Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Volvo Buses is participating in a research project in which used electric bus batteries are used as solar energy storage units. Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. —Ylva Olofsson, Project Coordinator at Volvo.
Cars That Think
JUNE 12, 2023
The shipping containers, which house a Frankenstein-like assortment of machine parts—motors repurposed from Volvo truck engines, giant tanks of compressed air, huge silos of piping hot sand—are produced by a company called Cheesecake Energy. When does it make sense to buy electricity directly from the grid?
Charged EVs
AUGUST 2, 2023
Supplying to Volvo Trucks or Daimler Trucks or whoever is more burdensome. Whether that’s Volvo, Freightliner, PACCAR or Navistar, they have relationships with those OEMs and so they’re going to trust them to build a vehicle that will perform under the conditions that they need it to perform. It’s less time and effort.
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