STUTS' new view and Volvo's EV car for the future. | feature

With a new view of STUTS,
Volvo's EV car running into the future.

These days, we hear the term "electric vehicle" more and more. The XC40 Recharge Ultimate Twin Motor, an electric vehicle (EV) created by Volvo, a Swedish company born in Scandinavia, a country known for its advanced environmental technologies, is a vehicle that will drive us toward a new future of automobiles. The person who test-drove this Volvo EV this time was STUTS, who continues to make fresh music with the MPC as his weapon of choice, and who also drives a Volvo in his private life. We asked him to take a short cruise around Tokyo behind the wheel of a Volvo EV.

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PROFILE

STUTS.

As an MPC player, producer, and trackmaker, he also works with a variety of musicians to produce music. Last year, he started a music group called "Mirage Collective," which he produces, and is scheduled to hold his first solo performance "90 Degrees" at the Budokan on June 23, 2023 (Friday). Their activities are attracting a lot of attention.
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Gasoline and EV vehicles are different from the moment you get in the car.

It's my first time driving an EV, so I'm really looking forward to it."

STUTS drives a car four to five days a week, and although his private car is a Volvo, it is a gasoline-powered car, so this is his first time driving an electric car.

This is the first Volvo I've bought by myself. I looked at cars from various manufacturers, and I liked the atmosphere of the interior and the appearance of the exterior, and I thought it was just right in many ways. （It's easy to drive and I feel like I'm getting used to it. The XC40 Recharge Ultimate Twin Motor I'm driving this time is a cool color, and it looks a bit bigger than my car.

As we talked about this, I got into the driver's seat, and the first surprise happened.

This car doesn't have a start button...!"

Yes, the "XC40 Recharge Ultimate Twin Motor" works by sitting in the driver's seat with the smart key, depressing the brake pedal and operating the shift knob. The vertical display shows navigation, and this system has Google built in. The Google Assistant has high voice recognition performance, so if you vocalize the name of your destination, it will recognize it almost perfectly. The monitor also displays the estimated remaining battery power at the time of arrival as well as the time required to get there.

I'll set the destination to be near Haneda Airport. (He vocalized Haneda Airport.) Oh, this is very convenient, and it's easy to use because (the operation method) is the same as on a smart phone.

The luminous shift knob is handcrafted in crystal by craftsmen from the 120-year-old Swedish company Orefoss, and the 360° view camera shows the car's position and surrounding obstacles to assist in parking the car.