Volvo partners with Google to bring Google Assistant, YouTube to their cars

Volvo partners with Google to bring Google Assistant, YouTube to their cars

MANILA: 2022 will be the year of saying "Hey, Google!" on the road more as Volvo Cars will start integrating Google assistant and more Google Services with their models.

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  • How will Google Assistant work with Volvo EVs?

    Through Google Assistant devices that are paired to a Volvo, drivers can use voice command and ask Google to warm up the car or lock the car doors.
  • How will drivers be able to use YouTube in Volvo EVs?

    When the Volvo is fully stationary, drivers can watch YouTube content through the car's infotainment screen.
  • As part of the carmaker's partnership with Google, the integration will allow drivers to control functions of their car through voice commands to Google Assistant-enabled home and mobile devices.

    By pairing their Volvo vehicles with their Google account, drivers can directly talk to Google to remotely control a variety of functionalities, such as warming the car up on a cold winter day or locking its doors. Volvo Google Assistant Meanwhile, YouTube will be the first video platform to be featured and available for download in Volvo electric cars.

    With YouTube in a Volvo EV infotainment, drivers can watch livestreams, news, shows, and various content while the car is charging. Volvo emphasized that YouTube only works when the car is stationary.  

    Volvo YouTube

    In a release, Volvo said that it aims to turn its cars into "smart devices" with Google Assistant and YouTube. The carmaker added that its cars can become an "extension of drivers’ living environment." 

    The applications will also work well with the car's "audio system that can rival many home set-ups" and interior that possesses "inherent restful nature," noise reduction, and comfortable seating. 

    Volvo and Google announced customers will soon be able to download for their cars navigation apps like Sygic and Flitsmeister, charging apps like Chargepoint and Plugshare, and parking apps like SpotHero and ParkWhiz in select markets. 

    Volvo XC40 PHEV

    Photos from Volvo

    Also read: Volvo to team up with Qualcomm to improve infotainment technology

    Dylan Afuang

    Dylan Afuang

    Growing up in the 2000s, Dylan browsed through car magazines before reading proper books, and watched motoring TV shows as often as he did cartoons. So, talking about cars came natural to him. His dream car is the Honda S2000.

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