Mumbai, July 2 -- Volvo Cars, one of the leading luxury car manufacturers, announced that its next-gen electric cars will run the company's proprietary operating software (OS), VolvoCars.OS.

The company says the move is after considering the current trend of a car being increasingly defined by software-driven functions and features rather than traditional automotive attributes. The updates will be provided in over-the-air fashion throughout the lifetime of the car.

The software incorporates various operating systems across the cloud, creating one coherent OS environment, and will be based on Android Automotive OS, QNX, Autosar and Linux. It will use various application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow developers to create new serv...