Volvo has teased the design of a brand new smaller electrical SUV that it confirmed on Tuesday might be U.S.-bound. 

The compact mannequin, to be referred to as EX30, might be revealed on June 7 and might be accessible that very same day for U.S. reservations, Volvo stated. 

The EX30 badge, which was beforehand confirmed as on the way in which, follows Volvo’s new naming construction for electrical SUVs began by its upcoming EX90 SUV, which might be produced in the U.S. and be delivered to American clients in early 2024. 

Volvo EX30 teaser

An early glimpse of the car means that its cues could carefully comply with these of the EX90, though there could also be a light-weight bar in entrance as an alternative of particular person typical headlights. To invest design-wise, it’d trace at an homage to the low-set forefront and hid headlamps of the Eighties-era Volvo 480.

Volvo hasn’t but confirmed the place the EX30 might be constructed, or to what diploma it may be made with underpinnings shared with its guardian, China’s Geely. It’s prone to be primarily based on Geely’s SEA platform that has already been revealed to underpin the upcoming Polestar 4.

Geely SEA (Sustainable Expertise Structure) modular EV platform

The model confirmed in 2021 that it plans to go all-electric by 2030, and it’s aiming to sort out sustainability in methods not each automaker will—with plans to go leather-free on all its vehicles by 2030, too. 

Volvo hasn’t sometimes introduced its smallest fashions to the U.S. prior to now—though the sporty C30 hatchback marked one exception in latest historical past. A C30 Electric was supplied beneath a restricted lease program in Europe a decade in the past, and it enabled a number of the early cold-weather testing prowess that went into present fashionable Volvo EVs together with the XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge.