The Volvo ES90 Arrives – CleanTechnica

By Imran Last updated Mar 5, 2025

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I’m used to fairly bland, formulaic EV press releases. There’s all the time a blatant try with flowery language and the most recent buzzwords to make you see the automobile in a sure approach. It’s tremendous. What else are they going to do? But it surely’s boring and routine. So, I used to be fairly pleased with the opening traces of Volvo’s press launch for the brand new ES90, which had been a bit completely different.

“Some would possibly say it’s a sedan. Others will see a fastback, and even hints of an SUV.

“We’ll allow you to be the ultimate decide — all we all know is that the brand new, absolutely electrical Volvo ES90 carves out a brand new house for itself by eliminating the compromises between these three segments, which places it in a category of its personal.”

Okay, perhaps that is only a intelligent strategy to ship precisely the message about this automobile that Volvo Automobiles needs individuals to eat. However is it flawed?

It’s a pleasant wanting automobile. Name it a sedan, a fastback, or a brief, slick SUV. Name it no matter you need. But it surely’s cool, proper?

It’s additionally bought sizzling laptop tech, the most recent EV tech, and presumably higher software program. “The ES90 is designed to evolve over time and powered by next-generation core computer systems that characterize an eightfold enchancment over the earlier era. It’s the primary Volvo automobile with 800V expertise, for an extended vary and quicker charging than any electrical Volvo earlier than. And naturally, it’s designed with our pioneering security tech at its core, in a bundle that’s set to be one other Scandinavian design basic from Volvo Automobiles.”

“The Superset is enabled by core computing, and the ES90 is the primary Volvo automobile to be powered by a twin NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin configuration. That makes it probably the most highly effective automobile we have now ever created when it comes to core computing capability,” says Anders Bell, Volvo’s chief engineering and expertise officer. “This enables us to additional increase the bar on security and total efficiency by means of information, software program and AI.”

When you really feel like Volvo has been electrifying quicker than some other legacy automaker, that’s as a result of it has been, and that is now the corporate’s sixth absolutely electrical mannequin (following the EX30, EX40, EX90, EC40, and EM90).

Nicely, after these intro traces, Volvo shot proper into the traditional press launch lingo making an attempt to make you suppose the ES90 is the best factor since sliced bread, or at the least for the reason that firm’s final new mannequin. There’s rather a lot in there in regards to the “flowing roofline” … “the automobile’s assured and distinctive stance” … Volvo’s distinctive “Thor’s Hammer headlight design” … and the way you get a “commanding view of the highway” as a result of the ES90 is barely taller than a traditional sedan. You possibly can learn all about that right here.

The issues that did stand out to me associated to Volvo’s deal with well being and security. Apart from “superior sound consolation,” the ES90 providing one of many quietest interiors the corporate presents, Volvo highlighted sunroof UV safety of as much as 99.9% and an asthma- and allergy-friendly air air purifier that “can cease as much as 95 per cent of PM 2.5 particulates from getting into the cabin and take away 99.9 per cent of grass, tree and pollen allergens.”

The infotainment system is a Google system, so that you will be positive it’s prime quality, however whether or not you like that over Apple or an automaker-built in-car system is as much as you. There’s additionally a head-up show and a brand new 3D view that helps you park.

After all, there’s lots of discuss in regards to the tech and the way it’s the most recent and finest tech. It does use 800-volt structure and supply as much as 300 kilometers (186 miles) of vary in 10 minutes utilizing new 350-kW charging stations. Additional, it offers up 700 kilometers (435 miles) of vary on a full cost (WLTP).

You possibly can at present order the ES90 in these markets: