Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2017

Volvo Cars plans to set up a new joint venture technology company with Geely Holding, the Chinese car group, to share existing and future technology, to deepen industrial synergies and to provide the economies of scale that will allow them to develop next generation electrified vehicle technology more rapidly.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

Should Volvo take EV maker Polestar (PSNY) private? Polestar built high-performance vehicles alongside Volvo for over two decades. After Geely bought out Volvo, Polestar was established as an independent electric vehicle brand in 2017. He didn’t reveal whether Volvo or Geely was pushing Polestar to go private.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) presented the HX2 autonomous, battery-electric, load carrier at CONEXPO/CON-AGG 2017. Volvo CE showcased the first-generation of the prototype HX machine—HX1—at the company’s Xploration Forum in September last year. The HX2 is fundamentally different to the HX1.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Volvo Cars will introduce a front-wheel drive (FWD), 3-cylinder engine variant of its Twin Engine plug-in hybrid electric vehicle system in 2018, followed by its first production battery-electric vehicles and a new 48V mild hybrid system in 2019, according to Mats Anderson, Senior Director of Electric Propulsion Systems.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Today, we look at the possible effects of the Volkswagen diesel scandal on the company's culture, an early owner shares first impressions of the 2016 Volvo XC90 T8 'Twin Engine' plug-in hybrid, and General Motors prepares to start sales of the 2017 Chevrolet Volt. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2019

Polestar, the electric performance brand jointly owned by Volvo Car Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding, opened its first production facility. Polestar also applies its technology and expertise to electrified Volvo cars. Polestar also announced its World Manufacturing Identifier, which officiates the brand as a standalone car company.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Volvo is seeking to promote economies of scale within the company’s own model range via a separate architecture for most of its products. In today’s model range, for example, the Volvo S60, V60 and XC60 form one cluster. —Peter Mertens, Senior Vice President Research and Development at the Volvo Car Corporation.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 17, 2023

The first SUV from Polestar, the premium electric vehicle maker owned by Geely and Volvo Cars, has been officially unveiled in China, but at a price reduction of about RMB 200,000 yuan ($29,080) from the model's global debut last year. | Polestar.US The plant is expected to make its first deliveries in mid-2024.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The V70 plug-in hybrid demonstrator highlights Volvo’s current PHEV architecture: front-wheel drive combustion engine, electric motor on the rear axle. Volvo concept of a range-extended architecture. Gustavsson said that in the medium- to long-term, Volvo would consider a series hybrid architecture—i.e.,

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment. These insights are distilled into “Volvo Reports” and will feature a different topic each month. Volvo & Electrification ELECTRIFICATION COMMITMENT. Methodology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Polestar, the electric performance car brand jointly owned by Volvo Car Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding, unveiled the Polestar 2 electric fastback in an online reveal from Polestar’s headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden. Polestar 2 will make its first public appearance at the Geneva International Motor Show next week.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. Expect the unexpected, plan on delays.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2018

of total EU car sales in 2017. percentage points between 2014 and 2017. To put this in context, pure battery-electric cars accounted for just 0.7% Electrically-chargeable vehicles (ECVs)—battery-electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles—accounted for 1.5% of total car sales in the EU; the market share of ECVs grew by 0.9

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2017

of new car registrations in the first half of 2017, according to the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ACEA). Diesel’s market share in the EU-15 fell from 50.2% In absolute numbers, 152,323 fewer diesel cars were sold. This drop was offset by an increase in the sale of gasoline engined vehicles.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 21, 2023

Automobilwoche , and Western-counterpart Automotive News , reported that the site will first attempt to tackle the all-electric motors going into the Polestar 5 (a rival for the Tesla Model S) and the Polestar 6 roadster. The 15,000-square-meter building, located in Trollhattan, is said to be focusing on the brand’s powertrain development.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Swedish electric car startup Polestar is already backed by countrymate Volvo, but the automaker is now planning to merge with SPAC Gores Guggenheim to list shares on Nasdaq and raise around $1 billion to expand manufacturing lines. Polestar 2 receives top marks in crash safety tests, living up to its Volvo roots.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2018

Polestar, Volvo Cars’ new electric performance brand, introduced the Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show. The European debut follows its global media reveal in Shanghai, China, in late 2017. Two electric motors drive the rear wheels. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

The report shows that projected global ZEV adoption from 2015 to 2039 (based on the BNEF 2017 forecast) may follow an s-curve, similar to that of smartphone adoption in the US from 2005 to 2015. As of October 2017, 337,483 ZEVs have been sold in California. million unit uptick in 5 years. ZEV sales increased 29.1%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Auto Alliance has sent a letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt requesting that the US Environmental Protection Agency withdraw the Final Determination on the Appropriateness of the Model Year 2022-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards under the Midterm Evaluation which EPA announced on 13 January 2017. Background.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Within the last year, we have seen a 40% increase in the value of our eDrive order book, rising from £2 billion at the end of 2017 to confirmed business now worth £3 billion. It has already supplied complete eDrive systems to plug-in hybrid programs for OEMs including BMW, Mitsubishi, Porsche and Volvo.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

