On Wednesday, in Sweden at the debut of the refreshed 2025.5 XC90 the Volvo briefly teased the upcoming ES90 midsize sedan.
The teaser displayed a midsize sedan featuring a windshield rake that’s completely different from the gas-powered S90 sedan. The body style is a sedan, though the rear glass could possibly lift up like the Polestar 2, which would be similar fashion to the Audi A6 E-Tron Sportback.
In December Volvo announced the first “verification prototype” of a new model code-named V551 had been built. The new V551 is thought to be the electric counterpart of the gas-powered S90, which would bear the name ES90 in production. The verification prototype was built at Volvo’s plant in Luqiao, China.
The ES90 would be the sedan, or liftback, counterpart to the EX90 electric SUV. Originally the ES90 was expected to be in production by May. In 2022 a Volvo executive in Australia said Volvo would launch an electric midsize sedan by the end of 2024.
The ES90 is expected to be built on Volvo’s SPA2 platform, which is the same dedicated EV platform underpinning the EX90.That would put a battery of about 111-kwh under the ES90 and a choice of single-motor rear-wheel-drive or dual-motor all-wheel drive. Output might approach 500 hp.
SPA2 supports bidirectional charging and charging rates of up to 250 kw on a DC fast-charger. The EX90’s 111-kwh battery, which has a usable capacity of 107 kwh, could amount to a real world range of about 300 miles. The ES90 might have better aerodynamics that would enable the slipperier body style to go further on a charge.
Swedish outlet Teknikens Värld reported in 2023 that the ES90 will be 196.8 inches long with a 122-inch wheelbase. That would make the ES90 6.3 inches longer than the S90 and 1.6 inches longer than the S90L that later came to the U.S. for 2018.
