Volvo is happy to take DKK 1 million for the new EX90. But it is everything from all the details of an electric car that is worthy of the price tag. The brand copies the criticized VW solution.
The new Volvo EX90 costs from DKK 815,000 in Denmark. And the price can easily rise to over 1 million kroner. But now Volvo is being criticized for copying an extremely cheap VW part.
Namely the contact for the windows. Instead of four, individual switches for each side window, Volvo has copied Volkswagen's idea, where the driver must use one switch and two buttons to switch between each window.
The same trick is used by Volkswagen in the ID.4 model. And that can perhaps be excused in a car at that price. The Volkswagen ID.4 costs from DKK 335,000 in Denmark. But that must not happen in a car worth more than DKK 1 million.
Yet that's exactly what Volvo has done to save a few hands. The cheap trick has also been noticed by the first team of journalists who have had the car for testing.
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Several journalists call Volvo's unloading of the already expensive car downright stupid. However, the small amount of money that Volvo saves by making one switch and two buttons for all four windows can quickly gain momentum.
Despite the delays, the EX90 is full of so many errors that it will cost Volvo billions of kroner to correct them all. Customers who have pre-ordered a car also do not get all the features they were promised.
At least not at first. Now it turns out that the sister brand Polestar is affected by some of the same mistakes. The two brands build cars on a common platform. This means that cars that were otherwise ready for delivery must still be held back. Read more about it here .
Car brands that try to save, on the other hand, there is nothing new in it. In a price range that is far more palatable for motorists, Volkswagen has, for example, dropped gas dampers for the bonnet.
The Volkswagen Golf 8 has – unlike several of its predecessors – never had this kind of gas damper. Instead, Volkswagen makes do with a metal stick and a small hole for fastening in the bonnet itself.
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