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JANUARY 2, 2024

Photo by Lukas Kloeppel on Pexels.com It’s no surprise that Norway is leading the world in EV adoption, but 2023 saw the country reach new heights with electric vehicles taking a record 82% market share, and Tesla with a whopping 20% market share. Meanwhile, in Sweden, Tesla market share in Sweden grew by a more modest 6.1%

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Ghent is currently preparing to take a second fully electric Volvo model, based on the CMA modular vehicle architecture, into production later this year. The plant already builds the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electric car, as well as a plug-in hybrid version of the XC40. in the region for the whole year.

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MARCH 4, 2022

Volvo Cars is integrating and testing wireless charging technology in a live city environment together with selected partners, evaluating its potential for future electric cars. The charging station sends energy through the charging pad, which is picked up by a receiver unit in the car.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It will be a key software development center and play a crucial role in the company’s strategic ambitions to be a fully electric brand by 2030 and a leader in new technology, not least through in-house software development. The Tech hub will carry full responsibility for developing complete and key features on new fully electric cars.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The share of Volvo Cars with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain—the Recharge models—amounted to 25.5% Sales of Volvo Cars’ fully electric models reached 3.1% During the month of October, Volvo Cars also started production of the fully electric C40 Recharge in Ghent.

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MAY 4, 2017

ABB will provide two fast-chargers for Scania electric buses in Östersund, Sweden. The chargers are based on OppCharge , an open interface for the automated charging of electric buses from any manufacturer, and use a pantograph on the infrastructure to connect the bus to the charging point.

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MAY 4, 2022

By the end of 2023, Bucher Municipal expects to deliver up to 80 fully electric sewer cleaner trucks to cities in Europe. The introduction of more zero emission zones in cities around the world is generating demand for fully electric trucks.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The cooperation includes exclusive, worldwide first pilot tests of a fully electric Volvo FH truck with gross combination weights up to 60 tons. Starting in March, the truck will operate between two DHL Freight logistics terminals in Sweden, a distance of approximately 150 km (93 miles). —Uwe Brinks, CEO at DHL Freight.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Polestar on Wednesday confirmed that it intends to fully reveal its first SUV, called the Polestar 3, at an event on October 12. The Sweden-based EV brand also confirmed a few more details about the fully electric SUV, due to be made in South Carolina in early 2023 and expected to be sized closely with the Porsche Cayenne.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Volvo Cars says that it is making significant investments that allow for the in-house design and development of electric motors for the next generation of Volvo models, as the company continues to move towards becoming a fully electric car maker. The newly opened electric motor lab in Shanghai became operational last month.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Unibuss, one of Norway’s largest bus companies, has a{ordered} 76 all-electric Lion’s City E buses—59 solo and 17 articulated e-buses—for Oslo from MAN Truck & Bus. 22 MAN Lion’s City E are already in service in Malmö, Sweden. KEOLIS also ordered a total of 75 Lion’s City 18 E for Sweden last year.

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JUNE 22, 2021

Volvo Car Group intends to establish a joint venture with Swedish battery company Northvolt to develop and produce more sustainable batteries, tailored to power the next generation of pure electric Volvo and Polestar cars.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The new Tech Hub will be a key center for data and analytics, software and advanced manufacturing development in line with Volvo Cars’ ambition to be a leader in new technology and a fully electric car maker by 2030. It also has large engineering centers in Shanghai, China and Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Electric Cars Report

MARCH 4, 2023

Volvo Trucks is delivering 20 fully electric heavy trucks to the logistics company DFDS in Gothenburg, Sweden. The delivery is part of a total order for 125 electric trucks that DFDS has placed with Volvo.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2021

In Sweden, Norway and Finland, respectively 26%, 24%, and 23% of urban buses registered in 2019 were zero-emission (electric or hydrogen). Poland announced that in cities with populations of 100,000 or more, all public transport will be fully electric by 2030, and allocated €290 million to support this objective.

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JUNE 17, 2021

As part of the collaboration, Volvo Cars will be the first car maker to secure SSAB steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron from HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå, Sweden. Volvo Cars’ ambition is to be a fully electric car brand by 2030, with only pure electric cars in its line-up. Source: HYBRIT.

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JULY 9, 2021

The creation of the stand-alone joint venture and the transfer of assets allows Volvo Cars to focus fully on the development of its new range of all-electric premium cars in coming years. By 2030, it plans for every car it sells to be pure electric.

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JUNE 8, 2020

All its European plants have had a climate-neutral electricity supply since 2008, while the engine plant in Skövde, Sweden, was the first in the company’s network to become completely climate-neutral in 2018. These and other measures are part of the climate plan Volvo Cars launched late last year.

