Volvo has invited a number of journalists to the USA to test the new flagship EX90. And already now the first tests reveal a car full of errors.
– While some features were missing from the EX90, others simply didn't work correctly, at least on our test car.
This is what Ars Technica writes, which was with the team in the USA that tested the first examples of the Volvo EX90, the brand's electric flagship.
– Volvo provided flights from Washington to Orange County and accommodation so that Ars could drive the EX90, writes the media.
But that doesn't stop the media from being critical of the car. And apparently there is a need for that. The Volvo EX90 is a car full of faults. Thus, Volvo has not got rid of the faults and shortcomings that also plague the much smaller EX30, which is otherwise hugely popular at home.
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The EX90 is Volvo's most expensive street car in the current model range. Even here at home, the car costs close to DKK 900,000. And even then, customers cannot expect to receive a car that works one hundred percent from the factory.
In any case, Volvo has had to admit that a large number of the functions that were promised to customers are not present in the car for the first time. The technology in the EX90, which took 5 years to develop, is simply outdated. Something that could cost Volvo billions of kroner to correct.
Ars Technica states that they had to have the help of Volvo's technicians in the US to even get the test car working.
This even though the journalists – just as Volvo has already admitted – had been told that certain functions are missing. Blue. Apple CarPlay, two-way charging and several driver assistance systems.
– While some features were missing from the EX90, others simply didn't work properly, at least not on our test car.
– Volvo has switched to a phone number for the EX90, which uses ultra-broadband (as do Apple's AirTags) to register that the owner is nearby.
– Unfortunately our EX90 had trouble detecting the presence of the phone and at one point refused to boot. It required a technician with a laptop to succeed, writes Ars Technica.
However, the media points out that Volvo will probably have corrected the errors, or at least that is the hope when the first customers receive their cars. But it has not been a good first impression.
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