VOLVO ES90

Swedish brand goes against the grain with an esoteric electric saloon

- RICHARD LANE

Volvo needs something to help it out of a fiscal rut, but the new ES90 is unlikely to be of much use. Imagine the most commercially questionable product today, given prevailing market sentiments. Right up there alongside an electric hypercar bearing the licensed, little-known branding of a reanimated marque is a premium electric vehicle that is neither a play-it-safe SUV nor a traditional saloon. That Volvo is not even trying to sell the £69,000 ES90 in the US, its largest market, is the cherry on top - the ES90 hails from Chengdu, where Volvo has been making cars since 2013, and massive American tariffs for China-built cars make it a nonstarter.