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. The Volvo LIGHTS project was made possible by an award to South Coast AQMD of $44.8 Volvo Group contributed $36.7 Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 60,398 cars in May, up 31% compared with the same month last year. For the first five months of the year, Volvo Cars sales reached 275,312 cars, up 14% compared to the same period during 2022. The share of fully electric cars stood at 18%.

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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. For the month of March, Volvo Cars sold 63,132 cars globally, up 8% compared with the same month last year. The sales growth was mainly led by the company’s fully electric cars. Sales of the all-electric cars were up 140% year-on-year.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Volvo Cars has a strategic direction to become fully electric by 2030 and shape the future of mobility. In line with those strategic ambitions, Volvo Cars will divest its 33% holding in Aurobay to Geely Holding. —Javier Varela, chief operating officer and deputy CEO at Volvo Cars. Earlier post.).

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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. compared with January last 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 Reports

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Volvo has said that it will make only electric cars by 2030. So what’s in store for its plug-in hybrids in the interim? Bigger batteries for more electric range.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

Volvo has extended its S60 range—the third generation of the premium mid-size sedan—to incorporate further powertrain choices and equipment grades, including an all­wheel­drive gasoline-electric hybrid and a trim level that focuses on luxury and craftsmanship. The 0-62mph sprint takes just 4.6 The T8 Twin Engine's 11.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Volvo Cars and Geely Auto have agreed on a wide-ranging collaboration that will maximize the strengths of the Swedish and Chinese automotive groups, delivering synergies in powertrains, sharing of electric vehicle architecture, joint procurement, autonomous drive technologies and aftersales.

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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. The capacity increase comes as Volvo Cars also reports its full-year sales results for 2020, which showed a strong growth in demand for the company’s Recharge models.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Volvo ran into that issue with its electric and plug-in hybrid models, leading the automaker to change their names to more clearly designate their places in its catalog. Volvo renamed the electric XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge to EX40 and EC40, respectively. Image: Volvo] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America customer 4 Gen Logistics, a fourth generation, family-owned drayage company, has ordered 41 Volvo VNR Electric trucks to haul freight between the Port of Long Beach and Southern California’s Inland Empire—a national logistics and warehousing hub. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Redwood Materials, founded by Tesla co-founder and former CTO JB Straubel ( earlier post ), is launching the most comprehensive electric vehicle battery recycling program, beginning in California, to establish efficient, safe and effective recovery pathways for end-of-life hybrid and electric vehicle battery packs.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 6, 2024

Full battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for just 7.2% continued] The post Volvo Reaches 44% Plugin Vehicles appeared first on CleanTechnica. of the US auto market last year, compared to 16% in.

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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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2023

Volvo Car USA reported sales of 102,038 cars for the full year 2022, down 16.5% The share of fully electric Volvo cars reached 7.2% In the month of December, Volvo Car USA sold 11,111 cars, up 6.4%compared The share of overall Recharge cars—those with pure electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains—reached 27.4%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Volvo Cars is releasing upgraded and newly-developed electrified powertrain options to be made available across its entire model range going forward. The company has upgraded its existing T8 and T6 Twin Engine plug-in hybrid powertrains, while at the same time confirming that plug-in options will now be available on every model it produces.

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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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Baua Electric

MARCH 11, 2024

Just before Volvo continues its all-electric shift with the XC90-sized EX90 EV , it’s smoothed out its popular plug-in hybrid powertrain in the XC90. 2024 Volvo XC90 Recharge Pro: Volvo XC90 Recharge gets more electric range, more power, and smoother transitions Thanks to a new battery pack with 14.8

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 59,154 cars in November, up 12.0% Overall underlying demand for the company’s cars continues to remain robust, especially for its Recharge range of pure electric and plug-in hybrid cars. Volvo Cars’ US sales for the month reached 9,233, up 20.4% compared with the same month last year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Three of the most popular plug-in hybrids in 2020 all emitted more CO 2 than advertised when tested in the real world, according to tests commissioned by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). T&E said governments should therefore end the purchase subsidies and tax breaks for plug-in hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid with overhead conductive charging station and pantograph extended. As previously announced ( earlier post ), Volvo Buses will officially launch the new plug-in 7900 Electric Hybrid bus at the International IAA Commercial Vehicles show in September. Volvo Electric Hybrid drive system.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 15, 2022

Volvo boosts the electric range of its plug-in hybrids. The whole suite of Volvo plug-in hybrids are due to get a range boost—now up to 41 electric miles—with a larger 18.8-kwh kwh battery. GM provides backstory on its warp-speed Hummer EV project. And Sono Motors says its solar car is on pace.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Volvo Bus’ plug-in hybrid. Field tests being conducted in Gothenburg show that Volvo Buses’ plug-in hybrid reduces fuel consumption by 81% and total energy consumption (diesel plus electricity) by 61% compared to a comparable Euro 5 diesel bus. The batteries are charged at the bus terminus via the B?sbaar

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Volvo Buses is launching a new electrically-powered articulated bus that can carry up to 150 passengers and with 80% lower energy consumption compared to a corresponding diesel bus. With the Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated, Volvo Buses is making it attractive to electrify even high-frequency bus routes with large numbers of passengers.

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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. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

With the Volvo Concept Truck, Volvo Trucks has developed its first hybrid vehicle designed for long-haul applications. Volvo Trucks estimates that in long haul operation, the hybrid powertrain will allow the combustion engine to be shut off for up to 30% of the driving time. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Volvo earlier this year announced that it was adding a little more spark to its plug-in hybrid systems in its XC60 and XC90 T8 plug-in hybrids: by boosting their electric range. kwh battery pack, from the previous 10.4 Both models step up to an 11.6-kwh kwh pack (and 9.2 kwh just a couple of years prior).

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Green Car Congress

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

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. compared with the same month last year. in January year-on-year to 15,071 units, accounting for 31.7% of total sales).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

Volvo Cars reported retail sales of 45,952 cars in May, down 28.3% Sales of Recharge models (plug-in hybrid and fully electric) represented 33.6% Plug-in hybrid. Plug-in hybrid. Plug-in hybrid. Plug-in hybrid. Plug-in hybrid. Orders for fully electric Volvo cars continue to increase.

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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

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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