Volvo Cars expands NVIDIA partnership on automated driving

Volvo Cars said on 15 October 2026 that it is expanding its partnership with NVIDIA to develop safer automated-driving technology for future vehicles, extending a collaboration that the company said began in 2017. The announcement said the technology is intended to support door-to-door navigation in complex environments, including highways, busy urban streets and parking scenarios, and will debut in a next-generation Volvo car.

Evidence and context

In the joint announcement, Volvo Cars said the system will combine its vehicle-safety expertise with NVIDIA's AI and accelerated-computing stack, including the Hyperion sensor and compute architecture, Halos OS and Alpamayo Stack driving software. Volvo said the aim is to introduce eyes-off and mind-off driving gradually, while setting a new benchmark for automated driving that is safe, convenient and worthy of customer trust.

He5kan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars, said in the release that Volvo has been "synonymous with car safety for almost 100 years" and that working with NVIDIA combines "industry-leading safety knowledge and world-class AI technology." NVIDIA founder and chief executive Jensen Huang said accelerated computing has turned the car into an intelligent machine that can understand the world around it, adding that the companies are combining Volvo's safety systems with NVIDIA Hyperion and Halos to build a new generation of cars that make driving safer and more effortless.

The announcement is the latest in a sequence of Volvo-NVIDIA collaborations. Background material supplied with the release points to earlier milestones in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2024, including work on DRIVE PX 2, DRIVE PX, a DRIVE AGX Xavier-based core computer, NVIDIA DRIVE Orin for the EX90 and plans for future vehicles later in the decade. On 17 September 2026, Volvo management again referred to NVIDIA Orin core computers and fleet-data-driven AI development in a strategy update.

Volvo Cars said the expanded partnership is intended for its next generation of electric cars and is part of the company's recently announced largest-ever product push. The company also said it sold over 710,000 cars in 2025, with an electrified share of 46%, and employed an average of 42,600 full-time workers that year. Volvo Cars is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker VOLCAR B, and the supplied market data showed the shares at SEK 13.80 as of 15 October 2026, down 2.78% on the day, with a market value of SEK 40.91 billion.

The release and supporting material did not provide a launch date for commercial eyes-off or mind-off driving, and the companies' statements should not be read as proof of a market-ready autonomous-driving system. NVIDIA's release also included standard forward-looking statements warning that development, market acceptance, regulation and integration risks could materially affect outcomes.