Volvo Unveils Next-Generation Pure Electric Flagship SUV EX90

Volvo unveiled its next-generation pure electric flagship SUV – EX90. With the addition of EX90, Volvo now has a new flagship model, in addition to S90, V90 and XC90. Unlike other car debuts that usually release an elusive rendering of the appearance, Volvo started with safety in its teaser.

In the teaser, Mr. Håkan Samuelsson, CEO of Volvo, stated that EX90 will be an all-electric model with standard Luminar LiDAR. Volvo EX90 will feature Luminar’s LiDAR technology, with a wavelength of 1,550 nm, a maximum detection range of 250 meters under 10% reflectivity, and an angular resolution of 0.06°*0.06°. This performance benchmark is very similar to NIO ET7, which carries Velodyne’s LiDAR.

This LiDAR system will work in conjunction with 5 millimeter wave radars, 8 perception cameras, and 16 ultrasonic sensors. Volvo expects that the adoption of this fusion system will reduce the number of fatalities and injuries by 20%, and the overall proportion of vehicle collisions prevented can be increased by up to 9%.

In fact, it’s not surprising that Volvo uses Luminar’s LiDAR. As early as last year’s Technology Day, Volvo announced that it would use a 1,550 nm LiDAR. However, it was mounted on CONCEPT RECHARGE, a concept car that had just debuted in China not long ago.

At the 2020 CES, Volvo announced that it will first launch unsupervised high-level autonomous driving function, Ride Pilot, to California users.

# Volvo officially released EX90 in California, which will gradually be launched globally under regulations. Volvo is currently the only OEM developing autonomous driving technology that can promise to fully take control of the vehicle. Moreover, Volvo places great importance on driver monitoring function. The EX90 will be equipped with the DUS in-car dual-camera driver perception system, consisting of one capacitive steering wheel and two cameras that can obtain driver’s status information and integrate with intelligent driving algorithms. This system, according to official reports, can judge whether the driver is sleepy, distracted, or drunk, and the vehicle will slow down and stop to ensure the safety of passengers and pedestrians when the driver’s attention is continuously unfocused. In the future, Volvo’s CEO Hakan Samuelsson stated that Volvo will invest in electrification and bring the all-new pure electric flagship SUV EX90 as the beginning of Volvo’s impact on high-end pure electric vehicles.

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