Green Car Congress
APRIL 19, 2017
Volvo Cars announced at Auto Shanghai that it will build its first fully electric car in China. The all-new model will be based on Volvo’s Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) for smaller cars, and will be available for sale in 2019 and exported globally from China, Volvo said.
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. It has a medium-term vision that no one will be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo by 2020. Its management will comprise of representatives from Autoliv and Volvo Cars.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 18, 2017
Zenuity, the joint venture between Volvo Cars and Autoliv, Inc. At the same time Volvo Cars will contribute intellectual property, know-how and personnel into the joint venture. As previously announced, Volvo Cars and Autoliv own the joint venture 50/50. Volvo Cars can source such products directly from the joint venture.
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.
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.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 3, 2017
Volvo Cars, and Autoliv signed a final agreement to establish a new joint venture called Zenuity to develop software for autonomous driving (AD) and driver assistance systems (ADAS), based on the letter of intent announced during fall 2016. As previously announced, Autoliv and Volvo Cars will own the joint venture 50/50.
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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