On Wednesday, Volvo gathered media collectively in Sweden to disclose a brand new automotive. It is known as the EX90, and it is a battery-electric SUV that goes on sale in early 2024 alongside the conventionally powered XC90 SUV because the model’s new flagship.

“The Volvo EX90 is an announcement for the place we’re, and the place we’re going. It is absolutely electrical with a variety of as much as 300 miles on a single cost, designed to additional elevate our security requirements, the primary Volvo automotive to be actually outlined by its software program and a part of a wider ecosystem, connecting to your private home and your different gadgets. The Volvo EX90 is the beginning of one thing new for Volvo Vehicles in some ways,” stated Volvo CEO Jim Rowan.

Instantly recognizable as a Volvo SUV because of its distinctive silhouette and light-weight signatures, the EX90 makes use of the identical new SPA2 electrical automobile structure because the forthcoming Polestar 3 SUV, which just like the EX90 might be constructed at Volvo’s manufacturing unit in Charleston, South Carolina.

So it is no shock that the specs are fairly much like the Polestar 3; a 111 kWh battery pack and a pair of electrical motors—one for every axle—with a mixed output of 496 hp (370 kW) and 671 lb-ft (910 Nm). Volvo says {that a} quick cost will take half-hour to carry the battery from 10–80 % state of cost and expects a variety of as much as 300 miles (483 km). It would additionally characteristic bidirectional charging or vehicle-to-load capabilities.

Volvo’s additionally becoming lidar to the EX90, on this case a forward-looking unit from Luminar mounted above the windshield. In time Volvo could endow EX90s with autonomous driving software program, however for now the lidar sensor integrates into the EX90’s suite of superior security programs to detect objects within the EV’s path.

As with the Polestar, the EX90 makes use of Nvidia’s Drive AI platform to fuse all of the sensor knowledge collectively, and the Android Automotive infotainment system is powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Cockpit platform.

Volvo says that the EX90 “might be out there well-equipped at below $80,000” within the US. It is accepting $500 preorders now, with the deliveries deliberate for early 2024.