Volvo Cars does not tolerate the weight of global forces such as Volkswagen, Ford and Toyota, but it is also not a niche car manufacturer. This is one of the most ambitious when it comes to overcoming the wave of technology in the 2020s.
Volvo Cars aims to be one of the fastest legacy carmakers to move to 100% electric car sales. Within four years, by 2025, Volvo Cars expects 50% of its sales to be entirely electric vehicle sales. By 2030, the commitment is 100% electric. Not 100% Electrification (That is, some fully electric, some plug-in hybrids and some traditional hybrids) and not all models have a 100% electric version available. Volvo Cars has been working on all vehicles that manufacture and sell 100% electric vehicles for nine years.
This is half of the ongoing transition of automotive technology in the 2020s. The other half is to turn the car into a wheel-based software supercomputer (and ultimately a fully autonomous supercomputer). During this second half of the technological transition, Volvo Cars also strives to change faster than any other car.
We are happy because NVIDIA is a major technology partner. “All roads to the future of autonomy, electricity and connected transport go through an important innovation: software-defined centralized computing,” NVIDIA confidently concludes. “With a software-defined architecture, cars are not the best in the factory and are constantly being improved through wireless updates. This flexibility allows carmakers to develop vehicles and experiences that can be customized for each customer. You can too. “That’s right. We look forward to Volvo and NVIDIA implementing this in the next few years. How far will this infotainment and semi-autonomous driving technology go?”
I’m a little more outspoken here than usual – I think the information entertainment of the vehicles of all inherited car manufacturers is inconvenient. I understand this – for a large, established industry with few destructive threats at startup, it is very difficult to move dramatically and quickly. Turning a car into a computer on wheels, built mostly by a high-level software team, is like closing your business and starting almost another business. Nevertheless, this is 2021, given what we all have on mobile phones and the infotainment package that Tesla has put together, the new cars are YouTube, Netflix, Disney + and maybe better. Excellent web browser for email (Gmail) interface and more. Chinese start-ups “smart electric cars” Xpeng and NIO have seen where things are going and have created great opportunities. Otherwise, however, consumers have no choice if they want a car with a convenient infotainment package with a modern look. We hope that this early noise from Volvo Cars and NVIDIA shows that Volvo cars will catch up with this side of things within a few years.
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Of course, a comprehensive computer-based car has more than infotainment. “Vehicles on the road today are equipped with dozens of electronic control units (ECUs) distributed in the vehicle. Each ECU controls specific functions such as power windows and infotainment systems. This structure requires a long development cycle and can be very complex to update with the advent of new technologies, ”writes NVIDIA.
Volvo Cars aims to create a ‘steering wheel computer’ for the next generation of vehicles and to integrate these ECUs into a centralized architecture. The system will be built on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, the most modern, functionally safe and secure, software-defined self-managing computing platform for cars. “
I have George Hotz I talked a little about this at a conference in Paris in 2017. Catch him here Or here:
Years passed, but Volvo Cars and NVIDIA revealed it A few Car manufacturers are beginning to understand why they need a highly centralized computer system instead of 12 or 2 small computer systems for individual tasks such as opening windows and charging Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. I am. Interestingly, car companies, which seem to be pursuing this more enthusiastically, seem to be moving more aggressively into the future of electricity. Another thing that comes to mind..
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Back to Volvo Cars: “The basic computing system introduced in the 2022 model will consist of three basic computers: visual processing and artificial intelligence, respectively general computing. We support each other in the work of the infotainment system …
“By incorporating NVIDIA DRIVE Orin into Volvo Cars’ core vehicles, we will continue to be safer and more personalized through wireless updates, while maintaining sufficient computing space to improve vision and sensor processing. Is that the goal? ”
Everything Volvo Cars has seen over the past year aims to make Swedish carmakers, known for their historic safety leadership, a future leader in cleaner, software-focused technologies. I tell you I am. A few years ago, from ancient times CleanTechnica Writer and insider in the automotive industry Joe Boras Lots of bulls in Volvo, I was quietly skeptical (and sometimes quiet it might not be). After all, Volvo Cars still offered only relatively incomplete and trouble-free hybrids, while other carmakers offered fully electric vehicles. Were there so many things going on behind the scenes that would distract Volvo from its slow pace in the future and show that it would jump to leadership? Apparently there was.
“Core systems are computing power designed with safety leaders in mind,” said Patrick Bengtson, Volvo Cars’ vice president of automotive software and electronics. “We believe in partnerships with technology leaders, which is why we work with NVIDIA.”
“By developing the software internally, we can accelerate development and improve Volvo faster than it is today,” said Henrik Green, Chief Technology Officer. “Like smartphones and computers, new software and features can be quickly implemented through wireless updates, making Volvo better and more enjoyable over time.”
Praise for you. And we would no doubt like to thank NVIDIA for strengthening and keeping the hands of carmakers when they take advantage of the opportunities associated with this new technology in the automotive world.
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