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Volvo EX60 debut: AI‑powered EV on HuginCore platform

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Volvo unveiled the EX60, its next‑generation electric SUV built on the all‑new HuginCore platform. The architecture uses a cell‑to‑body battery pack, large castings to shed weight, and a computer cluster capable of more than 250 trillion operations per second. Naming the platform after Odin’s raven signals Volvo’s push toward data‑driven mobility.

Head of global software engineering Alwin Bakkenes said HuginCore is Volvo’s second‑generation software‑defined vehicle stack, incorporating hard‑learned lessons from the EX90. While SPA3 underpins the EX60, much of the codebase and the Nvidia Drive AGX Orin SOC also serve SPA2 models. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8255 adds flexible AI inference for future features.

Volvo integrates Google’s Gemini into the EX60, delivering a conversational AI that can navigate, queue music or respond to vague commands. By treating the car as a continuously updatable software platform, Volvo plans to keep older SPA2 vehicles on the latest code releases, extending their lifespan and keeping the brand competitive.