Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

The all-electric Volvo C40 Recharge is available online via volvocars.com in select markets across Europe as of this week. Unlimited data enables superior connectivity and the C40 Recharge is designed to receive software updates over the air. of total Volvo Car USA sales. of all Volvo sales in California.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

Volvo Group Venture Capital AB has invested in Driivz Ltd. , Driivz technology also helps EVgo maintain charger reliability and availability with proactive issue detection and remote resolution. The Volvo Group ambition is to offer state-of-the-art truck charging services for a seamless charging experience.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2018

Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, and leading truck maker Volvo Trucks (independent companies despite the names) are collaborating to share real-time data to expand coverage of the companies’ connected safety technology—cloud-based systems that allow vehicle to communicate with each other and alert drivers of nearby hazards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Volvo Cars is partnering with Waycare Technologies to enable data from Volvo’s Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to be shared anonymously with transportation municipalities and the popular Waze navigation app. Connected safety data-sharing between Volvo cars is available throughout the US.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2019

Volvo Cars is making its industry-first connected safety technology available across Europe as another step in its ambitions to improve traffic safety. The technology allows Volvo cars to communicate with each other and alert drivers of nearby slippery road conditions and hazards via a cloud based network.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 1, 2024

Volvo is introducing a new feature that alerts drivers of accidents reported on the road ahead. With similar services available for free on select phone apps, many of which can be integrated with your vehicle’s infotainment display, Volvo’s offering doesn’t sound incredibly novel on its face.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2020

Volvo Cars will equip its next-generation cars with Luminar LiDAR and perception technology. The partnership will deliver Volvo’s first fully self-driving technology for highways and paves the way for future active safety developments. Volvo Cars took a stake in Luminar in 2018 ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Volvo Cars is updating its 90 series cars with new powertrain, safety and connectivity updates. The D3 will also now be available with All-Wheel Drive. The Swedish carmaker’s smartphone integration offer, which already includes Apple CarPlay, will now come with Android Auto functionality in Volvo’s large driver interface.

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Baua Electric

MAY 16, 2024

Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) is putting data at the heart of its decarbonization efforts as it invests in advanced telematics and beefs up its carbon footprint reporting. Volvo Group has purchased a 22% ownership stake in VizaLogix , a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that specializes in vehicle telematics and data collection.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen) are joining forces in a pilot project in which road friction information from individual cars is shared within a cloud-based system. The information is also sent to the road administrator. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

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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Baua Electric

MARCH 3, 2024

By: HT Auto Desk | Updated on: 04 Mar 2024, 09:38 AM Owners can activate the Accident Ahead Alert system by using the ‘connected safety’ option in the infotainment display to enable data sharing. The system will initially be available in all 40, 60, and 90 series Volvo models in Denmark built from the 2016 model year onwards.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Volvo Cars is fundamentally rethinking its approach to infotainment in the forthcoming fully electric Volvo XC40. Volvo Car Group is the first company to team up with Google on integrating an infotainment system powered by Android, with the Google Assistant, Google Maps and the Google Play Store built-in.

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Green Car Congress

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. Improving the availability of trucks equates to more money.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2019

Automated control of cars may enable drivers to achieve more fuel savings than if they were completely in charge, according to a new study conducted by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Volvo Cars. Zhu’s co-authors are Jeffrey Gonder, who manages his group, and three researchers from Volvo Cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2017

Volvo Cars has become the first automaker in the world to export China-made cars to Europe by train via China’s new “One Belt, One Road” trade initiative. The first S90 premium sedans, built at Volvo’s Daqing plant in China, will arrive at a distribution centre in Zeebrugge, Belgium this week.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Volvo Cars has selected INRIX, Inc. INRIX will provide Volvo drivers with rich, real-time and predictive traffic flow information for routes, travel times, and alerts to accidents and incidents. The technology will be integrated globally first into the Volvo Cluster 90 vehicles equipped with Sensus Connect.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2022

Autonomy’s order was placed with the fleet departments of the following automakers: BMW, Canoo, Fisker, Ford, General Motors, Hyundai, Kia, Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Polestar, Rivian, Stellantis, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, VinFast, Volvo and Volkswagen. Telematics: Fully connected. Battery Range: 250 miles minimum (with some exceptions).

