With the new and fully electric Volvo EX60 SUV, Volvo Cars is launching a car that you can talk to in a natural way. As the first Volvo to launch with Gemini, the new AI assistant from Google, customers can have a true natural conversation with the EX60, the company’s most intelligent and technologically advanced car to date.
Set to be revealed on 21 January, the EX60 mid-size SUV is packed with state-of-the-art, AI-powered technology that helps to make the lives of customers easier, safer, more convenient and simply more enjoyable.
“The new EX60 is full of human-centric technology designed to enhance your life behind the wheel,” says Anders Bell, Chief Engineering and Technology Officer at Volvo Cars. “HuginCore, our state-of-the-art system of hardware and software, combines our in-house developed technology with the best services and technologies from tech leaders such as Google, NVIDIA and Qualcomm Technologies. It creates discreet yet cutting-edge tech that works quietly in the background to support you.”
Gemini makes every drive more helpful by providing hands-free control for everything that matters on the road. It is highly personalized, deeply integrated with the car and allows drivers to manage complex tasks through natural and multi-turn conversation without having to remember specific commands. Drivers can stay focused on the drive, reducing the need to look at the central display.
For example, drivers can ask Gemini to find a hotel booking address in their email, check if a recently bought item fits in their EX60 trunk or brainstorm ideas for an upcoming road trip. This integration makes the EX60 intuitive to use and builds on Volvo Cars and Google working together for nearly a decade.
The EX60 contains the latest iteration of Hugin Core, the Volvo Cars core system named after the bird in Norse mythology that empowers the car to think, process and act. This is the first time that Volvo Cars names its core system, which encompasses the in-house developed electrical architecture, core computer, zone controllers and software inside the EX60 – a true software-defined car.
HuginCore embodies Volvo Cars’ approach to human-centric technology, combining in-house development and collaboration with tech leaders. HuginCore enables continuous improvement of Volvo cars via over-the-air updates and reinforces the company’s safety leader position.
The AI-powered features on the EX60 require advanced computing power, which is available in spades inside the EX60. The next-generation Snapdragon Cockpit Platform from Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is an advanced system-on-a-chip that provides the EX60 with the highest level of processing power found inside a Volvo car to date.
The EX60 is also equipped with the Snapdragon Auto Connectivity Platform by Qualcomm Technologies. This provides EX60 customers with continuous and ultra-responsive connectivity so they can make the most of their four years of complimentary unlimited data.
At the centre of the EX60 lies the powerful NVIDIA DRIVE platform, featuring accelerated computing powered by the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin system-on-a-chip, which runs on the safety-certified DriveOS operating system.
As a result of its vast processing power, the EX60 offers the most responsive user experience in any Volvo car to date, helping customers keep their focus on where it needs to be – on the road. In this seamless and no-lag infotainment system, screens respond quickly, maps load instantly, voice assistants understand passengers better, and everything feels smooth.
HuginCore helps to take the EX60 to new levels of safety, as it constantly reads and assesses the world around the car through its wide array of sensors. The result is a car with a clear and precise understanding of its surroundings.
This deeper awareness allows the EX60 to support drivers in real time. It helps them anticipate danger sooner, avoid potential risks, and react calmly and confidently when the unexpected happens. It is designed to make every journey safer, more reassuring, and less stressful, enabling highly advanced driver assistance features.
Because the EX60 is capable of over 250 trillion operations per second, it does not just process information but learns with every mile. The car will draw on experiences from other Volvo cars globally, including accidents and near-misses, to keep improving over time.
Like all new Volvo cars, the EX60 will benefit from regular over-the-air updates, meaning that a car that is great from day one will get better as time goes on. This is enabled by the Volvo Cars Superset tech stack, a smart software foundation which allows Volvo cars to keep getting better over time.
And as Volvo Cars continues to integrate Gemini deeper with the car’s systems, it will unlock new possibilities. In time, Gemini will be able to use the EX60’s cameras to see what you see and answer questions about the world around you.
As previously revealed, the EX60 goes further than any electric Volvo car before. It can go up to 810km on a single charge in an all-wheel drive configuration, beating even its most recently revealed competitors. The EX60 can also add up to 340km of range in just ten minutes, when using a 400kW fast charger.
