2024 Volvo C40 Recharge Is A Swede EV With Added Range 

As a C40 owner, I have found the rear visibility to not be an issue. I do, however, keep the rear seat headrests folded down which gives me additional visibility. But really with 402 hp., I don't need to look behind me too much, lol. Great review, Tom! Happy holidays!

I have the C40 Twin Ultimate. The ride, comfort, traction are top notch. The navigation that shows your battery level at time of arrival is spot on. It’s simplistic luxury is top notch.

Many people complain about the simplicity of the screen, It’s just find, it’s not a TV.

Thanks for all of the great videos over the years, Tom.

Really appreciate you talking about charging in your EV reviews. I have an EV and they are great but you gotta know what you are getting into.

I would certainly test drive the Volvo C40 if I was looking for a new vehicle at this price point. I find the styling, both inside and out, to be quite pleasing. As always, great video Tom!

Tom another great review. Excellent presentation of the stats. Loved the google talk. Still waiting for 400+mile range....please.

If you have an icy on the job injury, easy peasy, just call you boss. Errrr, wait, never-mind, Boss. Great job as usual on the comprehensive review.

8:51 Thanks for the charging etiquette lesson 😊 More people driving EVs is great, but we do need to realize how it's different from pumping gas

After several updates my 2022 C40 range is now 225 max range but I’m in SoCal - charging is SLOW compared to my EV6 but performance is outrageously fun!

Thanks for your output this last year. Looking forward to seeing what you give us next year. In the meantime, have a wonderful Christmas.

Hey Tom, I’m surprised about the fast charging challenges. There’s a bunch of 150-350kW stations in NW Seattle, especially with all those new EVgo stations from Interbay up to Holman Rd. Thanks for all your hard work on these shoots!

Beautiful car. Got to see one of these parked today while working... next to a Lamborghini Urus o.o Oddly enough, really didn't care for the Urus much, front end was super busy.

Tom, I don't think most EV drivers have heard about EV etiquette. I took a 1200 mile (round trip) journey in my 2022 XC40 Recharge and exclusively used EA stations from SF to Palm Desert and back with an overnight hotel stop each way. I was unable to get AC charging at one hotel en route but got it at the other ($40 Valet fee ensured I got a full battery in the morning). I had to wait at three different EA sites (with only 4 stations each) because BMW and Mercedes drivers were charging (for free, they told me) to nearly 100%!!! They said they needed the range to avoid a stop on the way to their next destination. I was at a local EA site at a mall yesterday (6 stalls) where 5 of the 6 spots were taken up by cars all getting free juice, with most above 90% and the 6th was in use by a Polestar 2 driver charging to 99% and paying for it. In conclusion, $1 (maybe $2 or $5)/minute idle fees and similar per minute dwell time fees above 80% SoC at a busy station are the only way to convince people to stop hogging DCFCs. It seems EV etiquette is great idea for those who don't own EVs.

8:55 Nice that you point out , 80% soc Thanks for a great video, even if I drive Polestar 2 LRSM 2023😉

Thanks for your personal review of this car. I recognise some of myself in you. 👍🏻

Tom, you kept waking up my bedside Google device. I got a long sermon on how to keep my hands warm.

Consistenty excellent!!!!!!

Thanks!

Hello Tom, thanks for your good report! It seems like vi in Norway still have among the best prices on new evs, also after the new taxes on evs from 1.January 2023. But we have among the worlds highest taxes on vehicles with combastion engines, also for plugin hybrids driving 99 % emmission free. And from 2025 the government have told that we will get sky high taxes on both phevs and combastion engine cars. This makes it difficult for a lot of people living on the country side outside the cities, both for their own car needs, and also because most service professions have to use cars like Land Cruiser and smaller pickup trucks. I have waited for years for a zero-emmission vehicle for my job. Five years ago I paid equivalent with aprox 70.000 US Dollar for a new 2018 working model Land Cruiser 150 with9 2 seats, with 5 seats the price in 2018 was aprox 120.000 US Dollar. In the US the new 5 seater 2024 model LC will have a price at aprox 55.000 US Dollar. Here the 2 seater working model already now will be at least at 130.000 US Dollar, and with the sky high taxes promised for 2025 a 2 seater working model will be at aprox 150.000 US Dollar, aprox 2,7 times more than the 5 seater LC in the US. Many including me have waited for emmission free working vehicles, but we know that Rome wasn't built in one day, and the manufactorers must prioritice profitable products to be able to change all their manufactoring plants for emmission free vehicles. I'm sorry that not all politicans gave understood that. We have a few politicans without any limits. In my job with remediation of invironmental destructions of course I have seen the importence of the emissions. But these politicans are not able to see the hole picture there this also will increase the cost for remediation invironmental danages,mandag a lot others that will rice a lot of prices.

Not only fit the right tires for the conditions, also put the correct shoes on!

I’ve been experiencing so many issues with my 2023 XC40 Recharge… I don’t even know what to do anymore as the dealerships are not willing to help. There’s no lemon law since I’m in Canada

It's Chinese, but it is brilliant. That's from an owner of Tesla S, Rivian R1T & R1S and Audi E-tron GT. My XC40 is the most fun city car to drive of them all!

