By Nick Carey and Marie Mannes
(Reuters) – Volvo Cars will certainly make use of a solitary software application system backed by effective chips from Nvidia for all future designs and will rely upon “megacastings” to reduce prices for electrical automobiles, the firm claimed on Thursday.
In launches in advance of an organized financier occasion in Gothenburg, Volvo claimed that beginning with its front runner electrical EX90 version – which the Swedish car manufacturer will certainly start providing to clients this month – it will certainly have a solitary “technology stack” for all vehicle designs.
The EX90’s software application system is backed by Nvidia’s DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip, which can over 250 trillion procedures per 2nd (TOPS) and will certainly be changed later on this years by a chip with the ability of 1,000 trillion TOPS, Volvo claimed.
That software application will certainly aid Volvo develop far better security systems for its automobiles and frequently enhance automobiles in blood circulation by means of over-the-air updates, Chief Engineering & & Technology Officer Anders Bell informed Reuters.
Most significant car manufacturers state software-defined electrical automobiles (EVs) will certainly supply possibilities to create billions of bucks in extra income from offering registration solutions, however Bell claimed Volvo will certainly not go after that company version.
“The primary goal is to make the car better and have a more sticky product, not to sell a lot of subscriptions,” he claimed.
Bell claimed Volvo will rely upon “megacastings”, which like gigacasting usage large presses to make big solitary aluminium items of lorry underbodies.
Using those big solitary items decreases prices as they change lots of private items that require to be bonded with each other.
Tesla has actually been a leader in using gigacasting, with an expanding variety of car manufacturers consisting of General Motors and Nissan doing the same.
Bell claimed that with using megacasting, Volvo will certainly likewise have the ability to substantially boost using recycled aluminium and minimize exhausts throughout its supply chain.
(Reporting by Nick Carey and Marie Mannes; editing and enhancing by Jason Neely)
