Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

Volvo Car has enhanced its mobile app, Volvo On Call, with a new design, extra features and added vehicle connectivity. The app also enables users to connect with the plug-in diesel V60 Hybrid. New functions specific to the V60 D6 AWD Plug-in Diesel Hybrid incude: Passenger compartment preconditioning. Car in motion.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2011

Three Volvo car models will be taking part in the 11 th Michelin Challenge Bibendum in Berlin (18-22 May 2011), the theme of which is Clean-Safe-Connected: the Volvo V60 Plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Volvo C30 Electric; and the Volvo V50 DRIVe. The driving range is up to 50 km (31 miles). l/100 km (124 mpg US)).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

The Volvo FE Hybrid ( earlier post ) is propelled in parallel by an electric motor and a diesel engine, making possible fuel savings of up to 30%, and is equipped with a battery pack weighing 578 kg (1,274 lbs). —Carl Johan Almqvist, Traffic and Product Safety Director at Volvo Trucks. —Ulf Torgilsman.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

Three teams—Four Motors, Tuning Akademie, and HEICO Sportive—will use Neste Oil’s Diesel regenerativ, produced from 100% renewable raw materials, in their cars in the ADAC 24-Hour Race to be held at the Nürburgring circuit between 17 and 20 May. mile) circuit in this year’s event.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 1, 2021

Volvo has been talking about going electric a lot lately. The XC90, as Volvo’s largest SUV, is currently its most popular model in the United States. The XC90, as Volvo’s largest SUV, is currently its most popular model in the United States. As they’re Volvo seats, they’re supremely supportive and comfortable.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Key learnings from Volvo’s SuperTruck ( earlier post ) efforts played a critical role in the design and engineering of Volvo Trucks North America’s recently introduced 2017 powertrain, delivering improved fuel efficiency and performance to customers. Earlier post.). Wave Piston.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The city revealed the new truck in Coastal Waste & Recycling colors at a local e-mobility event last week. Electrek’s Take While conceptually similar to the recently revealed Volvo FM Low Entry cabover on sale in Europe, Volvo-owned Mack Trucks has successfully maintained its own identity.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Volvo Group’s subsidiary Mack Trucks has delivered a pre-production Mack LR Electric model ( earlier post ) to Republic Services to begin in-service trials in the demanding refuse segment. Mack and Republic made the announcement during a virtual press event at Mack World Headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

This time, it is Volvo. Volvo C30 plug-in hybrid concept AutoBlogGreen "German auto website, Autobild, is reporting that Volvo is working on a plug-in diesel-electric hybrid with a similar powertrain design to the Chevy Volt concept unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show in early January. Join Plug In Partners today.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

This past week was certainly quite a whirlwind of EV news and developments from Volvo’s plans to end production of ICE vehicles by 2030, yet another proposal to reform the federal EV tax credit, chip shortages, Washington state’s plans to ban ICE vehicles by 2030, Lucid Air delay, Fisker to partner with Foxconn, and much, much more.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2015

A team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) with colleagues from the US, China and Germany tested 73 Euro 6 diesel passenger cars on a chassis dynamometer over both the European type-approval cycle (NEDC, cold engine start) and the more realistic Worldwide harmonized light-duty test cycle (WLTC version 2.0,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Bus operator Sales-Lentz will use the charger to recharge electric hybrid buses from Volvo. The charging station has been installed at Gare de Bertrange/Strassen and will fully charge Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid buses with 150 kW of charging power in three to six minutes, during the layover times at the bus route’s end points.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

At a launch event at the National Press Club in Washington DC, PACT Chairperson and Volvo Group VP of Public Affairs Dawn Fenton explained PACT’s focus on educating industry stakeholders, including legislators, regulators, fleet owners, utilities and other policymakers.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Speaking of fires in cars fueled by gasoline or diesel, he says, “It’s an everyday event. As a result, the occasional gasoline-fueled car fires one sees on the side of the highway can be treated, Kohl notes, as “an un-event.” “The For cars running on gasoline or diesel fuel, the fire rate was 0.08

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A new 38 port electric truck charging depot and maintenance hub is coming online to service Southern California’s ports and logistics centers, along with 50 new electric trucks from Volvo and Daimler. No diesel trucks on this property. And sure enough, driving behind all those diesel trucks is a stinky endeavor.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Tesla Semi outperforms both diesel and electric truck competition, according to a new specification analysis. The analysis done by NextBigThing considers 9 factors when comparing the Tesla Semi to its competition, including the Nikola Tre, the Peterbilt 579EV, the Volvo VRNe, and numerous others.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It offers diesel-quality performance with a high cetane number and low auto-ignition temperature, but burns cleanly without producing any soot. Australia’s heavy reliance on diesel could also be lessened with the added possibility of DME being able to replace diesel in the future. —CSIRO’s Dr. Nick Burke. —Prof.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Remember, Polestar, owned by Volvo, began in 1995 as the Volvo performance tuner, so Polestar engineers are accustomed to using Swedish winters to test handling and performance. Before that, Polestar was founded in 1995 to performance-tune Volvos. As part of these events we may be offered free transportation, lodging or meals.

