Volvo Details the 2024 EX90’s New Google HD Map Display at CES

• Volvo’s first purpose-built EV, the 2024 EX90 SUV, made its North American debut at the moment as a part of CES 2023.
• Scheduled to reach in 2024, the EX90 will function lidar, cameras, and radar to offer info for the newly introduced Google’s HD map function.
• The Volvo EX90 and Polestar 3 would be the first two automobiles obtainable with this know-how from Google.

Over the previous couple of years, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has adopted roughly the identical development because the automotive business as an entire, blurring the strains between what will be deemed a part of the automobile world, and what lives solely in know-how. For 2023, Volvo introduced its first purpose-built EV, the 2024 EX90 SUV, to CES for its North American debut. However CES is about know-how, not vehicles. So Volvo is principally exhibiting off its latest Google mapping software program.

Google’s HD map was designed particularly for automakers to combine into their automobiles. Within the EX90, it makes use of the SUV’s lidar, digicam, and radar programs together with lane-level and native knowledge from Google. Lane markers and objects like indicators, or different automobiles are mixed with the information from the EX90’s sensors earlier than the software program will get processed via the car’s native computer systems, and is powered via NVIDIA DRIVE AI Platforms Xavier and Orin.

We’ve not but used the know-how in the true world, however we are able to inform that the HD map seems and appears to perform equally to the show we have skilled in Teslas. The radar and digicam programs of the automobile absorb photographs and supply the driving force with real-time info on their environment. The Volvo EX90 and Polestar 3 would be the first two vehicles to get the know-how, earlier than transferring to different Volvo automobiles and partnering manufacturers.

Volvo can also be rolling out over-the-air updates (OTA), which is able to improve the variety of capabilities Google-enabled Volvos can make the most of. The brand new replace provides connectivity between private Google gadgets resembling Google House merchandise and your automobile. Homeowners will now have the ability to use their gadgets for issues like checking gas ranges, battery ranges, charging standing, or asking their automobile to warmth up on chilly mornings.

Along with the brand new Google options, Volvo is introducing or updating varied different tech options. Entry to Volvo’s Care Key perform is increasing, and particulars about over-the-air updates will now be obtainable on the Volvo Vehicles app, amongst different infotainment tweaks.