Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2023

Volvo Cars reported sales of 162,938 cars for Q1 2023, up 10% compared to the same period last year. The sales growth was mainly led by the company’s fully electric cars. For the month of March, Volvo Cars sold 63,132 cars globally, up 8% compared with the same month last year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 48,520 in January, up 2% compared to the same month last year. Sales of Volvo Cars´ Recharge models of fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars increased by 31% in January year-on-year, accounting for 40.7% of all Volvo cars sold globally during the month.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. Ghent is currently preparing to take a second fully electric Volvo model, based on the CMA modular vehicle architecture, into production later this year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2020

Volvo Car Group, including its strategic affiliates Lynk & Co and Polestar, produce vehicles based on the Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) platform, introduced in 2017. The platform made its debut in 2017 with the popular Volvo XC40. To the end of July more than 600,000 group vehicles based on the platform have been sold.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Volvo Penta and TICO have completed the build of the first terminal tractor prototypes powered by Volvo Penta’s electric driveline. The Volvo Group recently announced its ambition to be a net-zero emissions company by 2050, at the latest. TICO will build a series of prototypes in close collaboration with Volvo Penta.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Volvo Trucks North America offered a first look at its Class 8 battery-electric project trucks during an exclusive event at TEC Equipment dealership in Fontana, California. Guests experienced the fully electric trucks firsthand for the first time, and learned more about electromobility and its role in freight movement solutions.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Volvo Cars has sold 581,464 cars worldwide in the first 10 months of 2021, up 12.6% In October, Volvo Cars global sales reached 50,815 cars, down 22.2% The decline was related to a shortage of components which affected production but the demand for Volvo Cars’ products remained strong. compared with the same period last year.

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Green Car Congress

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. —Henrik Green, Chief Technology Officer at Volvo Cars.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

Volvo Cars reported retail sales of 45,952 cars in May, down 28.3% In May the share of fully electric cars grew to 7.9% (3,652 units), up from 3.7% (2,399 units out of 64,111). Sales of Recharge models (plug-in hybrid and fully electric) represented 33.6% Plug-in hybrid. Fully electric.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2021

Volvo Cars and its parent company Geely Holding will create a joint venture under the name Aurobay for its powertrain operations, as the companies proceed with their earlier announced plans to merge these into a new, stand-alone business. By 2030, it plans for every car it sells to be pure electric.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Swedish luxury carmaker Volvo Cars could go fully electric in India by around 2025, much ahead of its global target of becoming a full electric car company by 2030, a senior company official said on Tuesday. “We will launch C40 BEV, a pure electric vehicle in quarter four of this year.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 6, 2023

The upcoming Volvo EX90 electric SUV has been shown in detail via a new video posted on Youtube today. Volvo is one of a select few legacy brands dedicated to quickly electrifying its lineup. It started with hybridization a few years back, and now the brand has begun introducing its lineup of fully electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Volvo Cars reported sales of 47,561 cars in January, a decline by 20.2% Sales of Volvo Cars’ Recharge (electrified) models increased by 11.5% of all Volvo cars sold globally during the month. The sales of fully electric cars during the month more than doubled compared with the same month last year. of total sales).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Volvo Cars reported sales of 43,666 cars in August, down 4.6% of the sales last month, with fully electric vehicles accounting for 5.7% In addition, lack of availability of components, notably semiconductors, continues to influence manufacturing output, which impacted Volvo Cars’ retail deliveries during the month.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2021

Volvo Cars achieved its eleventh consecutive month of sales growth as the company’s global sales increased by 43% in May, compared with the same month last year. In May, Volvo Cars sold a total of 64,111 cars, up from 44,830 cars in the same period last year. Sales in the January-May period landed at 312,533 cars, up 49.9

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Green Car Congress

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. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2014

ABB and Volvo Buses are partnering to co-develop and to commercialize electric and hybrid buses with open standards-based direct current (DC) fast charging systems. Volvo hybrid bus. The power requirements are also lower: 150kW for the hybrid electric bus and 300 kW for electric bus.

