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MARCH 14, 2017

Volvo Cars announced a range of updates to its global connected services program and its Sensus in-car user interface, starting with the new XC60 and the company’s existing and new 90 Series cars. —Björn Annwall, Senior Vice President Global Consumer Experience at Volvo Car Group. —Björn Annwall.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Accident Ahead Alert feature is currently available in Denmark on all 90, 60 and 40 series Volvo car models, from model year 2016 and onwards. Suddenly, your Volvo car alerts you: there’s been an accident ahead. It will be available in compatible Volvo cars in Europe, starting from Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

The all-electric Volvo C40 Recharge is available online via volvocars.com in select markets across Europe as of this week. Unlimited data enables superior connectivity and the C40 Recharge is designed to receive software updates over the air. of total Volvo Car USA sales. of all Volvo sales in California.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Volvo Cars is updating its 90 series cars with new powertrain, safety and connectivity updates. Volvo’s 90 series cars will also now feature an Over-The-Air navigation update system, which ensures that the car always has the latest maps on-board. Today’s Volvos contain many safety sensors. l/100 km (54.7

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2018

majority stake in the Swedish telematics specialist WirelessCar from Volvo with a view to making further advances in fleet connectivity. WirelessCar registered in Gothenburg was founded in 1999 and has been a wholly-owned subsidiary by Volvo since 2007. The Volkswagen Group is acquiring a 75.1% The sales price amounts to SEK 1.1

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen) are joining forces in a pilot project in which road friction information from individual cars is shared within a cloud-based system. The information is also sent to the road administrator. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2019

Automated control of cars may enable drivers to achieve more fuel savings than if they were completely in charge, according to a new study conducted by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Volvo Cars. Zhu’s co-authors are Jeffrey Gonder, who manages his group, and three researchers from Volvo Cars.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 21, 2023

Leading truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks is setting the standard for the transition to all-electric heavy transport hauling. With one charging break along the route, Volvo’s heavy-duty electric truck impressively operates continuously for 12 hours and has a capacity of 74 tons.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2017

Volvo Cars announced that Polestar, its performance car arm, is to become a new separately-branded electrified global high performance car company, marking the latest stage in Volvo’s ongoing transformation. Ingenlath has been the inspiration behind Volvo’s award winning design renaissance in recent years.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

Volvo 9600 multi-axle 15m coaches will come equipped with pushback Luxury Seater, Semi-sleeper and Sleeper configurations, the company said in a media release. Volvo 9600 multi-axle 15m coaches will come equipped with pushback Luxury Seater, Semi-sleeper and Sleeper configurations, the company said in a media release.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2013

Volvo unveiled the new Volvo Concept Coupé, the first of a series of three concept cars that reveal the design possibilities created by the company’s new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA). This gives Volvo Concept Coupé a total output of around 400 hp (298 kW) and more than 600 N·m (443 lb-ft) of torque.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2017

Volvo Cars has become the first automaker in the world to export China-made cars to Europe by train via China’s new “One Belt, One Road” trade initiative. The first S90 premium sedans, built at Volvo’s Daqing plant in China, will arrive at a distribution centre in Zeebrugge, Belgium this week.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2016

China-based automaker Geely has launched Lynk & Co —a new global car brand designed and engineered in Sweden; every model will feature an electrified powertrain. Full mobile connectivity will also be standard, working in partnership with Ericsson. —Andreas Nilsson, Head of Lynk & Co design.

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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 inch digital gauge cluster.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Under a SuperTruck II award announced by the US Department of Energy (DOE) ( earlier post ), Volvo Group North America is scheduled to receive $20 million in federal funding that it will use to improve the freight-moving efficiency of heavy-duty trucks. The Volvo Group and its partners will match the development funds dollar-for-dollar.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2014

Volvo Cars revealed the XC90, its new 7-seat SUV, at an event in Sweden. Volvo Cars also announced the release of a limited First Edition of its new flagship; the 1,927 individually numbered cars celebrate the year Volvo was founded and will only be available for sale online at www.volvocars.com, beginning 3 Sep. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2022

of the projected US electric vehicle production through the end of 2023 and was designed to fit into the forecast production envelopes of each automaker. of the projected US electric vehicle production through the end of 2023 and was designed to fit into the forecast production envelopes of each automaker. Telematics: Fully connected.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

Volvo Car has enhanced its mobile app, Volvo On Call, with a new design, extra features and added vehicle connectivity. The app also enables users to connect with the plug-in diesel V60 Hybrid. Volvo On Call is available as an option on all models in the Volvo range. Charge interruption warning.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2017

Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) presented the HX2 autonomous, battery-electric, load carrier at CONEXPO/CON-AGG 2017. Volvo CE showcased the first-generation of the prototype HX machine—HX1—at the company’s Xploration Forum in September last year. Since then, Volvo CE’s engineers have been further developing the machine.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Volvo Cars has raised SEK5 billion (US$533 million) from the sale of newly-issued preference shares to a group of Swedish institutional investors. The issuance has been conducted to further diversify Volvo Cars’ long-term funding sources. At this time, no decision has been taken.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Uber is expanding its self-driving pilot to San Francisco, California, using specially-converted self-driving Volvo XC90 premium SUVs. Volvo Cars and Uber are contributing a combined US$300 million to the project. Both Uber and Volvo will use the same base vehicle for the next stage of their own autonomous car strategies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

The pilot is designed to advance the Aurora Driver, and Aurora Horizon, Aurora’s autonomous truck product, to develop a robust service for carriers. Aurora is partnered with industry leaders across the transportation ecosystem, including Toyota, FedEx, Volvo Trucks, PACCAR, Uber, Uber Freight, US Xpress, and Werner.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2015

Volvo Cars will build a manufacturing facility in the US, fulfilling its ambition to be a truly global car maker, investing around US$500 million in the plant and underscoring its long term commitment to the US market. The move will give Volvo an industrial footprint on three key continents. Today, we became that.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Volvo unveiled its new Volvo V90 wagon in Stockholm, Sweden. The 90 series vehicles are built on the company’s specially-designed and fully modular Scalable Product Architecture (SPA). The Volvo S90 and V90 eight-speed planetary automatic transmission is a key part of Volvo’s Drive-E powertrain technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Volvo Car Corporation intends to gain leadership in the field of autonomous driving as the next major step forward in vehicle safety. It will also likely be an important capability for attracting the next-generation of auto consumers, says Volvo Car Corporation President and CEO Stefan Jacoby. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

Volvo Cars unveiled two new 40 series concept cars, marking the official launch of its global small car strategy. The new concept cars will be the first built around Volvo’s new Compact. Volvo plans to have sold a total of up to 1 million electrified cars by 2025 globally. Earlier post.). Profiles of the two 40 series concepts.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Volvo has received an order for 11 electric hybrid buses and 2 ABB automated electric bus fast-chargers to the city of Namur in Belgium with public transport authority and operator TEC. The buses also have a 4-cylinder, 5-liter Volvo D5F diesel engine, which increases reach and flexibility. ABB bus chargers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Volvo Group’s American subsidiary Mack Trucks announced plans to commercialize the Mack LR Electric, its refuse model equipped with a fully electric integrated Mack drivetrain. In addition, minimal changes to the gauges and select switchgear were made, allowing Mack to carry over the ergonomic driver-designed LR cab.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Automakers rely on BlackBerry QNX software for a broad range of critical systems for the vehicles of today and for the next generation software-defined vehicles of the future, as exampled by the growth announced today and the company’s design wins with 24 of the top 25 Electric Vehicle OEMs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2012

Volvo Trucks is adding two X—exceptional efficiency—drivetrain packages featuring the 16-liter Volvo D16 engine for the North American market. Volvo first introduced its downspeeding concept in September 2011 with the XE13 powertrain package, which utilizes Volvo’s 13-liter D13 engine. ratio instead of the 3.73

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2021

Baidu will provide intelligent driving capabilities to power the passenger vehicles for the new venture, and Geely, which holds the distinction of best-selling Chinese automobile brand in past years under the Volvo and Geely brands, will contribute its expertise in automobile design and manufacturing.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The new Concept You show car is an example of coming designs based on the SPA. Volvo is seeking to promote economies of scale within the company’s own model range via a separate architecture for most of its products. In today’s model range, for example, the Volvo S60, V60 and XC60 form one cluster. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Volvo and its Chinese parent Geely are very serious about selling cars that plug in. In 2019, Volvo launched the XC40 compact crossover, a boxy but stylish compact SUV with a 2.0-liter 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

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In 2018, Consumer Reports (CR) began ranking active driving assistance systems, with the initial effort focused on systems from Cadillac, Nissan/Infiniti, Tesla, and Volvo. Of the other systems tested, CR reported minor improvements in lane keeping performance for the Tesla and Volvo.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2013

Volvo Car Group will introduce a number of safety and driver assistance technologies in the all-new Volvo XC90 at the end of 2014, including the use of autonomous steering functions to avoid accidents and make driving more comfortable, according to Thomas Broberg, Senior Safety Advisor Volvo Car Group. —Thomas Broberg.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In November, Tesla opened its EV charging connector design—called the North American Charging Standard (NACS)—to charging network operators and vehicle manufacturers. The Combined Charging System can connect to all AC charging stations without an adapter via the J1772 standard. Earlier post.) issued a response.

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