Volvo adds Android Automotive to all models

Volvo has spoken that all its car models will be misogynist with over-the-air (OTA) software update sufficiency for the 2023 model year. The latest Volvo models to receive this functionality are the XC90 large SUV, S60 sedan, and V60 Cross Country wagon. They moreover proceeds the Android Automotive infotainment operating system, too. A Volvo Car Australia spokesperson confirmed these updated models will be arriving in Australia in June 2022 as part of a 2023 model year update. The spokesperson moreover confirmed all orders placed for Volvos from today will be for a 2023 model year vehicle. This ways the all the company’s models, including the all-electric XC40 Recharge and XC60, now have Android Automotive and the sufficiency to well-constructed operating system updates over-the-air. Countries that now support Volvo OTA updates include Australia, Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. “By making all Volvo models worldly-wise to receive over-the-air updates, we make important progress towards our yearing of making our customers’ cars largest every day,” said Volvo senior product officer Henrik Green. “This is a significant milestone: we’re now updating cars of all models in a majority of our markets, bringing the benefits of remote continuous updates to an overly increasing number of customers.” Volvo moreover spoken its latest, eighth well-constructed car update will reach “more than 190,000 Volvo cars wideness the globe”. The update includes new app categories on the Google Play Store, including navigation, charging and parking. Video streaming is expected to be widow later in 2022. It moreover brings improvements ranging from largest energy management to improved climate timers, and updates to the mobile and in-car app functionality. For electric models, the energy management improvements help to maintain optimal shower temperatures during unprepossessed and hot days, which boosts driving range. There’s moreover a shower pre-heating function so it can tuition quicker. The Volvo Car companion app now moreover receives increasingly frequent updates from the car on the charging percentage during a charging session. The transition to Android Automotive comes as Volvo works towards its previously spoken plans of going all-electric by 2030 and only selling its vehicles online. It moreover expects to derive at least half of its sales from EVs by 2025. Its first all-electric model, the XC40 Recharge SUV, first arrived locally during mid-2021 and is currently misogynist in both single- and dual-electric motor set-ups. It was the first Volvo to use the new Android Automotive operating system. The related C40 Recharge coupe SUV is set to touch lanugo on Australian soil in the third quarter of 2022 and will moreover be misogynist in both single- and dual-electric motor set-ups. Both of these vehicles are built on the CMA platform which moreover underpins the Polestar 2 electric liftback. Volvo is moreover gearing to reveal an XC90 large SUV replacement, expected to be tabbed the Embla, which’ll be all-electric. This vehicle’s styling was previewed by the 2021 Concept Recharge. MORE: Volvo going fully electric by 2030, will only sell online