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Volvo has announced the premiere date of its new electric car: the large ES90 sedan will be presented on March 5. The four-door is already being called the most advanced battery-powered Volvo in terms of computing power, but the company has promised that other electric cars will receive similar equipment over time.
Volvo calls the ES90 sedan a software-defined electric car, that is, a car in which all processes will be controlled by one computing unit. For the first time in its electric cars, Volvo has used two Nvidia Drive AGX Orin chips in its design, each of which is capable of 508 trillion operations per second.
Among other things, the unit will be responsible for controlling a set of driver assistants. The ES90 is set to debut a new generation system, which will include a lidar, five radars, eight cameras, and 12 ultrasonic sensors. In addition, the electric car will be equipped with new driver communication functions, although Volvo is not going into details yet.
The ES90 design is initially designed to be updated and upgraded, including wirelessly. The company promises that in the future, the electric car will be able to acquire new media functions, become safer and even have a longer range due to more efficient energy consumption control, thanks to software upgrades.
The ES90 is based on the SPA2 platform. In its development, as in the case of the EX90 crossover, the proprietary modular Superset technology was used, and, accordingly, over time, the innovations used in the sedan, including hardware, will also be able to be received by the crossover.
Source: Auto
