Volvo ES90 electric car with 700 km range set to be unveiled in spring
Volvo is launching several fully electric variants of its S90 sedan under the model name ES90. The all-wheel-drive version, with a 106 kWh battery and dual motors, will reportedly have a range of up to 700 km according to WLTP standard. Thanks to its 800-volt technology, the car will also boast 300 km of range with just 10 minutes of charging at a 350 kW rapid charging station. Additionally, Volvo claims it takes only 20 minutes for the battery to charge from 10% to 80%.
The ES90 is Volvo’s first vehicle featuring an 800-volt architecture, which has already been seen in electric cars from other companies, such as the Kia EV6 and the Hyundai Ioniq 5. Compared with the current 400-volt technology, this architecture offers optimised charge time, charging efficiency, and range. The adaptive charging software on Volvo’s new luxury electric vehicle is supplied by the US-based Breathe Battery Technologies.
ES90 is still built on SPA2 platform
Similar to the EX90 premium SUV, the ES90 is built on the Scalable Product Architecture 2 (SPA2) platform. The follow-up architecture, SPA3, is only expected to make its debut later in the EX60. Furthermore, the Volvo ES90 will feature what is known as the “Volvo Cars Superset” tech stack, described by the company as “a single set of hardware and software modules underpinning all future electric Volvo cars”.
The Volvo ES90 luxury sedan boasts a set of safety features called “Volvo Safe Space”. The car’s exterior is equipped with a lidar system, five radars, twelve ultrasound sensors, and eight conventional cameras, whilst the interior features a technology capable of analysing the driver’s behaviour and taking measures to protect the people inside.
The necessary computing power is provided by two Nvidia Drive AGX Orin processors, and a Battery Pass contains information related to the materials used in the vehicle’s battery. The Volvo ES90’s official presentation is set to take place over a livestream on 5 March 2025.
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