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.

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.