2024 Volvo EX90 First Look: Volvo’s XC90 Alternative Is Electrical

The XC90 lengthy held the title of Volvo’s SUV flagship, however its reign is coming to an finish. In its stead rises the all-new absolutely electrical 2024 Volvo EX90. It takes the XC90’s normal ideas of security, house and Scandinavian luxurious with it however provides a brand new all-electric powertrain to the combo. It is Volvo’s new SUV flagship because the model transitions to a totally electrical future, and it units the tone for what we will anticipate from Volvo within the coming years.

That is simply an early take a look at the EX90, with Volvo solely releasing particulars about one trim. The EX90 will likely be initially obtainable in a two-motor, all-wheel-drive configuration — which means one motor up entrance and one on the again. These motors will pull from a 111-kWh battery pack and produce 496 horsepower and 671 lb-ft of torque. As for vary, Volvo says the EX-90 will ship as much as 300 miles on a single cost. It additionally says the EX90 can go from 10% to 80% state of cost in as little as half-hour.

Being a Volvo, security is at first. The EX90 casts an invisible web across the automotive and its occupants, inside and outside, through an array of cameras, radar and lidar sensors. Collectively, the methods create a “real-time, 360-degree view of the world” that the automaker says will assist preserve drivers and passengers out of bother whereas out on the street. Consequently, Volvo says the EX90 is the most secure automotive the corporate has ever made.

The array of sensors additionally assist prepared the EX90 for the appearance of autonomous driving, and the automaker says “the Volvo EX90 is the primary Volvo that’s hardware-ready for unsupervised driving sooner or later.” Volvo’s present Pilot Help suite of driver help tech is a strong begin, however we have discovered it wanted a bit extra refinement to be a class-leading system like those present in BMWs and Mercedes-Benz merchandise. Hopefully the additional sensors and the processing energy of a central mind offered by Nvidia assist Volvo attain the following degree.

Different tech is plentiful, too. The EX90 will include a 14.5-inch heart display screen that runs an tailored model of Google’s Android software program. It is a related system to those present in present Volvos, and whereas we’re proud of its performance, we discovered that occasionally the Volvo could not sustain with the working system’s calls for. The EX90’s system guarantees to be “lightning-fast,” although, Volvo says. It additionally provides the power to make use of Apple CarPlay, so for those who’re not an Android fan, you’ll be able to all the time bypass the default UI.

The inside itself appears to be like like a luxurious place to be when it comes to supplies and total design, however we’re already lamenting the absence of bodily buttons for many instructions just like the local weather controls and quantity adjustment. We hope Volvo has discovered an intuitive resolution for screen-only operation, which we have discovered can often be clunky and harder to undertake whereas driving. Button gripes apart, the inside will hopefully really feel as luxurious because it appears to be like.

The Volvo EX90 will likely be on sale right here within the States towards the top of subsequent yr, and Volvo says it can come nicely outfitted at underneath $80,000. We assume which means it can begin round $78,000 and have quite a few customary niceties whereas leaving out a number of swanky choices just like the Bowers & Wilkins stereo system. When it does lastly enter manufacturing, the EX90 will likely be constructed at Volvo’s plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina.