Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Volvo Cars has selected South Carolina as the location of its new $500-million factory in the US. The new facility will have initial annual production of around 100,000 cars and be located in Berkeley County, close to Charleston. The new plant will make latest generation Volvo models for sale in the United States and for export.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2013

AB Volvo has signed an agreement with the Chinese vehicle manufacturer Dongfeng Motor Group Company Limited (DFG) to acquire 45% of a new subsidiary of DFG, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicles (DFCV), which will include the major part of DFG’s medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles business. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Volvo Cars has raised SEK5 billion (US$533 million) from the sale of newly-issued preference shares to a group of Swedish institutional investors. The issuance has been conducted to further diversify Volvo Cars’ long-term funding sources. At this time, no decision has been taken.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Uber is expanding its self-driving pilot to San Francisco, California, using specially-converted self-driving Volvo XC90 premium SUVs. Volvo Cars and Uber are contributing a combined US$300 million to the project. Both Uber and Volvo will use the same base vehicle for the next stage of their own autonomous car strategies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2014

Volvo Cars revealed the XC90, its new 7-seat SUV, at an event in Sweden. Three years in the making and part of an $11-billion investment program, the new XC90 leverages the new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) technology, and will offer a range of two-liter, four-cylinder Drive-E powertrains. Volvo’s new face. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Volvo Cars will extend its range of compact cars into new segments based on its new Compact Modular Architecture (CMA)—a smaller version of Volvo’s Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) ( earlier post ). We are confident that by 2020, 10% of Volvo’s global sales will be electrified cars.” Click to enlarge.

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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

MAY 24, 2011

Clean Air Power CAP), the developer of a dual-fuel combustion technology that enables heavy-duty diesel engines to operate on a combination of diesel and natural gas, has launched its Genesis Edge Dual Fuel Volvo FM13 Euro5 product in Australia. Earlier post.). —John Pettitt, CEO of Clean Air Power.

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EV Obssesion

JUNE 16, 2021

The forthcoming Polestar 3, an aerodynamic electric performance SUV, will be manufactured alongside new Volvo vehicles at the Volvo Cars production center in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Polestar vehicles built in South Carolina will be for sale in the United States. Polestar […].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Volvo Trucks is expanding its electric truck offering with the introduction of rigid versions of its heavy electric trucks: the Volvo FH, Volvo FM and Volvo FMX. Production of the new variants will begin in the first quarter of 2023. The new rigid trucks have a battery capacity between 180-540 kWh. Cab: Day cab.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2018

TomTom’s HD Map is a digital map product aimed at making automated vehicles safer and more comfortable by complementing sensors, powering accurate localization and enabling path planning. TomTom and Zenuity— a joint venture of Autoliv and Volvo Cars—are collaborating on “Zenuity Connected Roadview” for autonomous vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

This is in part due to the collapse of the Italian and French markets, on which small cars are heavily reliant for sales—in 2019, 38% of A and B segment registrations in Europe occurred in Italy and France. For China, the landscape has improved since February, when sales shrank by 79% year-on-year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The next generation of PowerPac focuses on an increased life-span of the stack and the reformer and a reduced production cost. Within the project, a number of prototypes of PowerPac will be produced for field testing before the product is fully developed and ready for sale in Sweden and internationally.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

At that Board Hearing, five IVMs—Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Volvo—presented their proposal for changes to the ZEV regulation that would provide them with adjustments they felt necessary to allow them time to come into the advanced technology vehicle market. Background.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 10, 2021

Volvo Penta , which has created electric powertrains for a variety of applications, will power the Revolutionary Technology fire truck. The company indicated the unit will begin serial production as early as next year. However, the vehicle isn’t fully electric. It’s a series plug-in hybrid like the Chevrolet Volt.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

The forthcoming Polestar 3 will be manufactured alongside new Volvo vehicles at the Volvo Cars production center in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Polestar vehicles built in South Carolina will be for sale in the United States. Polestar was launched in 2017 by Volvo Cars and Geely Holding.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

If you have only a few cars for sales reps or maybe a van for local deliveries, then going direct to a dealer may work. For the trucks that haul everything we consume it is a lifeline for getting goods and products to their final destination. An example of such a company is Merchants Fleet that handles all of these.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Production of the Roadster, the company’s initial product, ended after deliveries totaling 2,500, but a new version of the Roadster is due at some point. has fully embraced EVs and, after years of teasing with snazzy concepts, the real hardware is for sale–and is selling well. and has had some success.

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Plug In Partners

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Here's the press release: PLUG-IN PARTNERS DECLARES VICTORY In January 2006, Austin Energy launched the national Plug-In Partners campaign, a grassroots effort to demonstrate to automakers that there is sufficient demand to support the mass production of flexible-fuel plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.

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Baua Electric

MAY 2, 2024

As Green Car Reports has pointed out before, the proposed rules suggest that products from some automakers that are set to build EVs in the U.S.—like like Volvo and Polestar—might not be eligible because of their Chinese ownership and control. Most EVs for sale in the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement, Forbes reports.

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EV Adoption

AUGUST 23, 2021

The intent of this provision is clear as President Biden and lawmakers in Congress have stated their concerns over China taking the lead in the production of electric vehicles, batteries, and autonomous vehicle technology. Geely, through its majority-owned companies Volvo and Polestar are already in the US – more on that later.)

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Deciding that the future of transportation, and therefore their survival, will be based on EVs, many of the top auto companies have promised to end production of their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035, if not earlier. BMW and Volvo have also publicly said they plan to take over more of their own software development.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Top 10 Top 10 PV makers sell 909,700 cars in Q1 Top 10 sedan brands line-up by sales, Top 10 sedan brands line-up by sales, Top 10 SUV brands line-up by sales, Top 10 SUV brands line-up by sales, More » What is Parts Number Search?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

Jim Rowan, Volvo Cars’ CEO and President. Volvo Cars As a result, EVs are unlikely to match ICE vehicle prices (or profits) anytime soon even for smaller EV models, says Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo , because of the ever increasing cost of batteries.

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