Volvo Will Refuel Your S90 If You're Too Lazy To Do It Yourself

Tired of wasting precious minutes refuelling or dropping your car off for a service? You're in luck, but only if you've bought a high-end Volvo and live in San Francisco
Volvo Will Refuel Your S90 If You're Too Lazy To Do It Yourself

Not looking forward to taking your brand new Volvo S90 or XC90 to filling stations, getting it serviced or even getting it cleaned? Of course you’re not. We can’t think of a single person who enjoys the daily involvement of actually owning a car. Sigh.

Apparently, though, the sort of San Franciscoite who buys a high-end Volvo doesn’t want to do any of these ugly, dirty, time-wasteful tasks, because the Swedish company has plans to enrol as many as 300 owners into a pilot scheme to take all that off their hands via a smartphone app.

Volvo Will Refuel Your S90 If You're Too Lazy To Do It Yourself

That’s right. Volvo-owning San Franciscons will be able to park their car up in the morning and dial V for Volvo, after which someone presumably called Jeeves, Quimby or Herbert will turn up, take the car away using a one-time-use digital key and see that whatever work needs to be done is carried out. From a simple wash n’ wax to a full service, and even just refuelling if you don’t fancy doing it yourself.

The car can either be dropped off where you left it or taken to somewhere completely different, which, we’ll concede, is probably pretty awesome if you’re an executive type whose job takes you state-wide on a daily basis.

One very obvious thing is missing from the official info, though: how much it’ll cost. At the moment it seems to be free, but that’s too good to be true. The pilot starts this month, so I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

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Comments

Anonymous

This is probably the Volvo’s fuel. Thats why its premium models only.

11/18/2016 - 13:44 |
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Joshua Lue

I dont like somebody moving my car around a service centre, let alone letting someone coming along and taking it to get fuel.

Just remember it’s not their volvo…

11/18/2016 - 13:44 |
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Emite45

Leaked picture of the owners who will use this :

11/18/2016 - 13:47 |
230 | 0

nice one

11/18/2016 - 14:28 |
2 | 1

Hahaha was thinking of a funny meme, then this came up… perfect!

11/18/2016 - 18:14 |
4 | 0

Haha Wall-E nostalgia :D

11/19/2016 - 11:02 |
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The_Import_Kid

Pretty soon, the cars will take over and the human race will become slaves to them…

Too soon?

11/18/2016 - 13:50 |
26 | 0

Aren’t we already? We maintain their various parts, we go on dates with them, we caress them when we wash them and we buy them gifts

11/18/2016 - 14:14 |
19 | 0

Fun fact: I’m not Takumi.

Anticipate the uprising.

11/19/2016 - 05:40 |
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nobody 1

Sweden: you build their furniture, they fuel your car.

11/18/2016 - 14:04 |
44 | 0

lol good one!

11/18/2016 - 16:24 |
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Anonymous

Well, if it’s free then fill my car up, rather than me getting AUD$30 worth of fuel every time my fuel gauge scares me

11/18/2016 - 14:12 |
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Quinn Kirlew

Sewwwwww fawnsehhhhh

11/18/2016 - 15:35 |
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DannyWRX

OR just move to New Jersey.

11/18/2016 - 15:38 |
2 | 0

Lol not after this stupid gas tax has gone into effect.

11/18/2016 - 15:58 |
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Anonymous

I’ve voiced my opinion on something similar to this on reddit when a $100k mercedes came in with skipped services. If I’m paying that much money for a car, I expect it to come with free service for the period of the warranty. Additionally said services should be rendered completely transparent to my own standard of living, the car gets picked up, serviced and returned all the while I’m working. It’s not like the cars can’t be tracked down, and if they can monitor for air bag deployment they sure as hell can monitor the odometer.

11/18/2016 - 15:51 |
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Anonymous

How am I suppose to take proper care of my car if I’m not the one doing it?

11/18/2016 - 16:29 |
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