The soon-to-be-revealed Volvo ES90 further exemplifies Volvo Cars’ approach to the software-defined car. It is designed to evolve and improve continuously through core computing technology, constant connectivity, and data. In short, it is a car designed for safe and enjoyable journeys every day.
The ES90 is the first Volvo car equipped with a dual NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin configuration, making it the most potent vehicle the company has ever created in terms of core computing capacity. This allows Volvo Cars to raise the bar on safety and overall performance further through data, software, and AI.
DRIVE AGX Orin is NVIDIA’s core computer for intelligent cars. It orchestrates various essential systems and processes inside the car at ultra-fast speeds. With a high level of computational power—around 508 trillion operations per second (also known as TOPS)—it manages functionalities such as AI-based, state-of-the-art active safety features, car sensors, and efficient battery management.
The NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin-powered primary core computer provides an eightfold improvement in AI compute performance compared with DRIVE AGX Xavier, enabling Volvo Cars to gradually increase the size of our deep learning model and neural network from 40 million to 200 million parameters.
This will happen over time as the company collects more data and continues to develop the model, aiming to improve customer experience and – most importantly – safety levels.
The ES90 is built on our SPA2 architecture and is the second car based on the Volvo Cars Superset tech stack, following the EX90. The Superset tech stack consists of one single set of hardware and software modules and systems that underpin all the company’s upcoming electric cars.
It represents a radical transformation in developing and using software to improve Volvo Cars’ safety, technology and overall performance throughout the car’s lifecycle. With the Superset tech stack, the company can make such improvements more efficiently and roll them out faster via over-the-air updates and across all models based on the Superset.
Such updates might include new connectivity features, safety improvements, and other enhancements that can elevate the car’s performance, such as a better battery range for certain driving behaviours. Continuous improvement via regular over-the-air updates is now standard on your Volvo car.
As the Superset tech stack underpins all Volvo Cars’ upcoming electric cars, the company can simultaneously boost each car’s performance in its lineup so that ES90 customers benefit from EX90 software upgrades and vice versa. That means software replaces hardware as Volvo Cars’ customers’ primary innovation and value creation driver.
The ES90 combines an exceptional understanding of its surroundings through an advanced array of sensors, including one lidar, five radars, eight cameras, and twelve ultrasonic sensors, as well as an advanced driver-understanding system inside the car.
These safety systems are designed to help keep the driver safe by detecting obstacles, even in darkness, and activating proactive safety measures, such as collision avoidance.
Volvo Cars puts everything in a car to create a safe space for everyone in and around the vehicle, and technology helps the company make that happen. The company’s Safe Space Technology is designed to help avoid road accidents and hazards and make the drivers’ everyday journey safer and more enjoyable.
For ES90 customers, all this translates into a premium Volvo car designed to keep people safe and give the driver quality time with the people they love. Volvo Cars has created vehicles that place people first for nearly 100 years.
The company always use technology with purpose, equipping its cars with the right amount of tech to ensure a comfortable and safe ride. As such, the ES90 is designed to provide drivers with the mental peace and balance we all need in our hectic lives.
The dual NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin configuration will also be implemented on EX90 cars, upgrading its current version, which includes DRIVE AGX Orin and DRIVE AGX Xavier, in line with the company’s philosophy of continuous improvement.
This is a tangible example of how Volvo Cars’ Superset tech stack approach allows the company to upgrade the hardware of its cars as new technologies become available. Existing customers of the EX90 will receive a free upgrade of their vehicles.
The all-new Volvo ES90 will be revealed to the world on 5 March 2025. Follow the live stream via es90event.volvocars.com.
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