A big seven-seater with luxury appointments and fuel consumption better than most hatchbacks? There's a lot to like about the XC90 Recharge Ultimate plug-in hybrid, even if it wears a price tag well above a hundred grand.

The XC90 is a large Swedish luxury SUV with seven seats and plenty of opulence as standard.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have noticed a sharp increase in the number of electric cars on the roads of Australia in 2023. Sales are up nearly 200 per cent and more than 80,000 new examples were sold in the first 11 months of the year (almost as many as hybrid vehicles).