Volvo ES90 was recently launched in Stockholm, Sweden.
If there is a word that has historically summarized the Volvo brand, it is security. But now that cars have become digital technology products, this no longer means crushed areas, airbags and hardening passenger division. To get high estimates, a car needs sophisticated computer -aided systems. With the start of the Volvo ES90, the Swedish company hopes to continue its security leadership in the digital era. I talked to Alwin Bakkenes, head of the Volvo software engineering for what ES90 means for the essential goals of the brand.
Volvo ES90: Premium EV features
The Volvo ES90 is only launched without giving journalists a chance to run it yet. But the design is promising. Although it looks like a sedan, ES90 is a lid. This will make it more practical for families who want a lot of luggage space without being a SUV. The passenger space is also excellent, with a lot of space for adults over six feet long to sit behind people of similar size in the front.
The electric range is up to 435 miles in the WLTP cycle, and this car uses an 800V architecture (Volvo’s SPA2, also used by polestar 3) than 400V as used in the Volvo ex30. So it can load very quickly, able to fill 186 miles in just ten minutes when connecting to a 350kw charger. Battery sizes up to 106kwh and a two -motor option signal the ES90 premium positioning. But it is the computing ability that cements this car as the new Volvo flag and the leader to push the company towards increased digital security.
ES90 is a masker of the lid as a sedan.
“Software is now replacing the device as a main impetus of innovation,” Bakkenes says. “For Volvo this is about raising the bar in security and providing the innovative technology of the human center. ES90 is the first Volvo powered by two Nvidia Drive AGS Orin processors, which have calculating power of about 500 trillion operations per second (at the top), making this most powerful Volvo machine ever. These are chips designed for the tasks of the conclusion about it. We use them to orchestrated everything in the car with accents in our safety stack. ES90 divides the same bases as Ex90, which was the first car to use SPA2. “
Essential for these bases is Volvo superstar technology. “As with all our products using supersets, ES90 is designed to improve over time through air updates,” Bakkenes says. The Ex90 had only one chip Orin, with his second computer less powerful series Nvidia Xavier. Volvo aims to provide free updating to all existing Ex90 owners, updating the hardware in the CPR orin twins as well. “Orin is about eight times more powerful than Chip Xavier for calculating it. This enables us to significantly improve the number of parameters for our models. “
Utilizing Volvo ES90 Computer Power
Although the ES90 has the same sensor group as the Ex90, including cameras, radar and Lidar, improved calculation performance will radically enhance its Software -grown Safety Skills. “We can make more conclusion on the skirt and this gives the systems better,” Bakkenes says. “We will use this calculator to increase security. ES90 is created to see you with a stack of extremely good perception of surroundings using cameras and radar to enable the machine to be reliable in different weather conditions, darkness and sunlight. The lidar can detect obstacles, even small objects, at a long distance. Numerous that enable the car to interpret the driver’s attention to build an advanced holistic solution of the Driver Aid (ADAS). “
Unlike some manufacturers, Volvo has included Lidar as well as radar and camera in ES90 … [+]
The goal of Volvo is to go beyond providing ample technology for a high security rating. “We do this with the security of real life in mind, in every scenario, and that is what we optimize for,” Bakkenes says. Optimization has improved with any software update. “This is a trip we started long ago. Cardo we have built for many years is completely over updated air. It’s not just about the entertainment system. We can touch any ecu in the car, and we also collect data. These data enable us to understand how to improve time systems.”
The computer power in the ES90 allows it to contribute data to this optimization process as well as benefit from it. “With the Super Super Tech Purgun now in SPA2, we even have the ability to collect raw sensor data we can use to train our models to improve them over time and then put those models back in vehicles,” Bakkenes says. “Superset supports all our future electric cars. When we make an improvement in ADAS fork, it does not only benefit ES90. It also benefits the Ex90 as well as the future cars coming to the SuperSet technology stack like the Ex60. “
“This is the most powerful Volvo to date from a calculator perspective and, being defined software, has been created to be able to consistently evolve,” Bakkenes says. “We can use that energy calculation over time. Initially we combine it with an extraordinary group of sensor using it to keep ourselves as a resident in the vehicle, but also your surroundings, safe. That’s what we call safe space technology.”
Volvo ES90: Technology for future autonomy
“We’re Volvo and our customers expect us to provide them with the safest experience there,” Bakkenes says. “Avoiding a collision is one of the most important things, protecting the inhabitants of the vehicle, but also the people around the vehicle. ES90 and Ex90 are not equipped with only two computers and a wide set of sensors, including Lidar. There is also surplus. It has excessive braking, running and power supply. These cars are really prepared for autonomous driving. First we oversee the supervised autonomy, where it is really working and where it is safe, and we will progressively improve skills. But the device is prepared for supervised autonomy. “
“One of the reasons we are improving in two orins is due to the computer requirements we need to meet the self-direction we anticipated with these machines,” Bakkenes says. “Having 500 peaks in cars enables us to make conclusions on the edge. You cannot do self-direction tasks in the cloud. You have to do it all in place. We also have enough calculators to execute scenarios in Shadow mode, so we can put new algorithms, and before activating them, try them and see how behavior is in the real world, to build the necessary trust. We have also equipped these cars with 5G connections, so we can charge perception data into a data center where we consume and process them. We analyze it and decide whether this should become part of the training stack. “
Volvo ES90 is a statement of the company’s intention to be the security leader in the digital … [+]
“It’s a double revolution,” says Bakkenes. “Car is a computer now, but you also have the ability to follow rapid development by passing many scenarios in simulation with a digital twin before trying them physically. Having this amount of calculating power in ES90, there is much more we can do with the system. One of our transformation is not just building a car. And this enables us to inherit the functionality from one car to the other.
While Volvo shares many parts of its technology with other brands in the group of which is part, concentration in security will be a specific Volvo feature. “These computing sensors enable us to build a client experience we believe is really stunning,” Bakkenes says. “A part of our transformative journey is to be able to become a software -driven company with thousands of software engineers that can build excellent products and a machine that enables us to manage all this active security data.”
“We have been driven by data since the early 1970s when we came up with measuring tapes to understand what happened in physical clashes,” Bakkenes says. “We implemented the connection again in 2020 in every car to collect real -life data from events. We have collected telemetry data from current or nearby clashes as they happen to help increase real -life security understanding.