Volvo promises the latest and greatest safety techVolvo has confirmed its new XC90 replacement, a large electric SUV named EX90, will make its official debut on 9 November.
Volvo has dropped a few teaser videos of the technology on board, including one that appears to show the rough silhouette of the new EX90. It’s a familiar shape, almost looking like an evolution of the current XC90 rather than anything as radical as the Concept Recharge we saw in 2021. It seems those leaked patent images that recently surfaced online may have a lot of truth to them.
Inside, it’s expected to be a lot cleaner with fewer physical switches and a flat floor. Google’s Android Automotive OS is expected to be the main framework of the infotainment system as Volvo and Polestar increase their dependency on software from the digital giant. ‘Accidents happen because there’s a mismatch between what you expect and what actually happens, and that’s what we’re really after here’ says Mikael Ljung Aust, senior safety technical leader at Volvo, ‘driving is this overlearned activity where people do distance keeping, lane keeping and speed keeping extremely similarly, compared to how we’re different other aspects of life. What we’re really looking for is whether you’re outside the normal driving box – if your behaviour is not normal.