Volvo Cars says it has become the only established carmaker to earn S&P Global Mobility’s top Level 5 rating for software-defined vehicle capability.
What that means is Volvo can keep improving a car after it has been sold through over-the-air updates.
Those updates can add safety functions, improve charging, stretch driving range or just make the car better to live with, without a trip back to the workshop.
Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson said years of engineering work and investment helped the company build software capability matched by only a small handful of carmakers.
Volvo also said software now plays a much bigger part in how it develops future safety and driver assistance systems. By processing real-world data more quickly, the company aims to improve those systems faster.
A big part of that is HuginCore, Volvo’s in-house system that combines the electrical architecture, core computer, zone controllers and software.
It is used in Volvo’s newer software-defined models, namely the EX90, ES90 and EX60, and is intended to help the brand develop features more quickly and push updates across a wider group of vehicles.
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