The car industry is not known for its rapid adoption of new technologies. Therefore, it's even more exciting to see a company like Volvo Cars embracing Rust for core components of their software stack.
We talked to Julius Gustavsson, System Architect at Volvo Cars, about the use of Rust for their Electronic Control Units (ECUs) in Volvo's EX90 and Polestar 3 models and how they are building a Rust ecosystem within the company.
About Volvo
Volvo Cars is a Swedish premium car manufacturer founded in 1927. The company is known for its focus on robustness, safety, and sustainability. Its headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden, and it has manufacturing plants in Sweden, Belgium, China, and the United States.
About Julius Gustavsson
Prior to Volvo Cars, Julis worked at Ericsson, among other companies. His background is in embedded systems and software development. His master's thesis was about System-on-Chip (SoC) design.
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Links From The Episode (In Chronological Order)

• SPA2 - The automotive platform using Rust
• ASIL - Automotive Safety Standard
• Ferrocene - Rust toolchain for critical systems
• Rust 2018 - First edition with support for ARM in stable
• Grepit - Contractors who worked with Volvo
• UDS - Universal automotive diagnostic standard
• CBOR - JSON, but binary
• serde - Super awesome serialization/deserialization crate
• probe-rs - Flashing and debugging embedded chips as simple as uploading PHP files to a webserver
• SBOM - Ingredients of your compiled binary
• Rust in Production: cURL with Daniel Stenberg - Find cURL in an SBOM near you!
• Zuul CI - CI tool with speculative merging support
• Robot Framework - BDD testing for hardware
• clippy::pedantic - clippy on hard mode
• heapless - When you want a heap but only have a stack
• AUTOSAR Classic - automotive framework with Rust support
• Volvo tech blog: Why Rust is actually good for your car
• Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line - Tweede Golf - Blog post about Volvo Cars using Rust
• Safety Critical Rust Consortium - Aiming to make Rust a fully viable alternative for safety critical software

Official Links

• Volvo Cars
• Julius Gustavsson on LinkedIn
• Julius Gustavsson on Mastodon