---
title: "Drive Wire: Volvo Is Testing Digital Key Technology"
description: "Who needs keys anyways?"
date: "2016-02-24"
modified: "2016-02-24"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/2314/drive-wire-volvo-is-testing-digital-key-technology"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Volvo"
---

# Drive Wire: Volvo Is Testing Digital Key Technology

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Volvo is testing new technology that will replace your car keys with your smartphone, giving you both a convenient new path to vehicle entry and one less thing to remember when running out the door. Drivers with the app will be able to do everything they could with a fob, but they'll now be able to send digital copies of their keys to trustworthy friends and family. Volvo says they'll start offering digital keys in 2017.

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