Volvo XC90 and XC90 Recharge Plug-In Hybrid Wins at the 2023 IIHS TOP SAFETY PICK+ Award
The Volvo XC90 midsize luxury SUV has earned a 2023 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
The Volvo XC90 midsize luxury SUV has earned a 2023 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). This announcement comes after the IIHS strengthened the requirements for its TOP SAFETY PICK (TSP) and TOP SAFETY PICK+ (TSP+) awards.
With new and tougher criteria, qualifying cars are required to have better side crash protection, improved pedestrian crash prevention systems, and the elimination of subpar headlights. The biggest change to the criteria comes with the replacement of the original IIHS side crash test. The updated test involves 82% more energy and requires vehicles to earn an acceptable or good rating to qualify for TSP whereas a good rating is required for TSP+.
“The Volvo XC90 continues to prove, year after year, that it is among the safest vehicles on the road.”
Both mild hybrid (XC90) and plug-in hybrid (XC90 Recharge) versions of the XC90 earned a TSP+ award. In addition to award-winning safety, the XC90 Recharge offers up to 77 kilometres (NEDC) of all-electric driving in Pure mode. Volvo Cars has made sustainability as important as safety and has announced plans to sell only fully electric vehicles by 2030 and to aims to become carbon neutral by 2040.
It is Volvo Cars’ vision that no one should be seriously injured or killed in a new Volvo car and the company has put safety at the centre of everything it does.
