Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

Volvo Car Group intends to establish a joint venture with Swedish battery company Northvolt to develop and produce more sustainable batteries, tailored to power the next generation of pure electric Volvo and Polestar cars. —Håkan Samuelsson, chief executive at Volvo Car Group. “.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Volvo Cars and Northvolt have selected Gothenburg, Sweden to establish a new battery manufacturing plant which will commence operations in 2025, and complement the planned R&D center that both companies announced in December as part of an investment of approximately SEK 30 billion (US$3.3 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Volvo Cars is opening a new Tech Hub in Singapore, a global hotspot for advanced technology and manufacturing excellence. The new Tech Hub will be a key center for data and analytics, software and advanced manufacturing development in line with Volvo Cars’ ambition to be a leader in new technology and a fully electric car maker by 2030.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Volvo Trucks will introduce all-electric Volvo VNR regional-haul demonstrators in California next year, operating in distribution, regional-haul and drayage operations. Sales of the VNR Electric in North America will begin in 2020. Sister company Volvo Buses has sold more than 4,000 electrified buses since 2010.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

Volvo Cars will introduce its unsupervised autonomous driving feature Ride Pilot to customers in the state of California first. Once it has been verified as safe for use on highways, Ride Pilot is planned to be available as an add-on subscription on the company’s forthcoming fully electric SUV.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Volvo Cars and Geely intend to merge their existing combustion engine operations into a stand-alone business in order to establish a new global supplier that will seek to develop next generation combustion engines and hybrid powertrains. Volvo Cars Drive-E 4 cylinder gasoline engine - T4/T3/T2.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Volvo Cars will introduce the fully electric XC40 SUV to the public on 16 October. The company says that, in true Volvo tradition, it is also introducing one of the safest cars on the road, despite a fresh set of challenges presented by the absence of an internal combustion engine.

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Electrek

APRIL 20, 2023

Volvo Group is leading the charge towards a sustainable future as demand for fully electric trucks and buses continues building globally. Volvo Group delivered a total of 683 electric trucks in the first quarter of 2023, up 254% year-over-year (YOY).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Volvo Cars and Northvolt will open a joint research and development (R&D) center in Gothenburg as part of a SEK 30 billion (US$3.3 It will produce next generation state-of-the-art battery cells, specifically developed for use in next generation pure electric Volvo and Polestar cars.

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 1, 2022

Volvo Cars announces today it will establish a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Volvo Cars has announced that it will be taking an ethical stand for animal welfare in its electric vehicles. On September 23rd, the Swedish automaker officially announced that every new fully-electric Volvo model will come with a completely leather-free interior, starting with the C40 Recharge.

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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. of its total US sales. It’s focusing on hybrids and gas cars.

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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

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.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 4, 2024

Volvo is getting a massive €420 million ($460M) loan as the automaker moves to a fully electric future by 2030. The funds are for Volvo to develop a new EV platform for its next-gen models. The funding will be used for building a new EV platform, including the necessary research and development that comes with it.

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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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InsideEVs

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

The Swedish automaker compares how much it emits to make an XC40 versus a fully-electric C40 or XC40 Recharge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2018

Volvo Cars said that by the middle of the next decade, it expects to generate half of all sales annually from fully electric cars; one third of all cars sold to be autonomous driving cars and half of all cars it offers to customers from its subscription service. This means that Volvo Cars is also changing rapidly.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Volvo has joined Tesla in stopping its EV production in Europe due to the threat of violence from Iran-backed Houthi fighters attacking commercial ships traveling in the Red Sea. Tesla and Volvo are among several companies having to direct ships away from the Red Sea amid the threat of attacks, Automotive News Europe reports.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

Polestar, the premium electric car brand from Sweden, announced that its first all-electric SUV will be manufactured in the United States. The forthcoming Polestar 3 will be manufactured alongside new Volvo vehicles at the Volvo Cars production center in Ridgeville, South Carolina.

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EV Central

JUNE 7, 2023

The Volvo EX30 has been revealed as the entry point to the expanding EV lineup for the Swedish brand. The all-new, all-electric Volvo EX30 SUV has been priced from $59,990 plus on-road costs ahead of first customer deliveries late in 2023. It gets a single electric motor making 200kW and 343Nm and driving the rear wheels.

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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 ). Volvo Cars will also develop an entirely new range of electrified smaller cars and build a fully electric car for sale by 2019.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Still, the arrival of Cadillac signals the intention of the iconically American brand to take on the world’s best luxury brands, including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volvo and Lexus. Cadillac will also naturally be compared with electric car brands such as Tesla and Polestar. We will build that trust through time.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Havila Kystruten has been honored with a contract of building four new ships which will be equipped with zero emission solutions. When entering the fjords, they can operate fully electric for a long time with no other emissions than water. The first of the four ships will be taken in to operation in 2021. —Per Wassén.

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Baua Electric

MAY 4, 2024

Yesterday in a review of the Acura ZDX Green Car Reports looked at whether the first fully electric vehicle from this Honda luxury brand keeps it on-brand—even with GM bones. Lucid Gravity prototype The 2024 Acura ZDX EV is the quickest SUV ever from the Honda luxury brand—and it definitely looks the part.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

You’ll never know how far the Tesla Semi, the Volvo VNR, or other electric semi-trucks will go according to EPA testing standards. For this reason, the agencies have not based the Phase 2 standards on adoption of full-electric vocational vehicles. ” So, how do manufacturers determine range?

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

The HAMM HD 12e VV is the second fully electric construction equipment piloted by Skanska on the Purple (D Line) Extension Transit Project. You can read about its Volvo electric excavator pilot here. Skanska aims to achieve 70% carbon reduction by 2030 across its global operations and entire value chain.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Unveiled in 2019, the Polestar 2 put the brand on a new path toward becoming an all-electric automaker. The Polestar 2 is the brand’s first fully electric vehicle after the Polestar 1, a hybrid with up to 78 miles of electric range. Polestar’s electric performance car fuses Swedish luxury into the compact EV segment.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

All-electric Ford Explorer (Source: Ford) CEO Jim Farley reiterated Ford’s commitment to the region, saying, “We are fully committed to manufacturing in Canada and believe this decision will help us build a profitably growing business for the long term.” Meanwhile, Ford said progress at its Tennessee EV plant is on track.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

The 3 from Polestar ($PSNY) is the third model from the Geely-owned automaker and its second fully-electric option behind the popular Polestar 2 sedan. After recently acquiring $1 billion in external funds , Polestar 3 production is now underway in China, with US builds expected to follow later this year.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 9, 2021

This past week was a whirlwind of EV news and developments from FedEx’s plans to electrify its fleet by 2040, VW saying it expects 50% of its US sales to be from EVs, to GM’s likely plans to build a second battery factory with LG Chem, and much more … Automaker/EV Models. VW expects half of U.S. Batteries and Charging.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 6, 2021

Most of the car companies have made it their goal to go fully electric by a specific year. For GM it’s 2035 and for Volvo, it’s 2030. To establish the name in the EV sector and capture the growing market, Mercedes has a vision and a plan.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 28, 2022

A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV or plug-in) has a battery that is about ten times the size of a hybrid and can drive the car for 20 to 50 miles before the gasoline engine kicks in, allowing it to operate as a fully electric commuter car Monday through Friday and as a traditional car on weekends. Conclusion.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Race Among The Automobile Manufacturers The internal combustion engine (ICE) has powered our cars for over a century and is being gradually replaced by electric vehicles (EVs). To support the claim, consider this, fully electric vehicles made for 6.8% in 2020 and the trend is not going down.

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