Volvo promises software improvements for buggy EX90 SUV

Volvo’s EX90 SUV was expected to usher successful a caller epoch of electrified dominance for the Chinese-owned, Swedish designed automaker. Instead, the three-row SUV has been plagued by problems from the precise start, including blank infotainment screens, faulty clime controls, operator assistance failures, and the noticeable deficiency of a moving lidar sensors.

Now, the EX90 is getting a caller overgarment of paint, and the automaker is promising a overmuch improved experience. In summation to a caller 800-volt architecture for improved charging, the EX90 present sports a machine powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin system-on-a-chip. This machine upgrade volition alteration “new and improved safety, collision avoidance, and operator enactment features,” Volvo present claims.

Volvo is besides bringing a big of caller features to the EX90 centered astir safety. Chief among them is Emergency Stop Assist, successful which the car volition travel to a controlled halt successful its lane if the operator fails to respond to a bid of warnings. Volvo envisions this moving successful situations wherever a operator has a aesculapian exigency and tin nary longer power the vehicle.

The quality of the upgraded EX90 comes arsenic Volvo is staking its aboriginal connected a 50 percent measurement summation implicit the adjacent 5 years, anchored by a $1.3 cardinal concern successful its mill successful Charleston, South Carolina. Volvo plans connected producing its XC60 mild and plug-in hybrids astatine the factory, arsenic good arsenic a new, unnamed “next-generation hybrid model” by 2030. (No connection connected the upcoming all-electric EX60 mid-sized electrical crossover, which volition beryllium formally revealed connected January 21, 2026.)

Volvo volition person its enactment chopped retired for it. In August, the automaker lone sold 49,273 cars globally, a 14 percent driblet year-over-year and the lowest measurement truthful acold successful 2025.