Dear users of the Emergency Plug,

A video is currently circulating showing the Volvo V60 not responding to the Emergency Plug as expected during an exercise. We would like to inform you that this problem is known to us, and that we are currently in discussions with Volvo and the RDW.

Volvo has indicated that the mentioned Volvo V60 models (-2017) are too old to make any changes to them. The RDW has not made a statement on this issue.

This concerns the Volvo V60  untill 2017, of which about 10,000 units were sold in the Netherlands between these years. This constitutes a small percentage of the total 715,000 plug-in cars sold in the Netherlands until August 2024. The 2018 version of this model is a newer version that does respond correctly to the Emergency Plug and is R100 compliant.

Total Safety Solutions conducts ongoing testing on all plug-in cars in the Netherlands and abroad. So far, the Volvo V60 (-2017) is the only car in the Netherlands and Europe that does not comply with the R100 regulation.

We hope to have informed you sufficiently with this. Should it be the case that there are other models that do not comply with the R100 regulation, we will of course inform you of this in good time.