Bell stated the spa3 is “an enormous step from a mechanical perspective, however from a software program digital perspective it’s a straight evolution”.

He added: ‘All of the work we do within the ex90 will even go straight into the spa3 vehicles. That is principally the identical software program stack.

“Spa3 has been designed from the start to be very scalable, in dimension and value level and throughout the areas, but in addition scalable in quantity.”

“It’s designed for scale in each dimension: My job is to ensure the enterprise has optionality. We design (the spa3) to scale from B to F (segments), to ensure we’ve flexibility and that we are able to introduce the merchandise that markets determine what they need when they need it.”

Since all future new Volvo fashions will share the identical primary technical stack, Bell added that it’s going to allow extra centered and speedy growth. “As a result of it is already one technological stack, there is no repetition of labor,” he stated. ‘It is the identical software program stack, the identical primary electrical structure. Sure, it’s scalable in dimension, value and capabilities, however it doesn’t unfold our merchandise in several ecosystems.

“The whole lot we do marry the Volvo -linked automobile cloud. For those who take a look at profitable technical corporations, these are all single technical staple corporations the place all their merchandise are linked. Apple is an efficient instance: {hardware}, software program, telephones, laptops, they’re principally all related to the identical software program. That is one instance of the place we should always come collectively as a know-how firm sooner or later.

“Our focus is security, sustainability and the creation of this improbable buyer expertise, all wrapped on this Scandinavian design, on one technical stack.”

As beforehand unveiled by Autocar, the ex60 will even be the primary Volvo designed to make the most of megacasting – a know-how that might be launched with the spa3 that may create your entire components of a automobile as a single half slightly than a number of components.

This, together with different adjustments and the extra modular nature of the spa3, will scale back manufacturing prices.