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JULY 7, 2022

With this capital raise, Northvolt has since 2017 secured close to $8 billion in equity and debt to deliver on its plans to establish a supply of sustainable batteries. Through 2021, around 1,800 people were recruited into Northvolt, and it continues to onboard around 150 people per month to support its plans.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Sales-Lentz, one of the public transport operators in Luxembourg, has ordered three Heliox Fast Charge Systems with OppCharge open interface to provide fast charging services for its four Volvo 7900 electric buses. End of route stations will be delivered Q2 2017, with one of the systems to be located at Sales-Lentz’ depot.

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JUNE 26, 2019

Volvo Active Driver Assist (VADA) 2.0, a comprehensive collision mitigation system, will be made standard in the new Volvo VNR and VNL models, and available on VNX models, later this year. —Johan Agebrand, product marketing director, Volvo Trucks North America. will further enhance safety for all motorists.

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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. Common Rail Fuel Injection System.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Volvo Cars aims for fully electric cars to make up 50% of its sales by 2025, the company announced in Beijing. The announcement builds on Volvo Cars’ 2017 announcement that all new models released from 2019 will be available as either a mild-hybrid, plug-in hybrid or battery-electric vehicle. New Volvo XC40 T5 plug-in hybrid.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Volvo Car India has achieved a production milestone of 10,000 cars in India at its Bengaluru facility. It was in 2017 that the company commenced assembly operations with the XC90 XUV being the first model to be assembled and roll out of the factory. The 10,000 th model is an all-electric XC40 Recharge SUV.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

Volvo Cars has made investments in two Israeli technology start-ups through the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the company’s venture capital investment arm. Both UVeye and MDGo have their headquarters in Tel Aviv, where Volvo Cars has been involved with DRIVE, an accelerator for young companies in the mobility sector, since 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Volvo Cars has announced that it will be taking an ethical stand for animal welfare in its electric vehicles. On September 23rd, the Swedish automaker officially announced that every new fully-electric Volvo model will come with a completely leather-free interior, starting with the C40 Recharge.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Today we're going north of the border to the home of our parent company to bring you this 1988 Volvo 780 Bertone. The vehicle was involved in a collision in 2017. This is one is apparently pretty clean with only minor wear and tear and plenty of parts that have been replaced with new ones over time as part of regular maintenance.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

Volvo Cars unveiled two new 40 series concept cars, marking the official launch of its global small car strategy. The first new 40 series car is expected to go into production in 2017. The new concept cars will be the first built around Volvo’s new Compact. Earlier post.). Profiles of the two 40 series concepts. to 120,591 cars.

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MAY 16, 2018

The new Volvo S60 sedan to be launched later this spring will be the first Volvo to be produced without a diesel engine option. All new Volvo models launched from 2019 will be available as either a mild gasoline hybrid, plug-in gasoline hybrid or battery electric vehicle. The new S60 represents the next step in that commitment.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Volvo Cars announced a range of updates to its global connected services program and its Sensus in-car user interface, starting with the new XC60 and the company’s existing and new 90 Series cars. —Björn Annwall, Senior Vice President Global Consumer Experience at Volvo Car Group. This is just the start. —Björn Annwall.

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JUNE 22, 2018

Volvo Cars revealed the new S60 mid-size premium sports sedan at the company’s new—and first—US manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina. The combined car launch and factory opening reinforce Volvo Cars’ commitment to the US, an important market for the company and its new premium sports sedan.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The struggling luxury EV maker just lost its funding from Volvo, which is handing full responsibility for the brand over to China’s Geely. However, Volvo is letting them down easy, saying it’s a “natural evolution” for the two brands. Volvo bought the company in 2015, and then launched it as a separate EV-centric startup in 2017.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 27, 2024

Swedish automaker Volvo has rolled out its last diesel-powered vehicle, after a 45-year relationship with the powertrain and cranking out millions of diesel cars. Since 1991, Volvo made more than 9 million vehicles with diesel engines. Well, not exactly of yore , but at least it’s la fin for Volvo’s contribution.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Volvo Trucks North America is expanding its connected vehicle services with new Remote Programming to increase truck uptime, reduce downtime costs, and improve vehicle efficiency, all through powertrain software and parameter updates.

