Volvo 560 Mile EVS plan from mid-decade: electric road map

Volvo expects its electric vehicle to approach double that from the third generation 800V battery architecture, although it is not possible to arrive until the mid-decade, the car maker said. Before that, Volvo plans to transition to the second gen platform, starting with the Volvo XC90 new SUV which is expected to debut in 2022 along with a gathering of new electrical and autonomous features. 

The new XC90 – which will have a name, rather than being “XC90 XC90,” which has just been seduced today – will be the first of the Swedish car maker vehicles to use a new spa2 platform. It will bring not only a new sensor like Luminar Lidar – join the camera, ultrasonic, radar, and other sensors – but Volvocars.OS, the company’s new operating system for its vehicle.

There will be many waiting for the XC90 and this second generation battery architecture. One feature will be a two-way charging, for example, which will allow the vehicle to act as a cellphone battery and the feed power returns to the grid at high demand. “This means that the volvo electricity driver can provide energy to the grid when CO2 prices and emissions related to electricity production are at the peak of their daily,” company advice, “filling their car when emissions fell.”

Charging, it will also be faster. The purpose of Volvo is to divide two charging times needed for phase 10 to 80 percent, the most efficient. In Gen 2 EV, it aims to push beyond 200 kW rates.

However, let’s Gen 3 EV, it will support a full 350 KW 800V full charging. Volvo expects the range of Gen 3 EVs to approach double, because of the increase in batteries and vehicles. It could mean around 900 kilometers (560 miles) in the WLTP test cycle.

Third generation electric cars must start arriving from mid-decade, Volvo said. It will also better integrate the battery into the vehicle structure, build it to the floor of the car and tap the cell structure itself for improvement in the overall rigidity of the vehicle and EV efficiency.

Challenges – Because all car makers with aggressive electrification targets face – whether to ensure there is enough battery production to meet the demands of the vehicle. In 2020, even with a strong hybrid plug-in sale, Volvo said it needed 4 hours of gigawatt hours of battery. However, in the middle of this decade, he predicts that it will rise to 70 gigawatt hours.

Improving power density and manufacturing expansion will be important to overcome them. Volvo has worked with Northvolt on the first, predicting an increase in “near terms” to 50 percent of energy density in cells compared to what is offered today. Then in this decade, Volvo said, he believed violating 1,000 WH / L of energy density was possible, at a point of 1,000+ km (620 miles) the ranging possibility.

For production, meanwhile, Volvo and Northvolt plan to open the new “Gigafactory” for batteries in Europe. It is expected to start manufacturing in 2026, in the end it will be able to provide up to 50 gigawatt cells every year. Before that, Volvo would source 15 gigawatt hours from 2024 from the Northvolt factory in Sweden.

Volvo previously said that all-electric successors for medium XC60 SUVs would be the first to get a volvo / Northstar battery developed together. By 2030, Volvo aims to only sell fully electric cars.