The New Volvo ES90: A Huge Electrical Automotive with a Small Carbon Footprint

Final Up to date on: eleventh July 2025, 12:07 am

With the brand new and absolutely electrical ES90, which begins manufacturing later this summer time and is produced with climate-neutral power, Volvo Vehicles launches a automobile designed with sustainability in thoughts. That is mirrored by the brand new Life Cycle Evaluation (LCA) report for the ES90, which describes which supplies and processes contribute to the automobile’s carbon footprint over its life cycle.

The full carbon footprint of the ES90 is 31 tonnes when utilizing a European power combine to cost it. When utilizing wind power to cost the ES90, that determine falls to 26 tonnes. With a European power combine, the ES90’s footprint is roughly 50 per cent decrease than the Volvo S90 delicate hybrid variant, and 30 per cent decrease than a plug-in hybrid S90. It’s also decrease than the EX40 and EC40.

This implies the ES90 has one of many lowest carbon footprints of any Volvo automobile up to now. It additionally demonstrates that absolutely electrical vehicles are a good selection each for purchasers and for the local weather.

The third-party verified LCA report identifies the important thing contributing supplies and processes to the automobile’s carbon footprint. Centered on greenhouse fuel emissions, the report covers the automobile’s life cycle, beginning with the extraction and refining of uncooked supplies and ending with the automobile’s end-of-life.

“We go above and past present laws and have clear ambitions as a result of that’s necessary to us,” says Vanessa Butani, head of world sustainability at Volvo Vehicles. “We purpose to realize net-zero greenhouse fuel emissions by 2040, and our ambition to be a pacesetter in electrification is one step in that path. The ES90 represents our holistic strategy to sustainability, together with the round economic system, climate-neutral manufacturing and accountable enterprise.”

A holistic strategy past what’s required 

When it launched its first absolutely electrical automobile in 2019, Volvo Vehicles was the primary automobile maker that pledged to launch LCA studies for all its international absolutely electrical fashions. By publicly issuing the studies, the corporate goals to assist clients make knowledgeable selections when selecting their subsequent electrical automobile. It has since issued LCA studies for 5 fashions: the Volvo EX40, EC40, EX30, EX90 and now the ES90.

Along with being a totally electrical automobile with zero tailpipe emissions, the ES90 has been designed with a holistic strategy in the direction of sustainability. For instance, it’s the first Volvo automobile outfitted with the corporate’s new 800-volt electrical system. This creates advantages by way of charging and power effectivity, because of lighter elements that cut back the automobile’s total weight. The automobile’s design additionally helps to enhance effectivity and delivers a drag coefficient of 0.25, the most effective in Volvo Vehicles historical past.

The ES90 is constructed with roughly 29 per cent recycled aluminium, 18 per cent recycled metal, in addition to 16 per cent recycled polymers and bio-based supplies similar to actual, FSC-certified wooden within the cabin. Inside, clients can decide a Nordico upholstery choice comprised of recycled materials similar to PET bottles and bio-attributed materials. The ES90 additionally comes with Volvo Vehicles’ world-first battery passport, based mostly on blockchain expertise that permits the corporate to trace the origin of uncooked supplies and the general well being of the battery.

The primary customer-bound ES90 will roll off the manufacturing line this summer time. It’s out there for order now in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, with different markets added later this 12 months and in 2026. For extra particulars, test the Volvo Vehicles webpage.

Volvo Vehicles in 2024 
For the complete 12 months 2024, Volvo Automotive Group recorded a record-breaking core working revenue of SEK 27 billion. Income in 2024 amounted to an all-time excessive of SEK 400.2 billion, whereas international gross sales reached a document 763,389 vehicles. 

About Volvo Automotive Group 
Volvo Vehicles was based in 1927. Right now, it is without doubt one of the most well-known and revered automobile manufacturers on the planet with gross sales to clients in additional than 100 international locations. Volvo Vehicles is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm trade, the place it’s traded beneath the ticker “VOLCAR B”.

“For all times. To offer folks the liberty to maneuver in a private, sustainable and protected method.” This function is mirrored in Volvo Vehicles’ ambition to develop into a totally electrical automobile maker and in its dedication to an ongoing discount of its carbon footprint, with the ambition to realize net-zero greenhouse fuel emissions by 2040.

As of December 2024, Volvo Vehicles employed roughly 42,600 full-time workers. Volvo Vehicles’ head workplace, product growth, advertising and marketing and administration features are primarily positioned in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Vehicles’ manufacturing crops are positioned in Gothenburg, Ghent (Belgium), South Carolina (US), Chengdu, Daqing and Taizhou (China). The corporate additionally has R&D and design centres in Gothenburg and Shanghai (China).