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JUNE 23, 2017

The Volvo Group’s new truck engines are more fuel efficient as a result of their new piston design which adds waves to the piston crown to improve the use of oxygen. The engineers (John Gibble, Frank Löfskog, Michael Balthasar, and Jan Eismark) behind the innovation have now received the Volvo Technology Award 2017.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Westport AB, a Westport Fuel Systems company, announced that Volvo Car will introduce the Bi-Fuel version of its new V90 station wagon in Belgium and Luxembourg. The Volvo V90 Bi-Fuel is produced at the Volvo Car factory in Gothenburg, Sweden. —Didier Hendrickx of Natural Gas Vehicle Association (NGVA) Belgium.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

billion) by the end of 2017 following a series of significant program wins with major global automakers. million) in 2017 to £200 million (US$277.1 million) in 2017 to £200 million (US$277.1 As of 31 December 2017, GKN’s order book relating to eDrive was £2 billion following a number of major program wins. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 8, 2018

Volvo Cars said that by the middle of the next decade, it expects to generate half of all sales annually from fully electric cars; one third of all cars sold to be autonomous driving cars and half of all cars it offers to customers from its subscription service. This means that Volvo Cars is also changing rapidly.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

The first cell of Northvolt Ett represents a milestone which Northvolt has been working towards since the gigafactory was announced in 2017. The cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Designers consider whether less "EVness" will make the 2017 Nissan Leaf more appealing, Tesla Motors sets up shop in Japan, and Chinese-Swedish carmaker Volvo unveils a prototype engine that makes 450 horsepower from just 2.0 We''ve got news from all around the world today. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Should Volvo take EV maker Polestar (PSNY) private? Polestar built high-performance vehicles alongside Volvo for over two decades. After Geely bought out Volvo, Polestar was established as an independent electric vehicle brand in 2017. He didn’t reveal whether Volvo or Geely was pushing Polestar to go private.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2017

Volvo Cars plans to set up a new joint venture technology company with Geely Holding, the Chinese car group, to share existing and future technology, to deepen industrial synergies and to provide the economies of scale that will allow them to develop next generation electrified vehicle technology more rapidly.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Volvo Cars’ holistic solution generates exact positioning and a complete 360° view of the car’s surroundings using a combination of multiple radars, cameras and laser sensors. Volvo Cars has developed what it says is a unique, complete system solution that makes it possible to integrate self-driving cars into real traffic.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

million units in 2017, representing just 43.7% million registrations in 2017, 19.5% Overall, new registrations in Europe in 2017 totalled 15.57 in December 2017. The vast majority of market growth in 2017 was driven by SUVs, which posted a record 4.56 million registrations in 2017. higher than in 2016.

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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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APRIL 27, 2016

Volvo Cars will begin the UK’s most ambitious autonomous driving (AD) trial next year. Volvo’s UK-based test will be called ‘Drive Me London’ and will differentiate itself from other AD programs by using real families driving AD cars on public roads.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Volvo Cars, as a worldwide leader in safety, will limit the top speed on all its cars to 180 km/h (112 mph) from 2020. The company’s Vision 2020, which aims for no one to be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo by 2020, is one of the most ambitious safety visions in the automotive industry. With speeds, not so much.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Henkel will showcase a leaf spring based on Loctite MAX 2 polyurethane matrix resin and continuous glass fiber reinforcement at JEC World 2017 composites trade show in Paris next week.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Under a SuperTruck II award announced by the US Department of Energy (DOE) ( earlier post ), Volvo Group North America is scheduled to receive $20 million in federal funding that it will use to improve the freight-moving efficiency of heavy-duty trucks. The Volvo Group and its partners will match the development funds dollar-for-dollar.

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JUNE 28, 2016

Volvo Trucks North America is adding a turbo compounding option for the Volvo D13 engine. This additional torque allows the Volvo D13 with turbo compounding to improve performance and efficiency at the same time. By converting wasted heat energy, the 13-liter D13 with turbo compounding improves fuel efficiency by up to 6.5

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 27, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports, we delve into some renderings of possible styling for the 2017 Nissan Leaf electric car, give you all of the details on the 2016 Volvo XC90 plug-in hybrid, and report on a startup''s claims of a breakthrough in battery design. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Two years ago, the Volvo XC90 large SUV launched to widespread acclaim and awards as the Sino-Swedish brand's first all-new vehicle in six years. It was followed by the S90 sedan and V90 wagon in 2017, filling out its large luxury lineup.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Volvo Cars and Autoliv have signed a letter of intent to set up a new jointly-owned company to develop next-generation autonomous driving software. The company is expected to start operations in the beginning of 2017. The company is expected to start operations in the beginning of 2017.

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JUNE 18, 2021

Tesla, Volvo, Cadillac, Lexus, and Navya are five car companies under investigation by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) for crashes that occurred while Advanced Driver Assistance Systems were activated, the agency said. Tesla Model Y crash in Detroit likely caused by reckless driving, not Autopilot: police.

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JUNE 18, 2015

The Chalmers University of Technology has joined Volvo Cars’ Drive Me project—a public pilot with ordinary drivers behind the steering wheels of 100 self-driving Volvos. Drive Me is a large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions.

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