At the Frankfurt Motor Show, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) outlined the industry’s proposal for a pathway to future CO 2 reductions: a 20% CO 2 reduction for passenger cars by 2030, compared to 2021. The latest ACEA data show that in the first half of 2017, electrically-chargeable vehicles made up 1.2%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Systems benchmarked include the high voltage battery pack; inverter; motor; DC/DC converter; on-board charger; HV junction box; HV cables; and HVAC system. Five vehicles were added to the service in 2017, including the Chevrolet Bolt. MY2016 Volvo XC90 T8. MY2016 Toyota Prius. MY2016 Mercedes GLE 550e. MY2016 Tesla Model X.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Ballard Power Systems has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with strategic partner Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Company Limited with the goal of producing fuel cell modules for use in buses and commercial vehicles in select cities and regions in China. In July, Broad-Ocean announced a $28.3-million Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group had modified the striking vehicle, a 2017 Volvo XC90, with a proprietary developmental automated driving system. During a board meeting held to determine the probable cause of the 18 March 2018, Tempe, Arizona crash, the NTSB said an Uber Technologies Inc.

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EV Central

JANUARY 19, 2023

litre four-cylinder turbo-petrol engine mated with a 105kW/350Nm electric motor integrated into the seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission for a combined output of 270kW and 500Nm. This is the third PHEV to be sold by Audi in Australia following on from the 2015-16 A3 e-tron and Q7 e-tron in 2017-18. 2023 Audi Q5 55 TFSI e.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

The preliminary results of the project will be presented at the next ITF Summit in May 2017. It is anchored in the ITF’s Corporate Partnership Board, the organization’s platform for discussions with the private sector. The work will be completed by 2018/19, in time for the first round of reviews of the COP21 decarbonization targets in 2020.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

A recent report printed by the Norwegian Automobile Federation’s magazine, Motor , the downward trend in sales for ICE cars has been so consistent and steep that the last new ICE car to be sold in Norway could happen just seven months from now, in April 2022. 4 Volvo XC40 Electric car 4 995 4.51 11 Volvo XC60 Electric car 2 309 2.08

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 23, 2024

Volvo Cars worked with Swedish taxi companies to test this technology in urban settings. Two Kangoo ZE cars were outfitted with Qualcomm Technologies wireless chargers by Renault Group in 2017. What’s To Expect In The Recent Years Major automakers have been working on wireless charging design concepts in recent years.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 9, 2021

The secret is that Polestar is an electric performance brand from Volvo and its Chinese owner, Geely Holding. It was established in 2017 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where Volvo has been for a long time (although the Polestar 2 is built in China). Inside, the 2021 Polestar 2 shows its Volvo origins.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Competing in the premium midsize SUV category, the 2021 Cadillac XT5 is right in the middle of stiff competition, including models from Acura, Audi, BMW, Genesis, Infiniti, Land Rover, Lexus, Lincoln, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Tesla and Volvo. First Drive: 2017 Land Rover Discovery. News: BMW iX EV.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Polestar has released a performance-oriented software upgrade for the Polestar 2 Long-range Dual-motor in selected European markets. Polestar was established as a new, standalone Swedish premium electric vehicle manufacturer in 2017. Pricing is on average €1,000 with local variances in certain markets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Harmonized rules for Phase 2 should apply to new vehicle types starting as of 2017, says ACEA. starting in 2017 for all new vehicle types), ACEA suggests the Type 2/Type 2 Combo to be used in the EU as the. The auto industry advocates full implementation for new vehicle types from 2017. This provides the.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 5, 2021

kW electric motor. This process can be viewed on the instrument cluster where you can watch the power flow into and out of the battery and motor. The motor driven power steering was well tuned for road feel; maneuvering in town, especially parking, was easy due to a very compact 17.5 Road Test: 2021 Volvo SC90 Recharge PHEV.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The only upgrade is the Plaid version that features even faster acceleration from three motors, producing sub-two second 0-60 runs. First Drive: 2017 Tesla Model X P100D ; Tesla Continues to Get Mixed Marks ; Flash Drive: Tesla Model 3. Volvo and its sister company Polestar has just started selling its EVs.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

In the 12 months since sharing the forecast below, multiple new crossover/SUV EVs including the Mustang Mach-E, Volvo EC40 Recharge, Polestar 2, Tesla Model Y Standard Range, Nissan Ariya, VW ID.4, If you think about General Motors, we are strong in the middle of the country. Mary Barra, CEO – General Motors.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

4 (all models) (2021- 2022 ) $4,000 VOLVO C40 (2022) $4,000 XC40 Recharge (2021- 2022 ) $4,000 Last updated 1/23/2024, most recent changes in bold The Audi Q5 TFSI e Quattro.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 18, 2023

(Image credit: Polestar) Polestar 4, the new model from Polestar, the premium electric vehicle maker owned by Geely and Volvo Cars, went on sale in China with a starting price range that is higher than Tesla's Model Y. seconds, the dual-motor all-wheel drive Model Y Long Range in 5.0 The Polestar 4 has a CLTC range of 612 km to 709 km.

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