Volvo Collaborates With Google To Develop Android Infotainment System

Henrik Green, Senior Vice President Research & Development, Volvo Car Group, said, "We are making an important strategic step with the Google partnership. Google's platform and services will enhance the user experience by enabling more personalisation possibilities, while Android will offer increased flexibility from a development perspective. With the advent of Android we will embrace a rich ecosystem while keeping our iconic Volvo user interface. We will offer hundreds of popular apps and the best integrated experience in this broad, connected environment.

Volvo believes employing Android as the base operating system will not only increase speed and flexibility in the development of in-car services but will also offer its customers the ability to personalise their connected in-car experience.

Patrick Brady, Vice President of Android Engineering, Google, remarked, "We're thrilled to partner with Volvo to bring Android into their next generation connected cars. This partnership gives us the opportunity to deliver a more seamless experience to Volvo drivers through a full-featured infotainment platform and rich ecosystem of Android applications and Google services."

Other than the co-operation for the development of the aforementioned services, Volvo is also collaborating with Google on another initiative to update recent Volvo models by adding Google Local Search, a location based service application. This will be released through an update to customers with Sensus Navigation.