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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I test drove the 2021 not the 2022 and was not impressed. It felt weak and underpowered on the freeway, so much so that it felt a little unsafe for the size. I’ve heard the 2022 is much better though. Also, the range of the 2021 was weak, something like 17 miles which is useless.

I ended up getting the BMW X5 45e which I love. It feels like a much better car. [/quote]

both SUVs have the same 0-60 mph (96 km/h) time of 5.3 seconds[/quote]

You mean the Volvo versus the BMW? That may be true but the BMW doesn’t feel underpowered to me on the freeway while the Volvo felt distinctly underpowered, at least the 2021 did. (That is important, my understanding is that the 2022 is a little different).

One interesting tidbit on that: the BMW won’t let you put the car into pure electric mode if you are drawing too much power. When I was test driving, I tried both cars in electric on the freeway. The BMW would not let me do it. The Volvo did, but I then had to push the accelerator literally to the floor to keep going and even then it was slowing down. I am surprised the Volvo let me switch to all-electric on the freeway. It is not all that relevant because nobody would normally do that, but I think the BMW has more thought into mode-switching in general. [/quote]

Sounds like you had the Volvo in the wrong mode, electric will make it accelerate sluggish as it reduces gas consumptions as much as possible. If you leave it in default it performs as well as the bmw, if you put it in power it will charge the batteries with gas so that it can keep it topped off to allow for extreme Tesla like acceleration that destroys all other SUVs except Tesla  Lambo and maybe the Porsche s [/quote]

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