Clean Fleet Report
APRIL 15, 2023
Road Test: 2023 Volvo XC60 Recharge Ultimate Surprising Performance in a Compact Plug-In Hybrid SUV Okay, a show of hands if “quick or fast” come to mind when Volvo SUV is mentioned. The automatic seamlessly went through the gears (a big thanks to Volvo for not having paddle shifters).
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
In a joint project with the EU, the Swedish Energy Agency, fuel companies and the transport industry, Volvo Trucks is investigating the potential for large-scale investment in dimethyl ether (DME) fuel produced from biomass (Bio-DME). Volvo’s DME truck. Lars Mårtensson, environmental affairs director at Volvo Trucks.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Volvo FH with a 13-liter engine that runs on DME. Swedish oil company and distributor Preem recently inaugurated a BioDME filling station in Stockholm, and the first five Volvo DME (dimethyl ether) trucks ( earlier post ) in commercial operation have taken to the road in a two-year field test in Sweden. Click to enlarge.
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. Please let us know your views at publisher@cleanfleetreport.com.
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.
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.
Clean Fleet Report
JULY 5, 2021
The lithium-ion polymer battery pack is replenished through plug-in charging and regenerative braking, which converts kinetic energy into electric energy when applying the brakes or coasting, and stores it in the battery. Road Test: 2021 Volvo SC90 Recharge PHEV. Charge up for electric-only local driving. Road Test: 2020 Kia Niro EV.
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