feel its power performance, but from the previous experience of Volvo models, C40 should also be a model that is easier to get started.
Finally, to summarize the close contact with the C40, in short, as a brand of brand reputation of the new model, C40 or more can reflect volvo's sincerity, pre-priced 267,000 to 328,000 yuan, in this price range, luxury brand of pure electric products are not necessarily very competitive. Compared with the domestic pure electric models, although the cost performance is high, the brand influence cannot compete with it, so Volvo has taken a beautiful step. Once safe, with the current technology, maybe this volvo's C series can go more stable and longer.