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Volvo Cars and Geely Auto to deepen collaboration; new combined powertrain company

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars and Geely Auto have agreed on a wide-ranging collaboration that will maximize the strengths of the Swedish and Chinese automotive groups, delivering synergies in powertrains, sharing of electric vehicle architecture, joint procurement, autonomous drive technologies and aftersales.

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Volvo Cars sales down 17.2% in February, share of electrified cars increased to 33%

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars reported sales of 42,067 cars in February, a decline by 17.2% Sales of Volvo Cars’ Recharge models made up for 33.0% of all Volvo cars sold globally during the month. Sales of fully electric cars increased by 229.5% Fully electric cars increased by 174.9% of total sales.

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Volvo EX30 is 2024 World Urban Car

Electric Cars Report

The fully electric Volvo EX30 has landed a big accolade at the prestigious World Car Awards. Beating out a competitive field of nominees, the EX30 was awarded the title of 2024 World Urban Car in a presentation held at the 2024 New York International Auto Show.

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Volvo Cars’ connected safety technology can alert drivers of accidents ahead – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The Accident Ahead Alert feature is currently available in Denmark on all 90, 60 and 40 series Volvo car models, from model year 2016 and onwards. Suddenly, your Volvo car alerts you: there’s been an accident ahead. As you calmly decelerate and come around the next curve, you see a crashed car in your lane.

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Geely Auto forms new premium electric car company Zeekr; SEA EV architecture

Green Car Congress

Geely Auto Group (Geely Auto) officially announced the widely reported formation of Zeekr—a new electric mobility technology and solutions company based in China that will serve growing global demand for premium electric vehicles.

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Volvo Reaches 44% Plugin Vehicles

CleanTechnica EVs

of the US auto market last year, compared to 16% in. continued] The post Volvo Reaches 44% Plugin Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica. Full battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for just 7.2%

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Volvo Cars reports sales of 58,667 cars worldwide in March, down 22.1%; electrified share increased to 36%

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars reported sales of 58,677 cars worldwide in March, a decline by 22.1% During the first quarter, the number of cars sold increased gradually to a total of 148,295 cars as the supply chain constraints affecting Volvo Cars and the auto industry continued to slowly ease. of total sales.

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