Tag: Volvo

July 5, 2022

Volvo Group Venture Capital AB invests in Optibus Ltd, that develops and provides optimization software for public transportation planning and management. The investment highlights the companies’ shared commitment to sustainable bus fleets and more efficient transportation operations. High quality, sustainable […]

January 14, 2022

The Volvo VNR Electric is one of Volvo Trucks six all-electric heavy truck models and is specially designed for the North American market. Sales start was in December 2020. The first generation of Volvo VNR Electric had an operating range […]

October 14, 2021

Volvo Autonomous Solutions announced its first major steps toward the autonomous Volvo VNL model in North America, drawing on its partnership with Aurora Innovation Inc., a self-driving vehicle technology company. A prototype of Volvo Trucks’ flagship longhaul VNL model was […]

June 21, 2021

Volvo Car Group and Swedish battery maker Northvolt AB will jointly build an electric car battery factory in the latest move by European manufacturers to localize cell production in the region. The Chinese-owned carmaker and Northvolt will build a factory […]

November 2, 2020

The ambition of both partners is to make the new company a leading global manufacturer of fuel cells, and thus help the world take a major step towards climate-neutral and sustainable transportation by 2050. The Volvo Group will acquire 50% […]

March 25, 2020

Aston Martin Aston Martin has announced that it will temporarily suspend all manufacturing operations at its Gayden, Newport Pagnell and St Athan plants in the UK, following the Prime Minister’s call for non-essential businesses to temporarily shut down. The plants […]

March 20, 2020

Volvo will temporarily stop production at its U.S. factory and three plants in Sweden. All four plants will be closed from March 26 until April 14 as Volvo joins other automakers and suppliers in stopping production to help slow the […]

March 4, 2020

Operations at a Volvo facility in Sweden are now running only on renewable energy, according to the firm. The Volvo Buses plant in the city of Boras — which has the capacity to produce around 10,000 bus chassis annually and […]

October 7, 2019

Rival Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), which is in the midst of ramping up mass production of electric cars, has already warned its in-house suppliers to create structures to consolidate combustion engine assets. Volvo currently builds 600,000 combustion engines, a number that rises […]

April 17, 2019

NEW YORK — Volvo isn’t letting up on pushing for sweeping changes to how new vehicles are sold — whether auto dealers like it or not. At a conference affiliated with this week’s New York auto show, Anders Gustafsson, CEO […]

March 6, 2019

(Reuters) – Volvo Cars, owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co, will not sell its all-electric Polestar models in the United States if the company faces tariffs on exports from China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. “The business […]

January 24, 2019

FRANKFURT/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Volvo Cars, which is owned by China’s Geely, could in future seek external investors for its Polestar electric car brand and list the unit on the stock market but has no immediate plans to do so, the […]

September 27, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has preliminarily awarded $44.8 million to SCAQMD for the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project. The Volvo LIGHTS project will involve 16 partners, and transform freight operations at the facilities of […]

September 5, 2018

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Volvo Cars presented a fully electric robo-taxi on Wednesday, as the Geely-owned Swedish company races to meet an ambitious target for driverless vehicle sales with its Uber supply deal on hold. Besides city driving, Volvo said the […]

June 19, 2018

Volvo, the Swedish vehicle manufacturer, has announced a target to use 25% recycled plastic in all new vehicles it produces by 2025. The news follows the firm’s recent commitment to ban single-use plastics in its premises and events by the […]

April 24, 2018

General Motors and Volvo have partnered with Amazon to offer customers in-vehicle delivery of packages in the United States. The service will be available for both automakers’ vehicles beginning Tuesday in 37 cities with plans to expand the service coast […]

March 26, 2018

BMW is ultimately driving out of the 2019 Detroit Auto Show, preferring to focus on the Consumer Electronics Show earlier in January for breaking news and launching models. This defection comes on the heels of the recent announcement by Mercedes-Benz […]

March 12, 2018

GENEVA — Polestar wants to break away from electrified vehicle startups’ reputation for delayed production. The performance brand spun out of Volvo Cars is finalizing production plans for its first vehicle, the Polestar 1 hybrid coupe. As electrified vehicle startups […]

November 27, 2017

If you really want to get a sense of the international existence of car companies in the 21st century, then the production of the Volvo XC40, which started last week, is an excellent example. Volvo Cars, of course, which was […]

October 12, 2017

Worldwide sales of connected cars are projected to grow from fewer than 7 million units in 2015 to almost 61 million in 2020, generating $141 billion revenue for the auto industry and giving commuters new ways to make rush hour […]