Uber orders up to 24,000 Volvo SUVs for its self-driving fleet

Uber orders up to 24,000 Volvo SUVs for its self-driving fleet

The XC90 starts at $47,000, so this could be a pretty substantial purchase — over $1 billion worth of cars, to be exact. Uber and Volvo previously signed a $300 million pact, and Volvo, based in Sweden but owned by China’s Geely Auto, is using the proceeds to develop its own driverless cars. It has …