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Thread created in advance for Volvo's new flagship, the electric ES90./

The upcoming Volvo ES90 will be a supercomputer on wheels

Volvo teased its upcoming ES90 sedan, revealing an interesting feature. The ES90 gets the powerful Nvidia Drive AGX Orin system, making it the most computationally powerful car Volvo has ever created. This advanced technology is part of Volvo's new "Superset" tech stack, a modular platform designed to underpin all future Volvo vehicles.

At the heart of the ES90's intelligence, we get the dual Nvidia Drive AGX Orin configuration. This system can perform a staggering 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS). It can handle everything from advanced safety features to managing the battery. Its computational power represents an eight-fold increase compared to Nvidia's previous Xavier computer, which Volvo used before. This leap in computing capability allows Volvo to enhance its deep learning models and neural networks, expanding from 40 million to 200 million parameters.

The ES90 is built on Volvo's SPA2 architecture, which is the same platform used for the EX90 electric SUV. Both vehicles share the Superset tech stack, a modular engineering platform designed to create safer cars more efficiently. Superset can get over-the-air software updates, a feature pioneered by Tesla, allowing Volvo to continuously improve the car's performance and features. Volvo envisions a future where driver assist technology and battery range can be upgraded over time with few lines of code.

One of the key benefits of this new computing platform is its impact on safety. Safety has been Volvo's middle name forever, but the ES90 takes it to the next level. The advanced processing power introduces sophisticated AI-based active safety features. The car's sensors, combined with the super-fast Orin system, can react to potential hazards faster and more effectively.

www.arenaev.com

The upcoming Volvo ES90 will be a supercomputer on wheels

The Volvo ES90 electric sedan leverages a powerful Nvidia supercomputer and Volvo's Superset platform to deliver advanced safety features.
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www.volvocars.com

Coming soon: the new, fully electric and software-defined Volvo ES90 | Volvo Cars

The upcoming Volvo ES90, our latest fully electric model, is the most powerful car we ever created in terms of core computing capacity. And it is designed to evolve and improve over time.
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High-tech Volvo ES90 saloon to be revealed on 5 March

New saloon will be a technological flagship, with advanced on-board computers and sensors

The Volvo ES90 will be revealed on Wednesday 5 March as the brand’s most technologically advanced car to date.

The company said the electric saloon – which is closely related to the existing EX90 electric SUV – will pack two Nvidia computers said to be capable of combining to complete around 508 trillion operations per second. For reference, that makes them around 50 times more powerful than a PlayStation 5 games console.

The punch of the computers will allow Volvo to gradually quadruple the size of the information bank for its artificial intelligence, using data collected from cars already on the road.

This should yield improvements to the car’s collision avoidance and autonomous driving systems over time, according to Volvo.

“By combining the power of core computing and our Superset tech stack, we can now make safer cars more efficiently than ever before,” said Volvo tech chief Anders Bell.

Bell added: “The Volvo ES90 is one of the most technically advanced cars on the market today and is designed to be improved further with time.”

To that end, the saloon also gets an array of sensors, including a lidar box, five radars, eight cameras and 12 ultrasonics.

www.autocar.co.uk

The Volvo ES90 will be the brand's most technologically advanced car to date | Autocar

New saloon will be a technological flagship, with advanced on-board computers and sensors
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Woah, Volvo’s new electric ES90 saloon promises 435 miles of range

And it’ll be able add 186 miles in just ten minutes. Big Shiny Reveal coming soon

Volvo is building a shiny new electric saloon, which in itself remains Good News. Today, we learn this shiny new EV is capable of driving up to 435 miles in one bladder-busting schlep. Your kidneys will never know what hit them.

And ahead of the big shiny reveal next week, Volvo has also said that when this 106kWh battery is fully emptied and presented with a 350kW fast-charging station, it’ll recharge 186 miles worth of range in just ten minutes.

It’s all thanks, said Volvo, to the 800V electric architecture which underpins the ES90 and courses through its veins like a shot of espresso. 800V is of course better than 400V because it’s… more. And this makes the ES90 more efficient, faster and lighter than a puny 400V system would.

The electric motors are lighter. Ditto all the other electric componentry. And Volvo’s applied new battery-management software for a more “robust” charging experience which we’re reading as ‘won’t fall out of the socket’.


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So, as a car goes this thing is impressive. And Volvo have proven they can build electric cars.

My concern is Volvo offering it in South Africa? A country already struggling with sedans as the uptake is very high on SUVs. Plus electric uptake is not that great.

So the only way i see this working is with a MAJOR incentive to buy it. Either price wise or I don't know...
 
Landship!!

Seriously, that thing looks longer than it needs to be...

But it will be an improvement on their very impressive EV line up.

Hopefully they did not go the EX30 route, with no physical buttons in the cabin...
 
neoprema said:
So, as a car goes this thing is impressive. And Volvo have proven they can build electric cars.

My concern is Volvo offering it in South Africa? A country already struggling with sedans as the uptake is very high on SUVs. Plus electric uptake is not that great.

So the only way i see this working is with a MAJOR incentive to buy it. Either price wise or I don't know...
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Especially because they don’t even offer the S60 or V60 in the current generation in SA
 
Is it a saloon? Is it a fastback? No, it's the new, £70k+ Volvo ES90 electric car

Four-door Volvos are back, in the shape of this… rather delightful shape

Here we are then, Volvo’s return to low-flying four-doors. After the TG Award-winning EX90 SUV comes this, the brand new ES90. It’s a large, luxury electric... saloon? Fastback? Hatchback? Car that’ll start from £70,000 in the UK and give the BMW i5 and Mercedes EQE something to think about.

Or will it? Volvo’s certainly hoping so, equipping its shiny new SPA2-platformed EV with lightning fast 800V hardware and the choice of one electric motor, two, or two but Very Two, if you catch our drift.

The Single Motor is available with a 92kWh battery driving the rear wheels, while the Twin Motor and Twin Motor Performance versions with all-wheel-drive come with a slightly bigger 106kWh pack.

And with this slightly bigger 106kWh battery, twin motors and that standard-fit 800V architecture, Volvo reckons this ES90 can cover up to 435 miles of range. Find a fast enough charger – one that hasn’t got a battered old diesel V60 parked in front of it – and it’ll go from 10 to 80 per cent charge in around 20 minutes.

That’s with a 350kW hose. Heck, Volvo reckons it’ll add 186 miles of range – 300km – in just 10 minutes. That’s an entire small EV’s range, in one coffee break.

Which would be a perfect time to relax in the ES90’s cabin. This being a Swedish car means sustainable materials, natural colourways and a pared-back, relaxed design inspired by Scandi nature. This being a new-age Volvo also means a nine-inch driver display, HUD, and giant 14.5in central touchscreen. There’s a surround view for… viewing the surrounds, super-fast infotainment processors, lots of Google apps and 5G, too.

Looks good outside, too. It’s a chonky boy, offering a lower-slung take on Volvo’s new-era electric design language. So it's not simply an old S90 retrofitted with the EX90's face, because Volvo's raised the ride height - can't fully escape the SUV clutches, huh. That said, the EX90's face fits well onto this shape, what with its flowing, raked roofline sweeping back into that rear hatch opening, C-shaped rear LEDs and 20-22in wheels.


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