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JULY 16, 2020

The battery cells will be produced in Europe at the Northvolt gigafactory currently under construction in Skellefteå in northern Sweden (series plant Northvolt Ett) from 2024. Northvolt will obtain 100% of the energy needed to produce the battery cells regionally in northern Sweden and exclusively from wind and hydroelectric power.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Photo credit: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com Volvo Cars experienced a robust financial year in 2023, marked by a substantial increase in annual revenue and a notable rise in the sale of fully electric cars. The company's financial success is highlighted by an increase in annual revenue to SEK 399.3 billion, up from SEK 330.1

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Following on from the order for 17 fully electric MAN Lion’s City E buses placed by the Hamburg-Holstein public transportation company (VHH), this is another major order we have received for our electric buses. Every day, the company transports more than one million people in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.

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APRIL 6, 2011

The world’s first fast rechargeable hybrid bus is now being tested in Umeå City, Sweden in a collaboration between the companies Hybricon AB, Opbrid SL, e-Traction BV, Umeå Energi AB and the Umeå City Corporation.

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JULY 2, 2022

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. The new facility represents an investment of around €1.2 billion; Volvo expects around 20% to be funded by governmental support.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

By building on an industry-leading safety standard that will feature in Volvo Cars’ next generation of pure electric cars, Ride Pilot aims to free up more time for customers and make driving a Volvo even more convenient and enjoyable. This new flagship car for the company will be revealed later this year.

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JULY 30, 2020

This applies in particular to energy-intensive production of battery cells for electric vehicles. Up to 40% of a fully-electric vehicle’s CO 2 emissions come from battery cell production alone. Umicore will contribute to development of a sustainable battery cell in Europe.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

billion) in its Torslanda manufacturing plant in Sweden, to deliver advanced production practices for its next generation of fully electric vehicles. Volvo Cars has shared news that it plans to invest SEK 10 billion (~$1.09 This includes mega casting of aluminum body parts, a new battery assembly plant, and more.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With the rapid expansion of Scania’s electrified range of trucks, buses and engines, the company plans to, over several years, invest more than 1 billion SEK (US$116 million) in a battery assembly plant in Södertälje, Sweden. In 2015, Scania started series production of hybrid buses and in 2019 of its first fully electric bus range.

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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. In the future, Polestar 3 will join the portfolio as a fully electric performance SUV.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Tide Buss has placed an order for 25 Volvo 7900 Electric buses for the city of Trondheim, Norway—the company’s largest order yet for its fully electric buses. The electric buses from Volvo will run on four routes in Trondheim, covering distances of between 12 and 15 km each, with operations due to start in August 2019.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

PowerCell Sweden AB signed a contract with Norwegian Havyard Group ASA for the development of the design and the technical specifications for a zero-emissions fuel-cell system. When entering the fjords, they can operate fully electric for a long time with no other emissions than water. —Per Wassén.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Enterprise Services business will help National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) accelerate the setup of its global electric vehicle production. As part of the project, HPE will create a global manufacturing IT platform for NEVS that will operate across plants in Sweden and China.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Volvo Buses recently demonstrated the potential of a 12-meter electric and autonomous bus at a bus depot. The demonstration, held together with bus operator Keolis, took place at Keolis’ bus depot just outside of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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MARCH 17, 2016

National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (Nevs) and State Grid Electric Vehicle Service Co., have signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework agreement under which State Grid will use Nevs as a preferred partner for mobility solutions and as a supplier of electric vehicles.

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DECEMBER 11, 2021

The R&D center will be in close proximity to Volvo Cars’ own R&D operations and to Northvolt’s existing innovation campus Northvolt Labs in Västerås, Sweden, ensuring synergies and efficiencies as it develops battery technologies. The exact location of the plant is expected to be confirmed in early 2022.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom celebrated the fact that, in Q2, one out of every four vehicles sold in California was electric , though the state didn’t expect to reach this goal until 2025. as a whole follows California’s adoption rate, 25 percent of new car sales nationwide could be fully electric by 2026.

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APRIL 7, 2016

A total of more than 6,000 Wille multi-function machines have been sold so far with its main markets in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia and North America. The standard Wille 665 unit is currently powered by an 83 kW Caterpillar diesel.

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MAY 28, 2014

The consortium comprises Fiat (IT), Volkswagen (DE), Liberty Electric Cars (UK), Michelin (CH), Polis Network (BE), SP – Technical Research Institute of Sweden (SE), HPL Prototypes (UK) as well as CADEM (TR) und Mobit (TR). Electric (Battery) Motors' The DELIVER project ends in October 2014.

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