Volvo unveils flagship SUV with 370-mile vary • TechCrunch

Volvo unveiled its flagship electrical car Wednesday, a seven-passenger SUV that may journey 370 miles on a totally charged battery.

The debut of the Volvo EX90 is a “big step ahead” within the automaker’s quest to grow to be a totally electrical model by 2030, CEO Jim Rowan mentioned throughout a livestreamed launch occasion. The SUV marks the model’s “new period” of software-defined autos, sporting expertise and security options anticipated to trickle all the way down to the remainder of the lineup.

The EX90 embodies Volvo’s key advertising message — that nobody must be killed or significantly injured in a new Volvo automobile — because it goals for EVs to comprise half of the 1.2 million autos the corporate is focusing on in mid-decade world gross sales.

The usual system options 16 ultrasonic sensors, eight cameras, 5 radar methods, and lidar fitted to the roofline, serving to the automobile see as much as 820 ft in full darkness, based on Volvo.

“All of these work collectively to type an invisible protect of security,” mentioned Rowan, who known as the EX90 “the most secure automobile Volvo has ever produced.” He mentioned the system is designed with AI capabilities to grow to be extra tailor-made to the driving force’s habits over time.

As the newest within the business’s crop of “software-defined autos,” the SUV depends upon core compute expertise. The heart are created with companions, together with Google, Apple, Nvidia, Luminar and Qualcomm.

The EX90’s 370-mile vary places it forward of nearly all of new battery-electric SUVs available on the market, together with the Ford Mustang Mach-E and Tesla Mannequin X. It additionally options bidirectional charging to make use of the automobile’s battery as an additional vitality provide supply to energy house home equipment and feed vitality again to the grid.

The automaker mentioned Wednesday it plans to unroll a Volvo app, with particulars to come back, and broaden its subscription-based possession and Care by Volvo upkeep applications to extra cities and nations.