For the EX60, Volvo is utilizing cell-to-body technology, which implies 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 power density by 20 p.c, whereas lowering weight and taking on much less area. Not many different producers have gone down this highway but, however count on to see extra doing so.
A brand new underbody, chassis, and suspension improves on the setup within the present EX90. Volvo can also be very happy with the way it has used megacasting to make sections of the automotive, akin to the complete rear underbody, forged by an 8,400-ton casting machine into big, single aluminum items. This replaces round 100 separate components 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 identical 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 EV’s “mind” able to greater than 250 trillion operations per second. It is also the primary Volvo to characteristic 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’ll be able to journey on highways at speeds of as much as 80 mph whereas the system steers and lane adjustments for you. However the driving help software program isn’t “eyes off.”
Volvo invented the fashionable three-point seat belt again in 1959, so I am significantly eager to see a wholly 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 knowledge to regulate rigidity primarily based in your physique traits, the visitors situations, and the severity of a crash.