I really wanted the C40 after test driving because of the front cabin, driving feel, and gorgeous looks but the deal breaker for me was the lack of reliable charging infrastructure (as compared to Tesla) and the cramped (to me) backseats. Driving around a family of four and the kids said backrests in the back were too upright.

I wonder the range will be when Its -25 below zero here in Ontario, Canada.

Congratulations on your daughter's engagement, Tom! I'm hoping you'll do a review of the new Honda Pilot soon...

This is neat car, but the lack of a sunshade diminishes its appeal in the sunbelt.

Nice car . Nice vid!

Very very nice but way too pricey compared to other offerings.

Please stop saying 'hey Google' !!!! Our devices are going crazy!! Other than that; another first class review.

Nice job Tom. This is a nice vehicle. It does seem like it might be a bit expensive but only by a few thousand. I think my wife would love it!

Bunko EV architecture + premium pricing = no thanks. Nice review though!

At this price, just get a Polestar 2? Goes up to 350kW and looks better imo.

To those haters who only want to point out that a Chinese company owns Volvo consider this: FORD chose to sell Volvo to a Chinese company rather than a consortium of ex Volvo people in Europe.

We just went solar PV on the house (no batteries) and are looking at an EV in maybe 18 months…

I want the EX30!

Love the video and excellent quality. Small favor! Can you please bleep out the Hey.."Google" ... it triggered all my google devices in the house and switched my input on my TV so I lost my video! LOL funny but... not really.

Hello Tom, long time watcher, first time commenter (lol!) Can you and some other reviewers please dial back the coverage of brands like Volvo to something appropriately scaled to their actual contribution to the marketplace, be it sales numbers or innovation.. it seems clear that disproportionate numbers of press cars and/or events are (successfully) buying them coverage.. Without being specific to this channel, Audi is another one that comes to mind... I get a low volume sports or luxury car is fun for many to read about and likely deserves coverage based on aspirations alone. A Lucid Air or Rivian a curiousity at a minimum and I for one at cherish your reviews of this kind for giving me the texture and flavor of a rare product I likely won't lie hands on for some time... Volvo... well....I doubt there a many aspirational buyers outside its dedicated and miniscule fan base .. too much time in a college town, Vermont, or "earthy" places in the nation might distort the chance that most Americans actually have of spotting a current model in the wild! Take care and honor your viewer metrics! ♥️♥️♥️

Volvo hiding radar/adapitve cruise in the top trim is really shady. They won't even let you option it for $500-1000. Radar cruise had become a standard feature on Toyotas and many other brands.

The lease on my 22 C40 is up early 2025, I am torn between getting an updated C40 or the EX30.

Why are the fog lights on your car coming on and off @ 4:57 and @ 5:36 as you turn? Is this supposed to do that or are they cornering lights not fog lights?

Liked this review, for me its a size that suits me but its much too expensive for the range.

I'm concerned of winter in Sweden with -20 celcius with the range...

Wait, you actually have and use a twin for the back seat shots? I always thought that was just editing.

Good review, I did a search on your channel for a Tesla but turned up nothing, any reason why?

As the Volvo V90 user I would like to change second car for electric one. I have many issues with V90 like no sound, system needs restarts, LTE connections issues. Blue tooth issues. Is it normal in Volvo, do you have always such problems ? C40 looks really nice but these issues upset me every time.

13:39 WAIT, THAT'S HOW IT IS STOWED?! That was new.

I’d like to see you put a spreadsheet together comparing the SUV EV models with your impressions. Also would like to see you do a current Tesla Model Y driven review.

The only SUV’s I have any interest in watching a review of are EV’s and hybrids….they are more likely to have new technology, and approach to ‘motoring’…same with pickup trucks…..electrics/hybrids only….otherwise, meh on the latest Tundra, or Tahoe….

Seems adequate.

A lot of money.

Having loved my C30, this just is too ugly and bulky to me. The EX30 looks a bit better, but their UI choices in the interior would just make me go insane... so I won't be returning to Volvo yet...

Other than design and perhaps Google, not sure why you would get this over a model Y

You can't tell me to watch your videos on my 4K TV, which is a Google TV and then activate it twice and then have me listen to the same thing for the Mayo clinic about cold hands that you're playing on the video

no capacitive steering wheel :-(

No rear wiper is a deal breaker for me. So is poor (rear) visibility.

c40 for $60K......i'd buy the Rav4 PRIME! or a TUNDRA!

I love how deluded this guy is about charging etiquette. The station either enforces the rule or there there are no rules. Plenty of folks couldn’t care less and given there are no consequences, can you blame them? Also if it’s a paid station then they can be there as long as they want. Idle fees still means paying for a spot.

but this car is owned by Chyna not Swede :(

nott even 300 miles. Sad.

How much to replace the battery ? The only question people want to know

One of these days, EV's will charge in the time it takes to fill a tank of gas...just wishing.

For some reason it looks like a scion chr

Swedish or Chinese?

First

I don't know how this car can compete against the Tesla Model Y.

I thought Volvo was Chinese now...

Meh, nothing about it is impressive

It's not a Swede EV, Volvo is owned by China.

Thanks!