The doorbins? Cavernous.

The point is, you won't be caught wanting for place to stow your items.

The interior is quite possibly Volvo's greenest and most vegan yet — most of the interior materials from the dashboard to the door cards to the carpets are all recycled materials. The vegan "leather" trim comes standard on the seats, which are both heated and ventilated.

The EX30 doesn't have a big footprint, but this doesn't translate to the experience inside the cabin. The massive full-length glass roof adds to an air of spaciousness, and the sky-blue interior adds to the illusion of space.

I'm a sucker for a frameless rearview mirror; Volvo's EX30 has frameless side mirrors to boot.

Then, there's the boot.

Due to the fact that it's an electric vehicle, the floor space is eaten up by the batteries, but there's also no wheel well below the boot's floor; the EX30 comes with a puncture repair kit instead of a spare.

It's not the biggest boot; and here's where similarities with a hatchback become more common (more about that in a bit). It's not big, but it's enough. The baby's pram was swallowed up comfortably enough, with ample space for groceries.

Then there's the performance, which takes this car from hatchback territory to beyond hot hatch territory.

Thanks to the electric motors on the EX30 Twin, it races to 100km/h faster than a GTi. Its performance is impressive. The AWD Twin model puts out 315kW and 543Nm, which will rocket you to 100km/h in just 3.6 seconds.

The single motor models aren't too shabby either, with 200kW of power and 343Nm which take a smidge over 5 seconds to reach the 100km/h mark.

Compare that to a GTi, which costs more by the way, with its 184kW and 0-100km/h sprint time of 6.4 seconds, and really, opting for the EX30 is a no brainer.

Plus, with electric power, there's zero lag so the torque is immediate.