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Volvo previews EX60 with conversational AI.
Volvo is teeing up the reveal of its new all-electric EX60 medium SUV for this Wednesday, January 21, and it’s leaning hard into the idea that your next car should be more like a helpful co-driver than a rolling iPad.
The headline feature is Google’s Gemini AI assistant, making the EX60 the first Volvo to launch with Gemini built in. Volvo says it enables “true natural conversation” and hands-free, multi-turn requests, so drivers don’t have to memorise rigid voice commands.
Volvo’s Chief Engineering and Technology Officer Anders Bell calls the EX60 “the company’s most intelligent and technologically advanced car to date”, built around a new core system called HuginCore.
“The new EX60 is full of human-centric technology designed to enhance your life behind the wheel,” Bell said. “HuginCore, our state-of-the-art system of hardware and software, combines our in-house developed technology with the best services and technologies from tech leaders such as Google, NVIDIA and Qualcomm Technologies. It creates discreet yet cutting-edge tech that works quietly in the background to support you.”
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Volvo says Gemini is deeply integrated and personalised, handling complex tasks through conversation while helping keep eyes off the central display. Examples include pulling a hotel address from your email, checking whether something you’ve bought will fit in the boot, or brainstorming a road trip plan.
Under the skin, HuginCore is described as Volvo’s latest “software-defined car” foundation, spanning the electrical architecture, core computer, zone controllers and software. It also underpins continuous over-the-air updates, with Volvo saying the car will improve over time.
The EX60’s computing stack pairs Qualcomm’s next-generation Snapdragon Cockpit Platform with the Snapdragon Auto Connectivity Platform, including four years of complimentary unlimited data. Volvo also fits the Nvidia Drive platform, using the Nvidia Drive AGX Orin system-on-a-chip running DriveOS.
Volvo claims the EX60 can handle over 250 trillion operations per second (TOPS), supporting a more responsive infotainment experience and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that learn from real-world events across Volvo’s global fleet, including accidents and near-misses.
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Volvo says the EX60 can travel up to 810km on a single charge in an all-wheel drive configuration (WLTP, preliminary). It also claims up to 340km of range can be added in 10 minutes using a 400kW fast charger.
The full reveal on January 21, 2026 will be livestreamed by Volvo.
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