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electric SUV at Spoot: Spotted Early is a file of 4 stories. The newest of them: “Volvo's electric EX60 borrows leaves for its seats and a forest for its soul”, “Opel's low wagon dares the SUV to explain its own height”, and “Bentley's first EV keeps the cabin, calls in musicians to fake the V8”. Volvo's electric EX60 borrows leaves for its seats and a forest for its soul. Opel's low wagon doesn't just roll into the Paris Motor Show, it sidles up to the SUV, looks it in the grille, and asks, *why are you so tall?* For years, American roads have been a sea of high-riding crossovers and… Spoot: Spotted Early New things, caught while they're still new and a little weird. Spoot finds fresh gadgets, clever inventions, crowdfunding campaigns,… The list below is every electric SUV story on Spoot: Spotted Early, newest first.
Volvo's electric EX60 borrows leaves for its seats and a forest for its soul
Volvo's electric EX60 borrows leaves for its seats and a forest for its soul. Seasonal color studies informed the interior, which projects leaves directly onto the seating surfaces. That is the kind of detail that makes you stop scrolling and actually look. The car was driven to Russell Wright's modernist woodland home at Manitoga, which feels like the only appropriate place to land something this deliberately rooted in nature. It is not just green because it is electric. It is green because someone asked what a car would look like if it remembered it came from trees. The mycelium disposable camera we covered recently had a similar instinct, design that acknowledges it belongs to the physical world.
Opel's low wagon dares the SUV to explain its own height
Opel's low wagon doesn't just roll into the Paris Motor Show, it sidles up to the SUV, looks it in the grille, and asks, *why are you so tall?* For years, American roads have been a sea of high-riding crossovers and three-row behemoths, the default family hauler that somehow needs a step ladder to load groceries. This concept car, making its debut at Paris 2026, is a quiet rebellion. It's a station wagon that remembers when cars were long, low, and aerodynamic instead of pretending to climb rocks on the way to school. The razor clam here is the height itself, or the lack of it. Opel is daring the SUV to justify its own elevation. It's the same restless energy that made Fiat's Multiplay concept swap a back seat for a flatbed.
Bentley's first EV keeps the cabin, calls in musicians to fake the V8
Bentley's first EV keeps the cabin intact, then hands the engine note to a bunch of musicians who've been asked to fake a V8. That's the razor clam here. While every other electric car chases silence or synth whooshes, Bentley is wondering what a luxury car should sound like when there's no combustion to lean on. The answer, apparently, is a carefully composed performance. It's a clever pivot, and it fits the brand's long proportions and tactile cabin like a tailored glove. But here's the gently skeptical part: a recorded growl is still a recording. Does it feel like a Bentley when the pedal goes down? That's the question worth circling back to.
Bentley's first EV is its fastest ever, and it looks like nothing else
Bentley finally let the covers slip off its first electric car back in July, and now we can actually see the thing. It's the fastest Bentley ever, which is a wild flex for a brand known more for wood veneer and wafting than for scaring your fillings loose. And it looks like nothing else they've made, which is saying something for a company that's been polishing the same grand tourer silhouette for decades. I'm genuinely curious about the shape, because it's not a swoopy coupe or a boxy SUV, it's somewhere in between. The spec sheet is still thin, so I'm not going to invent range figures or a price tag. But the real question, the one that launch video probably skipped, is what it actually feels like to drive.