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Push EVs

APRIL 7, 2023

Petrol-only vehicles, and HEVs, were essentially flat YoY, and diesels were down by over a third. Diesel share of the market reached a near record low of 7.6% (only December ’22 was lower, at 6.7%). Only the Volvo XC40 BEV has come close to this performance, taking 7.4% This was 10.6% of the entire passenger auto market!

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America is introducing two new innovative technology tools to support customers in successfully deploying Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 models into their fleet operations.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 27, 2011

As the Geneva Motor Show 2011 inches ever closer, another auto manufacturer has announced a significant unveiling at the event. Volvo has revealed that it will introduce the V60 diesel plug-in hybrid at the showcase, a car that is almost production ready and manages to produce carbon dioxide emissions below 50g/km.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Road Test: 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin AWD Ultimate The First Volvo Compact SUV Coupe EV The 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge was the first electric-only and the smallest SUV from Volvo, falling in-line with the EX90 and XC40 Recharge. There are no design gimmicks and nothing radical going on, which is true Volvo DNA.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 31, 2023

Students will be considered for one of ten categories depending on their academic focus, including Automotive, Aviation, Collision Repair, Diesel On-Road and Off-Road, Marine/Watercraft, Motorcycle/ATV, Motorsports, Restoration and Welding/CNC. A panel of industry experts will select one winner from each of the ten categories.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Thanks to the flexibility offered by multiple injection (up to 5 injection events per engine cycle) these engines deliver very high levels of performance in terms of consumption, noise and performance.

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Engine Exhaust Volvo Fuel Economy 236

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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

CPT will demonstrate two vehicles equipped with its SpeedStart technology—a gasoline-powered Audi A4 and a diesel Volvo. If in the middle of this stop-start event the driver wants to drive on and has a change of mind about stopping, the driver can’t because the conventional stop-start system will have taken over.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

At the 2 nd International Conference Automotive 48 V Power Supply Systems , held last week in Düsseldorf, Germany, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT), a major sponsor of the event, together with leading car makers and Tier 1 suppliers, argued the need for an internationally agreed 48V electrical standard. —Paul Bloore.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

Volvo VNL D13 with DME. At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. Volvo has been testing Bio-DME in Sweden since 2009. Source: Volvo Trucks.

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Drive Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

With the introduction of the Clean Car Discount in 2022, the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel across the country, and the increasing number of EVs available in New Zealand , we are seeing more EVs on our roads than ever before. Petrol and diesel vehicles both use internal combustion engines (ICEs).

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 29, 2022

The answer, which I was able to get to elevator-pitch length, is that Polestar is the all-electric division of Volvo Cars, and the Polestar 2 is its first all-electric car here in the States. The Polestar 2 at first looks like a Volvo, but upon closer inspection has a style all its own. Good enough? Not nearly. Speak to me.

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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. Road Test: 2021 Volvo XC90 Recharge Plug-in Hybrid. News: Tesla Model Y Revealed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

Aside from a box lunch, a couple of bottles of water and two absolutely delicious chocolate chip cookies, GCC received no compensation, expense reimbursement or branded merchandise from GM to attend the event. A pure HCCI mode, during light to medium loads, when no spark event is required for combustion. Establishing four core brands.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 5, 2023

In addition, we are often invited to manufacturer events highlighting new vehicles or technology. As part of these events we may be offered free transportation, lodging or meals. 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.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The discussions focused primarily on the issues of climate change and global energy security, but also covered global air quality-related emissions standards, improved fuel quality and specifications for renewable fuels.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 7, 2022

The GV70 competes against premium small SUVs including the Acura RDX , Audi Q3, BMW X3, Buick Envision , Lexus NX , Lincoln Corsair, Mercedes-Benz GLC, Tesla Model Y and the Volvo XC60. Road Test: 2018 Volvo XC60 T8 PHEV. In addition, we are often invited to manufacturer events highlighting new vehicles or technology.

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Green Cars News

JULY 12, 2009

The Global Green Car Challenge is inching ever closer and this year’s event promises a host of environmentally friendly production cars battling for the title of “most eco-friendly&#. Australia’s own Holden is expected to bring an AFM equipped Commodore or a diesel Cruze.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

It seems like a week hasn’t gone by without an email in my inbox from GM about an embargoed press release and some upcoming GM EV event or announcement. On January 28 GM announced that it plans (aspires) to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035, ending production of its cars, trucks and SUVs with diesel- and gasoline-powered engines.

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