For the EX60, Volvo is utilizing cell-to-body expertise, which signifies that the battery cells are positioned straight into the physique, so the outer casing turns into a part of the stiffness of the physique itself. Volvo claims this improves vitality density by 20 %, whereas decreasing weight and taking over much less area. Not many different producers have gone down this street but, however anticipate to see extra doing so.
A brand new underbody, chassis, and suspension improves on the setup within the present EX90. Volvo can be more than happy with the way it has used megacasting to make sections of the automotive, reminiscent of your complete rear underbody, as big, single aluminum items with an 8,400-ton casting machine. This replaces round 100 separate elements with a single sheet of steel, and it makes the entire physique construction stiffer and lighter. This isn’t novel to Volvo; Tesla and XPeng are utilizing this similar manufacturing method in some EVs.
As with BMW and Jaguar proper now, Volvo is eager to focus on the computing energy of the EX60. Its Snapdragon Cockpit Platform makes use of the Nvidia Drive AGX Orin and a brand new Qualcomm 8255 CPU, making the EV’s “mind” able to greater than 250 trillion operations per second. It is also the primary Volvo to function Google Gemini integration, once more going toe to toe with BMW, which introduced at CES in January that the iX3’s Clever Private Assistant was powered by Amazon’s Alexa+.
Volvo’s Pilot Help Plus means you possibly can journey on highways at speeds of as much as 80 mph whereas the system steers and modifications lanes for you. However the driving help software program will not be “eyes off.”
Volvo invented the fashionable three-point seat belt again in 1959, so I am significantly eager to see a completely new model of this iconic security tech revealed for the primary time within the EX60: the world’s first multi-adaptive security belt. Differing from the traditional system you realize, this belt apparently makes use of real-time sensor information to regulate pressure primarily based in your physique traits, the site visitors circumstances, and the severity of a crash.
