New Volvo XC90 T8 Long Range PHEV has a MASSIVE 100-mile EV Range. Costs from £75,765.

The new Volvo XC90 Long Range Plug-in Hybrid goes on sale, promising 101 miles of EV range and prices from £75,765.

It’s been 12 years since the current Volvo XC90 arrived, and it should have been retired by now if Volvo’s ambition to replace it with the electric EX90 had come to fruition. But of course it hasn’t, as the great car-buying public has made it clear that it doesn’t want an EV-only future, and the now ancient XC90 massively outselling the new EX90, proving the point.

So rather than retiring the XC90 after the arrival of the EX90 EV, Volvo gave it something of a makeover a couple of years ago to keep it selling and keep it current.

The titivations for the XC90 were heavily influenced by the EX90, , with a new smooth grille, new slimmer headlights with tweaked Thor signature, new bonnet and wings, new front bumper, darkened taillights and new alloys.

Inside is EX90-influenced too, with a new dash with new air vents, a bigger 11.2? infotainment with improved resolution, new 360 split-screen camera and B&O Sound.

Powertrain options were limited to a Mild Hybrid Petrol or the T8 PHEV, promising an EV range of 44 miles. But now the T8 is being replaced by a new T8 Long Range model promising an electric range of 101 miles from a new 41.2kWh battery, which is almost certainly, for now at least, the longest EV range on a PHEV on sale in the UK.

Prices for the T8 Long Range start at £75,765 – around £3k more than the 44-mile T8 – and are available in Core, Plus, Plus Pro, Ultra and Ultra Pro trim levels, as well as Black Edition variants.