Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Daniel Wu, ysl and Feifei for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, Nov. 10 (Xinhua)-- Volvo today unveiled a new generation of pure electric models, a full-size seven-seat SUV-- Volvo EX90, which is expected to start at less than $80000 (about 579000 yuan) and will be produced in Chinese and American factories.

The car is expected to open overseas bookings in the fall of 2023, followed by delivery in 2024. CTOnews.com has learned that Volvo has also announced that it will launch at least one all-electric car every year in the future.

Jim Rowan, CEO of Volvo, said the launch of the Volvo EX90 was a "huge step forward" in their pursuit of becoming an all-electric brand in 2030. The SUV marks the brand's entry into the era of "software-defined vehicles", and its sports technology and safety features are expected to infiltrate other products.

The Swedish brand maintains many traditional design languages in EX90. Some foreign media pointed out that in addition to the smoother body, hidden door handles and front grille, Volvo EX90 and tanker XC90 have many common design elements.

The new car is similar in size to the existing XC90 and has the same wheelbase, both 117.5 inches (about 2984.5 mm), while the total length has increased a little more than 3 inches to 198.3 inches (5036.82 mm), with a wind resistance factor of 0.29.

According to reports, Volvo EX90 has three clear priorities: internal performance, safety and sustainability. The new car has a seven-seat layout, a new set of safety features and a range of recyclable materials throughout the vehicle.

The new car is based on a new primary pure electric platform, using the industry's advanced central electronic and electrical architecture, the whole car uses 15% steel, 25% aluminum and 15% plastic, and uses recyclable materials. interior decoration also uses a large number of natural, traceable environmentally friendly materials, sustainable.

It is equipped with a dual-motor all-wheel drive system that provides 402 horsepower and 568 lb-ft torque, while the performance version is 496 hp and 671 lb-ft torque, 60 mph acceleration 5.7max 4.7 seconds. The new chassis is equipped with air springs and the front and rear dimensions of the brakes are 15.7 to 15.4 inches.

The EX90 uses a 400V architecture and carries a 111kWh battery with a usable capacity of 107.0 kilowatt hours and a range of 300 miles (about 482.8 km) on a single charge. It also supports fast charging and two-way charging, which takes 30 minutes from 10% to 80%, and can be paid automatically at the charging station.

EX90 embodies Volvo's key marketing selling point: no one should be killed or seriously injured in Volvo's new car, and its goal is to make electric cars account for half of the 1.2 million cars sold worldwide by the middle of the decade.

According to Volvo, the new car is equipped with Volvo's Pilot Assist system, which uses 16 ultrasonic sensors, eight cameras, five radar systems and a lidar mounted on the roof to detect everything within 820 feet in complete darkness.

The car is equipped with a NVIDIA DRIVE Orin chip, which provides up to 254 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of computing power, as well as a DUS driver perception system.

In terms of interior, the new car is very similar to the Polestar 3, with most control systems concentrated on the 14.5-inch central control screen and many physical buttons removed.

The new car uses a new design style, a three-spoke steering wheel with a narrow bar LCD instrument (which can display driving-related information, such as speed, mileage, navigation route, etc.) and a vertical large-size central control screen. make the car look full of technology. At the same time, the through-type air conditioning outlet increases the visual hierarchy in the car.

As the industry's latest "software-defined car", this SUV relies on core computing technology. Software technology was created with partners, including Google, Apple, NVIDIA, Luminar and Qualcomm. This means that the new car may bring an Android Auto-like system and support Apple CarPlay, although it is not clear what level of self-driving assistance the SUV will bring.

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