Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

Volvo Group Venture Capital AB has invested in Driivz Ltd. , a global EV charging software company which has developed a platform for managing large charging networks for electric vehicles from end-to-end. The Volvo Group ambition is to offer state-of-the-art truck charging services for a seamless charging experience.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

The world’s first truck manufacturer to do so, Volvo is now introducing fossil-free steel in its trucks. The steel is produced by the Swedish steel company SSAB ( earlier post ) and the heavy-duty electric Volvo trucks will be the first to include it. Volvo Group is collaborating with SSAB on fossil-free steel since 2021.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Volvo Trucks received an order for 100 Volvo FM Electric trucks from DFDS, Northern Europe’s?largest largest shipping and logistics company. The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks, and one of the largest yet for heavy electric trucks worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

Volvo Trucks has delivered its first heavy electric truck to Rabat, Morocco. The customer is the refuse collection company Arma, and this is the first heavy battery-electric truck from a global manufacturer to be in commercial operation in Africa. Morocco has ambitious climate goals, based on large investments in renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

Volvo Trucks and Deutsche Post DHL Group have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the shift to zero-exhaust-emission vehicles. DHL intends to intensify its transition to heavy electric trucks by deploying a total of 44 new electric Volvo trucks on routes in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Volvo Trucks North America’s customers and carrier partners, Watsontown Trucking Company and Camrett Logistics, have placed orders for their first Volvo VNR Electric trucks. The Volvo VNR Electric model entered serial production at NRV earlier this year. Volvo VNR Electric NRV zero-emissions logistics transport vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Performance Team – A Maersk Company, a warehousing and distribution company, has placed an order for 16 Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 trucks ( earlier post )—the largest commercial order of the North American zero-tailpipe emission model to date. We’re seeing a 30% growth rate in our Warehousing and Distribution business.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

Volvo Trucks is opening its first battery assembly plant. Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full electric heavy-duty trucks. By 2030, at least 50 percent of all trucks we sell globally will be electric and by 2040, we will be a carbon-neutral company. —Roger Alm.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

Volvo Cars is integrating and testing wireless charging technology in a live city environment together with selected partners, evaluating its potential for future electric cars. To easily align the car with the charging pad, Volvo Cars will use its 360-degree camera system.

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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

MARCH 5, 2022

Volvo Cars is introducing a range of updates to its entire car line-up, the most prominent of which is an exterior refresh of its fully electric XC40 Recharge. The company also unveiled a single electric motor variant of the pure electric C40 Recharge. C40 Recharge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2023

Volvo Trucks has delivered an electric truck for heavy transport to a haulier in Gothenburg, Sweden. Mattsson Åkeri in Gothenburg, Sweden is one of them, and the company has now bought three heavy electric Volvo FH trucks from Volvo. The truck can handle a total weight of 74 tonnes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2023

Volvo Trucks North America is working with the University of Minnesota (UMN) to conduct extreme weather testing for its Class 8 VNR Electric model to analyze the impact of ambient temperature on a truck’s battery life.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 6, 2024

Volvo sold more cars last month than ever before in company history, thanks in large part to big demand for the new EX 30. The post Volvo Sets All-Time Sales Record Thanks To EV Sales Surge appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

New statistics show that Volvo Trucks was the market leader for heavy all-electric trucks in Europe 2021 with a market share of 42%. In 2021 the company took orders, including letters of intent to buy, for more than 1,100 electric trucks worldwide. Volvo Trucks has the largest market share at 42%.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Volvo Cars successfully placed its first green bond, raising €500 million from a diverse group of institutional investors and further increasing the company’s financial flexibility. As a first tangible step towards its 2040 vision the company aims to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As the world’s first truck manufacturer to do so, Volvo has begun using fossil-free steel in its trucks. In September, Volvo Trucks started series production of heavy-duty electric, 44 tonne trucks, as the first global truck manufacturer to achieve this. Also, up to 90% of the truck can be recycled at the end of its life.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

Volvo Cars will take software development in-house as a car’s appeal increasingly becomes more defined by software-driven functions and features, rather than traditional automotive attributes. Coupled with more frequent over-the-air updates to customer cars through their lifetime, the company’s aim is to make Volvo cars better every day.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2023

Volvo Group’s Nova Bus is ending bus production in the US market; the company has decided to close its Plattsburgh manufacturing and delivery facility by 2025. The restructuring will not have a material impact on Volvo Group revenues. When completed, the restructuring is expected to make the Nova Bus operation profitable.

