Volvo has announced that it is delaying the introduction of its new flagship electric SUV, the EX90, by as much as six months to mid-2024.
Volvo CEO Jim Rowan made the announcement during Volvo’s earnings call, which he stated that the delay is caused by “the complexity of the software code” with the EX90’s LiDAR system. It looks like Volvo’s engineers are having issues with integrating the technology into the EX90’s SPA2 platform.
“We’re writing a lot of [the] software ourselves. We wanted to make sure that the first time we put lidar into our safety stack … it operates in the way it should,” Jim Rowan stated according to Automotive News.
Production of the Volvo EX90 was supposed to begin in late 2023 at Volvo’s plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina, but now it’s probably not going to start until sometime in 2024.
