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 p.c, whereas decreasing weight and taking on 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 very happy with the way it has used megacasting to make sections of the automobile, resembling the complete rear underbody, as large, single aluminum items with an 8,400-ton casting machine. This replaces round 100 separate elements with a single sheet of metallic, 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 spotlight 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 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 modifications lanes for you. However the driving help software program just isn’t “eyes off.”
Volvo invented the fashionable three-point seat belt again in 1959, so I am notably 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 recognize, this belt apparently makes use of real-time sensor information to regulate stress primarily based in your physique traits, the visitors circumstances, and the severity of a crash.
