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Luminar starts shipping lidar for Volvo EX90 — while readying its next-gen sensor
Volvo’s EX90 EV is getting its lidar bits as production nears.
Volvo will use the laser sensor to enable safety and self-driving features in the EX90, making it the “first global consumer vehicle to standardize this technology,” Luminar notes in a press release. The news comes during a “Luminar Day” webcast, where the company is also announcing a new next-generation “Halo” lidar sensor — one that’s designed for mainstream adoption, including in affordable vehicles, at half the cost of its current system. With Luminar’s new Halo sensor, the company is shrinking the overall size of the unit so it adds less than one inch of height to the roof of cars, weighs under one kilogram, and only uses about 10 watts of power.
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