COMING SOON: 2023 Volvo XC90
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 Published On Jul 16, 2021

Volvo is going all in with electrification of its fleet and new XC90 is expected to have a big impact on Volvo starting 2023. Moreover, Volvo has announced that it’s going all-electric by 2030, and in a technology event held Wednesday the Swedish automaker revealed its Concept Recharge vision of where things are going and essentially said this: Things are moving fast. Volvo EVs will run on the company’s own operating system, with software developed in-house, a central computing platform, and lidar-informed driver-assistance systems for all its vehicles. The automaker also revealed more details about a collaboration with the battery supplier Northvolt that could allow the company to move to a cell-to-pack strategy—sounding much like Tesla’s structural pack strategy—around the middle of the decade. The Concept Recharge previews a future production electric flagship that will mark the start of Volvo’s design of vehicles with no accommodation for internal combustion. That’s a different approach than the next-generation XC90 SUV, due in 2023 in both EV and hybrid forms. Furthermore, Volvo is moving to a distributed computing system, with VolvoCarsOS at the core. To do that it’s moving from a strategy that today involves various pieces of compiled code from suppliers and moving that in-house. And it’s shifting to a single centralized computer for the entire vehicle, in its current form the system uses two—one primarily for vehicle control, the other for autonomous capability. Volvo also outlined three stages of battery development. From the current Gen 1 battery setup, it will move to a Gen 2 system that will use cells and modules in a skateboard layout, then by the middle of the decade to a Gen 3 “sandwich” battery, in which the top case of the pack will actually be the floor of the vehicle. It promises more than a 20% specific energy boost over Gen 2. So, what's coming next for Volvo? You will see everything on this channel!

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