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Polestar, the motorsport and performance collaboration with Volvo Cars, has introduced a modest Performance optimization of the Volvo V60 diesel Plug-in Hybrid. The Polestar optimization increases the power output to a total of 298 hp (222 kW) and 670 N·m (494 lb-ft), making it the strongest ever diesel model from Volvo.

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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. Volvo Cars also announced the release of a limited First Edition of its new flagship; the 1,927 individually numbered cars celebrate the year Volvo was founded and will only be available for sale online at www.volvocars.com, beginning 3 Sep.

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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. Volvo On Call is available as an option on all models in the Volvo range. Charge interruption warning.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Volvo Cars is introducing the Drive-E powertrain with a 245 hp gasoline turbo T5 engine, made available earlier this year for the V40 ( earlier post ), for the V40 Cross Country with the added capability of AWD. Volvo V40 Cross Country with AWD. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 9, 2023

On paper, the 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin Ultimate seems like a fine compact EV. Quirky” is an adjective that’s been applied to Volvos in the past, in ways both good and bad, and it certainly applies here, though the quirks are more confounding than fun. Props to Volvo for that. And it looks cool. Just not quite enough.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2016

At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week in Las Vegas, Volvo is revealing that it is developing intelligent, high bandwidth, streaming capabilities with its technology partner, Ericsson, for autonomous Volvos. Autonomous drive will bring a paradigm shift to mobile net demands.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Volvo Car Group will take a leading role in the first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the Swedish city of Gothenburg. The first SPA model will be the all-new Volvo XC90, which will be introduced in 2014.

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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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2016

On 14 April, the transport ministers of all 28 EU member states signed the Amsterdam Declaration , laying down agreements on the steps necessary for the development of connected, autonomous driving technology in the EU. The signatories pledge to draw up rules and regulations that will allow autonomous vehicles to be used on the roads.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2012

Volvo Trucks is adding two X—exceptional efficiency—drivetrain packages featuring the 16-liter Volvo D16 engine for the North American market. Volvo first introduced its downspeeding concept in September 2011 with the XE13 powertrain package, which utilizes Volvo’s 13-liter D13 engine. ratio instead of the 3.73

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Volvo unveiled its new Volvo V90 wagon in Stockholm, Sweden. Power, in which all available power is used to deliver maximum performance. The Volvo S90 and V90 eight-speed planetary automatic transmission is a key part of Volvo’s Drive-E powertrain technology. Earlier post.) T8 Twin Engine AWD powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2011

Volvo has upgraded the five-cylinder D5 and D3 turbodiesels for application in the upgraded versions of the Volvo V70, XC70 and S80. Fuel consumption of the Volvo S80 D5 with manual gearbox and start/stop is now 4.9 —Derek Crabb, Vice President, Powertrain Engineering at Volvo Cars. The five-cylinder 2.4-liter

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

By connecting RSI to a cloud service, road data can be distributed to other vehicles, enabling drivers to adapt their driving style or change routes as they receive information about upcoming hazards or dangerous situations. NIRA customers include Audi, Fiat, Renault, Seat, Skoda, Volkswagen and Volvo Cars.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Volvo Car Corporation, Ericsson, the utility company Göteborg Energi and the Viktoria Institute are collaborating in the research project ELVIIS (Electric Vehicle Intelligent Infra Structure) to develop a concept for using intelligent infrastructure for the smart on-board charging of plug-in vehicles. Göteborg Energi.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

In a new report, “Strategic Analysis of the European Market for V2V and V2I Communication Systems”, Frost & Sullivan finds that Daimler and Volvo are expected to lead the implementation of V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) communication systems among vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across Europe.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Volvo and its Chinese parent Geely are very serious about selling cars that plug in. In 2019, Volvo launched the XC40 compact crossover, a boxy but stylish compact SUV with a 2.0-liter In 2019, Volvo launched the XC40 compact crossover, a boxy but stylish compact SUV with a 2.0-liter Volvo’s first EV.

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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. of torque available from zero RPM, which is fed through a two-speed Mack Powershift transmission to Mack’s proprietary S462R 46,000-pound rear axles.

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JULY 13, 2022

Tata Motors has recently updated their new software update which is available for all Tata Nexon EV users. Tata Motors has announced that the new software update was not available in the previous version and the new updates were launched under the name of Tata Nexon EV prime. Volvo XC40 Recharge into Indian market.

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