[Director76]

It would be interesting to see what impact using the full 145hp would be on the battery depletion rate. Driving using full “power” (87hp!!!) to maintain motorway cruising speeds in pure now does use up the electrons pretty fast, I wonder how that balances with the larger battery and easier cruise potential.

Also, in the winter the battery will have to provide preheat, full cabin and battery conditioning heat since they’ve deleted the fuel preheater. That will be quite a high battery drain.

Overall it should make for a more useable PHEV undoubtedly and it’s just luck of the drawer if you get the upgrades you want or downgrades you don’t if you are tied to a vehicle replacement cycle. For us though our daily commute fits pretty perfectly into two charges per day with the current 11kwh battery, so practically, the difference might not have changed much had this been brought in with MY21.5 (tax aside £)

I think that COVID will have substantially delayed SPA2 XC90 mk iii - I’m not expecting there will be that many delivered and on the roads in the Uk when our current one goes back in Jan ‘24.

Hopefully just enough to have ironed out the first batch of software bugs!!

Result for those that dropped lucky in the refresh cycle. Looking forward to first feedback from those with experience of the outgoing T8 power train.
D76