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Volvo Cars January global sales up 2%; Recharge models up 31%, for 40.7% of all cars sold

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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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Volvo Cars to triple electric car production capacity in Ghent after strong year of electrified car sales

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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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BASF boosts support for sustainable road construction with global distribution rights for RheoFalt rejuvenator

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Excluded from the agreement are Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, where Ventraco will continue to supply the products. We are pleased to have won BASF for sales and the joint further development of our RheoFalt product. We see that the use of additives in bitumen needs to be controlled and improved to achieve good quality.

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Volvo Cars sales return to growth in China, but down 43.8% in April y-o-y overall; plug-in share doubles to 14%

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In the January to April period, Volvo Cars global sales reached 163,649 cars, down 24.9% China sales in April reached 14,724 cars, up 20.8% In the first four months of the year sales declined by 15.6 US sales in April stood at 3,866 cars, down 53.8%, compared with the same month last year. year-on-year.

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Volvo Cars building €1.2B EV manufacturing plant in Slovakia; third in Europe

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The new plant will be climate-neutral and build only electric cars, underpinning the company’s ambition to become fully electric by 2030 and climate-neutral by 2040, and to continue expanding its global production capacity to match its growth ambitions. Volvo Cars has an ambition to move towards annual sales of 1.2

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Volvo Cars launches all-electric Volvo C40 Recharge; all cars to be pure electric by 2030

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By 2025, Volvo Cars aims for 50% of its global sales volume to consist of fully electric cars, with the rest hybrids. The C40 Recharge will go in production this fall and will be built alongside the XC40 Recharge at the Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Ghent, Belgium.

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Volvo Trucks starts series production of heavy-duty electric trucks

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The three models represent around two-thirds of the company’s sales. With these new additions, Volvo Trucks has six electric truck models in series production globally—the broadest electric truck line up in the industry. By 2030, at least 50 percent of the trucks we sell globally should be electric. —Roger Alm.

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