Volvo XC60 T8 Hybrid Polestar aims high - but falls a little short 

Volvo at vanguard of the drive for green
Volvo XC60 T8 Hybrid Polestar aims high - but falls a little short 

Volvo XC60 Recharge Plug-In Hybrid 

Volvo has proven itself to be a modern day master of carefully plotted public relations coups, not least of which was its stunning announcement in 2017 of the death of the internal combustion engine (ICE).

The all-encompassing and damning excoriation of that thing which, for the past 130 years or so, has been the cornerstone of the entire automotive manufacturing industry globally was a masterstroke of PR and gained the Sino-Swedish concern more column inches worldwide than had it claimed to have cracked the eternal conundrum of perpetual motion.

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