The Volvo ES90 will be the company’s first all-electric sedan for the next generation of products.
Volvo is pushing itself hard to create a fully-electrified portfolio and that means going beyond just the EX90 to tackle the shrinking sedan market. Thankfully they’re not ignoring this niche and next month we’ll see what they have in store as the Volvo ES90 has been scheduled for its global debut on the 5th of March 2025.
Very little has been shared about the Volvo ES90. What we do know is that it will be built on the SPA2 architecture, which also underpins the EX90 electric SUV. It will also be a software-defined vehicle with an emphasis on computing technology over traditional motoring aspects.
Key to this is the ES90’s integration of two NVIDIA’s DRIVE AGX Orin processors, which will make it the most powerful car Volvo has ever made in terms of computing capacity. This will allow Volvo to give the ES90 more headroom for future updates and increased AI capabilities.
The NVIDIA AGX ORIN chip is capable of around 508 trillion operations per seconds. Volvo intends to use this processing power to handle the car’s state-of-the-art safety features and battery. As can be expected, Over-The-Air updates are standard for continuous improvement via software updates. Volvo says this software-based car-making philosophy will underpin all their upcoming electric cars and they call it their ‘Superset tech stack’.
In terms of safety hardware, sensors are the name of the game. The Volvo ES90 features one lidar, five radars, seven cameras and twelve ultrasonic sensors to give the vehicle’s brain all the info it needs to keep you safe even in darkness. Volvo is calling this their Safe Space Technology and it’s aimed at preventing accidents altogether. You can watch the livestream of the car launch here: es90event.volvocars.com