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Green Car Congress

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. In 2010, public transportation administration company AtB in Trondheim was among the first in Europe to order hybrid buses from Volvo.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Photo: Toyota Toyota has made its fully electric 2024 bZ4X – which only just landed on dealers’ lots – available to lease with a $10,000 discount. Toyota is getting its BEV sales hat handed to it by other automakers such as Volvo, Kia, and Hyundai. It’s focusing on hybrids and gas cars. Read more: Toyota to invest $1.3B

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Ford and Volvo have partnered with Redwood Materials for pathways for end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Redwood currently holds several partnerships, including one with Tesla and another with AESC , the manufacturer of Nissan LEAF battery packs. Ford and Volvo are the first two automakers to join the program.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Superyacht builder Sanlorenzo will become the first ship-builder to integrate the new Volvo Penta “electric-ready” marine powertrain system into two new upcoming customer yachts. The flexibility to “mix and match” drive solutions will enable yacht makers to quickly electrify their offerings without the need to fully redesign the hull.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 21, 2024

A hybrid vehicle is powered by at least one electric motor and a gasoline engine, and its system recovers energy through regenerative braking. Sometimes the electric motor does all of the work, other times the combustion engine does, and sometimes both work together. This generally occurs at slower city speeds.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

By: HT Auto Desk | Updated on: 05 Jan 2024, 16:47 PM Volvo launched the C40 Recharge electric SUV as its second fully-electric model in India last year. Volvo Cars in India offers two fully electric models in C40 Recharge and XC40 Recharge. litre petrol engine which is mated to a 48V battery pack.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 2, 2023

Volvo Cars is suspending sedan sales in the United Kingdom and it looks like North America could be next if we consider the brand’s rationale. But Volvo expressed its intention to further consolidate its lineup as a way to boost profitability and appears to be taking steps toward that goal. is now absent the S60, V60, and V90.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

Volvo Cars announced that every Volvo it launches from 2019 on will have an electric motor, marking the historic end of cars that only have an internal combustion engine (ICE) and placing electrification at the core of its future business. You can now pick and choose whichever electrified Volvo you wish.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Volvo Cars sold 31,760 cars in April, down 43.8% In the January to April period, Volvo Cars global sales reached 163,649 cars, down 24.9% In the January to April period, Volvo Cars global sales reached 163,649 cars, down 24.9% Volvo Cars’ sales in Europe reached 9,283 cars in April, down 66.8% year-on-year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Volvo Cars and its owner, China-based Geely Holding, will jointly invest RMB 5 billion (US756 million) to support the initial phase of Polestar’s product, brand and industrial development. Polestar’s first production car, the Polestar 1, is a 600hp two-door, four-seater hybrid coupé. It has a pure electric range of 150km (93 miles).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2016

Volvo Cars aims to sell a total of up to one million electrified cars by 2025. The Swedish company plans to achieve this aim by offering at least two hybrid versions of every model in its range and releasing the first all-electric car in 2019. In October 2015, Volvo Cars introduced its Electrification Strategy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2019

Polestar, the electric performance brand jointly owned by Volvo Car Group and Zhejiang Geely Holding, opened its first production facility. The new Polestar Production Center in Chengdu, China will produce the Polestar 1—a carbon fiber-bodied Electric Performance Hybrid. Polestar 2 EV.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Volvo Cars will extend its range of compact cars into new segments based on its new Compact Modular Architecture (CMA)—a smaller version of Volvo’s Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) ( earlier post ). The company also announced its electrification strategy in which plug-in hybrids will be introduced across its entire range.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Volvo and its Chinese parent Geely are very serious about selling cars that plug in. Starting in 2016, the Swedish brand has included plug-in hybrid versions of pretty much every new vehicle it sells in the US. . 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

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. Polestar 2 is the company’s first full electric, higher volume premium car.

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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2020

Volvo Cars has opened order books for the XC40 Recharge P8 AWD ( earlier post ), the company’s first fully electric car which is based on the best-selling SUV, in selected markets. The Recharge car line is the name for all Volvos with a fully electric and plug-in hybrid powertrain.

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Green Car Congress

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. This will extend the all-electric range of the e-Traction (Apeldoorn, Holland) hybrid bus from 2 hours to 18 hours.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment. These insights are distilled into “Volvo Reports” and will feature a different topic each month. 5 Manufacturer providing a gasoline or hybrid car to switch out (32%).

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