On May 15th, Volvo Cars announced that the production time for the Volvo EX90 has been adjusted due to the need for more time to develop and test vehicle software. The model was originally scheduled for production in the first half of this year, but it has now been postponed to the first half of 2024.
In November of last year, Volvo released a new generation of pure electric vehicles, a full-size 7-seater SUV – Volvo EX90, with an expected starting price of less than $80,000, which will be produced in both Chinese and American factories.
This model adopts the latest design concept in terms of appearance, based on the SPA2 new platform, with a length of about 5036mm, a wheelbase of about 2985mm, a wind resistance coefficient of 0.29, and equipped with the latest PilotAssist driving assistance function and intelligent cockpit.
On the power side, the new car will be equipped with a dual-motor drive system, with a maximum combined power of 370 kilowatts, equivalent to 503 horsepower, and a peak torque of 910 Nm. It is equipped with a 111 kWh battery with a 400-volt architecture and a range of 650 kilometers. It is said that this car will also introduce bidirectional charging function in the future, which can not only supply power to electrical appliances, but also even feed back to the power grid.
Volvo claims that the new car is equipped with Volvo’s Pilot Assist system, which uses 16 ultrasonic sensors, 8 cameras, 5 radar systems, and a roof-mounted LiDAR, which can detect everything within 820 feet in complete darkness.
The car is equipped with the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin chip, which provides up to 254 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of computing power, and is also equipped with the DUS driver perception system.
It is reported that the Volvo EX90 car system uses the Google native Android system. At this exhibition, Volvo and Google jointly released high-precision maps (Google HD Maps), and the Volvo Group became the first car company to use Google’s high-precision maps.
Regarding the interior, the new car is very similar to the Polestar 3, with most control systems centralized on a 14.5-inch center screen, and many physical buttons have been removed.
The new car adopts a brand-new design style, with a three-spoke steering wheel and a narrow LCD instrument panel (which can display driving-related information such as speed, range, navigation routes, etc.), as well as a vertical large-size center screen, giving the car a strong sense of technology. At the same time, the through-type air outlet increases the visual hierarchy of the car interior.
