Volvo ES90 electric sedan to receive NVIDIA supercomputer

Volvo has announced a new electric sedan, the ES90, which will be the company's most productive car in terms of computing capabilities.

The new electric car will be equipped with a dual NVIDIA Drive AGX Orin configuration, making it "the most powerful car Volvo has ever built."

The new supercomputer is part of a single technical platform called Superset, which Volvo says will be the basis for all its future models.

Orin's computing power can significantly improve the electric vehicle's capabilities, including artificial intelligence-based safety systems, sensor data processing, and efficient battery management. The ES90 will be based on the SPA2 architecture and will support over-the-air software updates. This will allow the car to improve its performance over time. Tesla uses a similar approach. 

By the way, Volvo says that Orin is capable of processing 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS). But in the future, the company plans to switch to an even more powerful NVIDIA DRIVE Thor computer capable of performing up to 1000 trillion operations per second. This will allow the company to introduce more advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving, and new functions based on generative artificial intelligence.

As for the presentation of the Volvo ES90, it will take place in March 2025 at an event in Stockholm. By the way, we recently published an interesting article about the Swedish manufacturer's plans, which can be found here.