Volvo has launched extra teaser photographs of its electrical EM90 forward of its international debut on November 12.

Whilst Volvo has lengthy loved a name for family-friendly automobiles, it hasn’t ever introduced a other people mover (aka MPV or minivan) prior to.

With luxurious other people movers proving common in China, on the other hand, the Chinese language-owned Swedish logo is leaping into the fray.

The brand new other people mover has been advanced for the Chinese language marketplace, however the corporate says further markets can be mentioned at a later date.

Up entrance, there’s a big grille with an illuminated Volvo emblem and headlights comparable to the ones of the EX30 and EX90, whilst down again there are large T-shaped tail lighting fixtures. The EM90 additionally options twin sunroofs.

In spite of being shot via a curtain and partly obscured through an Eames chair, we will be able to make out a lot of the facet profile in a single teaser symbol.

It’s a bluff, boxy other people mover, similar to the 009 from Zeekr, every other logo underneath the Geely umbrella.

Whilst we haven’t observed the internal but, Volvo guarantees it’s going to be totally relaxed.

“The Volvo EM90 is our first ever absolutely electrical top rate MPV, and is designed so that you can profit from the time spent within the automobile, like a Scandinavian lounge at the transfer,” the corporate says in its press unencumber.

Secret agent footage captured in China and revealed through Automotive Information China in July published what seems to be a closely camouflaged model of the approaching other people mover.

Given this spied Volvo other people mover and the Zeekr 009 percentage a large number of their external styling, it’s anticipated their underpinnings would be the identical too.

The Zeekr 009 rides on Geely’s Sustainable Revel in Structure (SEA), and gives a number of 116kWh and 140kWh batteries provided through CATL.

Quoted vary figures are 702km and 822km, respectively, albeit each at the beneficiant CLTC take a look at cycle.

Without reference to the battery, the 009 produces 400kW of energy and 686Nm of torque from its dual-motor all-wheel power powertrain.

That provides it a claimed 0-100km/h time of simply 4.5 seconds – heady functionality for a boxy other people mover. It additionally has a rather slippery drag coefficient of 0.27.

All fashions experience on a “high-performance” air suspension set-up, with double wishbone entrance and multi-link rear suspension.

The 009 measures in at 5209mm lengthy, 2024mm huge, and 1848-1856mm tall, with a 3205mm wheelbase. That is virtually just like the brand new LDV MIFA and its electrical MIFA 9 counterpart.

It’s additionally reasonably longer than the Kia Carnival, whilst it has a correctly top rate internal with heated and ventilated captain’s chairs for the primary two rows, completed in Nappa leather-based and Ultrasuede upholstery.

Monitors within the Zeekr 009 come with a ten.25-inch unit forward of the driving force, a fifteen.4-inch touchscreen show, and a fifteen.6-inch adjustable central ceiling display screen. There also are 3.4-inch touchscreens at the sliding doorways.

The 009 additionally provides matrix LED headlights, twin sunroofs, energy sliding doorways, colour-adjustable ambient lights, and a 20-speaker Yamaha sound gadget.

Luxurious other people movers are a scorching commodity in Asia, in particular in China the place they’re regularly introduced in a luxurious four-seat configuration. Even the standard Honda Odyssey provides this kind of setup in that marketplace, entire with a partition that accommodates a TV.

Sumptuous other people movers are much less commonplace in Australia, however Lexus’ just lately published second-generation LM other people mover, in line with the Toyota Alphard, is due right here in December.

It’ll struggle the Mercedes-Benz V-Elegance, which is to be had with an electrical powertrain underneath the EQV nameplate.