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Volvo Cars building €1.2B EV manufacturing plant in Slovakia; third in Europe

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars will build a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential. Volvo Cars has an ambition to move towards annual sales of 1.2 The new facility represents an investment of around €1.2

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Volvo Cars? Chengdu car plant powered by 100% renewable electricity; 65% hydropower

Green Car Congress

The 100% renewable electricity mix in Chengdu is the result of a newly signed supply contract and will reduce the plant’s CO 2 emissions by more than 11,000 tonnes per year. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company. These and other measures are part of the climate plan Volvo Cars launched late last year.

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Volvo Cars launches all-electric Volvo C40 Recharge; all cars to be pure electric by 2030

Green Car Congress

Following the introduction of the XC40 Recharge and now the C40 Recharge, Volvo Cars will roll out several additional electric models in coming years. By 2025, Volvo Cars aims for 50% of its global sales volume to consist of fully electric cars, with the rest hybrids.

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Tesla gets approval for 4 models for India

Electric Vehicles India

He also told that India treats electric vehicles as petrol vehicles, which is not consistent with the country’s climate goals. Import duties in India range between 60 per cent to 100 per cent on cars brought from abroad. The Model 3 is the first electric car to pass 1 million cumulative sales.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

We’d have liked knobs for climate control rather than having to use the central screen—we ended up using Android voice, but not every buyer will want to do that. The Volvo XC40 Recharge isn’t the only battery-electric vehicle from Volvo/Geely to go on sale in the US. The electric XC40 comes from Ghent, Belgium, incidentally.

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SiliconRepublic.com: IBM to build smart grid for electric cars - R&D

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Market introduction and investment plans under the EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) in Denmark will result in upwards of 10pc of the country’s vehicles being all electric or hybrid electric during the coming years. .

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Road Test: 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin AWD Ultimate

Clean Fleet Report

With three EVs currently on sale in America—the EX90, XC40 and C40, in 2025 joined by the EX30—Volvo is well on the way to achieving its environmental goals. Our focus is on vehicles that offer the best fuel economy in their class, which leads us to emphasize electric cars, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and diesels.