Volvo Certifies 330 Miles on 20- and 21-Inch Wheels. Strike the 22s.

Volvo Car USA has EPA certification for the 2027 EX60 P10 AWD at an EPA-estimated up to 330 miles on 20-inch and 21-inch wheels. Volvo says that beats its earlier estimates and is the longest electric range of any Volvo sold here to date. Then it printed the rest of the table, under a heading Volvo wrote itself: "The small print." The same car on 22-inch wheels, EPA-estimated: up to 312 miles.

Eighteen certified miles, for an inch of rim. The demand, filed now: strike the 22-inch wheel from the EX60 order sheet. If Volvo will not, the buyer who ticks it fills out a form first. One field for the 18 miles, one for the party receiving them. The party receiving them is the eastern hellbender.

Grant the hard part. The EX60 is the first car on Volvo's new SPA3 architecture, with an 800-volt electrical system, and that is a company solving physics. Then it put the payoff on a styling menu and let the buyer hand it back. The failure is not engineering so much as menu design.

Eighteen miles is about 5 percent of the 20- and 21-inch car's certified range. The same trade repeats one variant down: EX60 P6, EPA-estimated up to 307 miles on 20-inch and 21-inch wheels, up to 295 miles on 22-inch wheels. Now the shopper on the configurator at 11 at night, clicking the 22s because they fill the arch.

I ordered my car with the smallest battery on the configurator and had the air conditioning taken out in 2024, and the July commute is clarifying. Anyone who hands back 18 certified miles so a wheel looks better parked is not serious about the hellbender. Hank will call this a war on wheels, which is closer than he knows.

Volvo's own table, last line: EX60 P10 AWD, 22-inch wheels, EPA-estimated up to 312 miles.