Volvo Cars embraces new consolidated EV technology approach

The Chinese-Swedish automaker has unveiled a reconfigurable and customizable technology stack called the “Volvo Cars Superset” which comprises various systems, modules, software and hardware that will be used in all its future electric vehicles as it seeks to ensure that its cars “get better with time.”

Thanks to the arrival of software-defined vehicles (SDVs), automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are rethinking their traditional approaches to vehicle design and development. Their focus is shifting toward software and hardware lifecycle innovations and accelerating time-to-market, necessitating enhanced collaboration and integration of practices from other industries. SDVs are enabling these OEMs to deliver backward-compatible features and timely software updates over-the-air, improving vehicles post-sale.