Volvo Creates A Few All-Electric C30 BEV Prototypes For The Real World

The Swedish automaker, Volvo, are currently working on a pure electric model called the C30 BEV. For those interested, BEV stands for Battery Electric Vehicle.

Volvo has already built a small number of these BEV models that will under-go testing by the company to evaluate how their will react in real-life conditions.

“The Volvo C30 is the first model we will try out with electric power. This car’s excellent properties in city traffic and its relatively low weight make it particularly suitable, since electric cars are primarily expected to be used in and around cities and for daily commuting,” says Lennart Stegland, Director of Volvo Cars Special Vehicles.

Volvo’s C30 BEV will have an electric motor pumping out power to the front wheels. The Swedish automaker will equip the car with 24kW Lithium-Ion batteries that can be charged through a standard wall socket.

Expect acceleration figures to be set at around 11 seconds, where the top speed will be 130km/h. The driving range will be 150km, which is estimated to be further than 90 percent of Europeans drive per day.

Over the next few years the company will focus on this, and they will then slowly but surely branch out towards all-electric vehicles.

“The consumer must feel that this type of car is attractive both to drive and own,” says Paul Gustavsson, Director of Electrification Strategy at Volvo Cars.

“In order to ensure this, we feel that electric cars will have to be as comfortable and safe and offer similar levels of performance as cars with other power sources. The learning from the C30 BEV project will help us to fulfill all these criteria and showcase Volvo’s determination to drive developments in the field of electrification.”

 

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