Volvo is hit by a pile of big – and very expensive – mistakes on otherwise brand new cars. This is due to the platform that needs to be cleaned up.
Volvo is currently building cars across various platforms. And this has already created a number of very expensive mistakes in brand new cars.
Blue. is the new EX90 full of bugs even before it rolls out to the first customers. The first team of journalists who got their hands on the car could reveal that this week.
But Volvo has a plan. To avoid problems with software errors and delays, as has been the case for both the EX90 and the much smaller EX30, the platforms simply need to be cleaned up.
Or rather cleared out. Because right now Volvo builds cars across platforms, which are also used by the sister brands of the Chinese Geely group.
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By sticking to a platform to base the technology on, Volvo's management hopes to avoid making the same mistakes a third time. The SPA3 platform will replace the three current ones: CMA, SEA and SPA2.
According to Swedish Vi Bilägare, SPA3 should enable Volvo to both scale future models up and down in size. Understood in the sense that the brand will be able to build cars that are both bigger and smaller than the brand's current cars.
The first car on the new platform is already under development. It will be an SUV called the EX60, later a sedan model called the ES90 will follow. The successor to the now retired S90.
Although Volvo announced this week that it is dropping its ceiling of only building electric cars in 2030, it remains unclear whether the ES90 will also be a hybrid car.
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