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Teslarati

APRIL 16, 2024

Polestar has had a rocky start to the year, with rumors that parent company Volvo was ready to back out of its role as a majority stakeholder. In February, Volvo signaled that it was considering giving up its shares of Polestar to Geely , just weeks ahead of the Polestar 3 entering production in China.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The top 10 global producers of Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles are all Asian companies, according to an analysis posted on the Visual Capitalist. Chinese companies make up 56% of the EV battery market, followed by Korean companies (26%) and Japanese manufacturers (10%).

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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. The Volvo LIGHTS project’s transformative impact on fleet operations is designed to be scalable and replicable to reduce emissions throughout the freight eco-system.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America’s customer WattEV has ordered 50 Class 8 Volvo VNR Electric trucks to launch its Truck-as-a-Service (TaaS) model in California. As WattEV’s public charging network expands nationwide, the company plans to scale its depots to provide 1.2 MW charging capability for ultra-fast charging.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

Volvo Cars is teaming up with Swedish steel maker SSAB to jointly explore the development of fossil-free, high-quality steel for use in the automotive industry. As part of the collaboration, Volvo Cars will be the first car maker to secure SSAB steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron from HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

Volvo Cars successfully placed its second green bond to raise €500 million from a diverse set of global investors. All proceeds are earmarked for funding and accelerating the company’s transformation towards becoming a fully electric carmaker by 2030 and becoming climate-neutral and circular by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2023

Maersk has purchased 25 Volvo FH Electric trucks in Germany. This strategic investment highlights the company’s commitment to decarbonizing global logistics and to becoming a net-zero company by 2040 across all business areas and all modes of transport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2022

After its 2019 appearance at TOC Europe—the tradeshow for port and terminal technology and operations—as a proof of concept ( earlier post ), Volvo Penta’s purpose-built electric driveline is now powering a series of TICO’s electric terminal tractors as well as Rosenbauer’s electric fire trucks. Earlier post.).

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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

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

JUNE 17, 2022

Following the completion of a multi-stakeholder research project aimed at breaking new ground in hydrogen technology, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has started testing of the world’s first fuel-cell articulated hauler prototype, the Volvo HX04. minutes, enabling it to operate for approximately four hours.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 1, 2023

Volvo has acquired Zenseact, an autonomous driving hardware and software supplier. A month ago, Ford was forced to divest from its autonomous vehicle company after struggling with profitability. A month ago, Ford was forced to divest from its autonomous vehicle company after struggling with profitability.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Volvo Cars has acquired a stake in mobile EV rapid charging company FreeWire Technologies ( earlier post ) via the Volvo Cars Tech Fund. FreeWire is a San Francisco-based company that has been a pioneer in flexible fast-charging technology for electric cars. —Zaki Fasihuddin, CEO of the Volvo Cars Tech Fund.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2022

Volvo Group Venture Capital has invested in Optibus , a cloud-native, end-to-end software platform for public transportation planning and operations, to advance bus electrification and the digitalization of the public transportation industry. We are impressed by the founders, the team culture, and the company’s achievements.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2021

Albertsons Companies, the second-largest grocery chain in the US, recently took delivery of two Volvo VNR Electric trucks at its distribution center in Irvine, California. The VNR Electric models from Volvo Trucks North America are the first zero-tailpipe emission, battery-electric Class 8 trucks to be deployed in Albertsons Cos.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2023

Volvo Trucks and mining company Boliden are joining forces to implement electric truck transport in underground environments. Volvo Trucks and Boliden are collaborating on the use of electric trucks in underground mining (image does not show the Kankberg mine).

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Teslarati

JUNE 29, 2023

Polestar announced today it would adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector just two days after parent company Volvo opted to make the same move. The company will adopt NACS on its vehicles in 2025. “We want to make life with an electric car as easy as possible,” Volvo CEO Jim Rowan said.

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