Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

A composite blend of carbon fibers and polymer resin is being developed that can store and charge more energy faster than conventional batteries can. Volvo Cars is the only car manufacturer participating in the EU-funded project, which started in early 2010. Volvo Car Group—the only automaker participating in a 3.5-year

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2020

Volvo Penta has developed an electric driveline for leading fire service vehicle manufacturer Rosenbauer’s pioneering fire truck, enabling a new solution with zero exhaust emissions and significantly reduced noise levels.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Volvo on Thursday announced a new business unit focused on tapping into the potential of EV bidirectional charging. Volvo Cars Energy Solutions will offer "energy storage and charging-related technologies and services," according to a company press release. until the launch of the Volvo EX90, the first Volvo.

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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. Despite its name, Cheesecake Energy isn’t in the food business.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Volvo Group has created the new business area Volvo Energy to strengthen the Volvo Group’s business flow of batteries over the life cycle as well as the customer offer for charging infrastructure. Volvo Energy will be a business area with full profit and loss responsibility.

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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.

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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. Sister company Volvo Buses has sold more than 4,000 electrified buses since 2010. —Peter Voorhoeve, president of Volvo Trucks North America.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

Rapidly moving towards becoming a fully electric car company, Volvo Cars is bringing battery cell technology development and production closer to home and aims to tailor its future batteries to the needs of its customers: a longer range and faster charging times. Battery cells from Volvo Cars’ planned collaboration with Northvolt aim to be.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2018

Volvo Trucks introduced its first battery-electric truck for commercial use: the Volvo FL Electric for urban distribution and refuse operations, among other applications. Electric drive unit for Volvo FL Electric. Backing the Volvo Trucks offer is the Volvo Group’s accumulated expertise in electrified transport solutions.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

continued] The post Electrifying Construction Equipment — Volvo CE Deep Dive appeared first on CleanTechnica. We write and talk a lot here on CleanTechnica about the electric vehicle revolution, but we often focus on passenger.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Volvo Buses is launching a new electrically-powered articulated bus that can carry up to 150 passengers and with 80% lower energy consumption compared to a corresponding diesel bus. With the Volvo 7900 Electric Articulated, Volvo Buses is making it attractive to electrify even high-frequency bus routes with large numbers of passengers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2014

WHP specializes in the design and manufacture of composite flywheel-based energy storage systems, initially focused on the bus, truck and tram markets. GKN plc, the global engineering group, has acquired Williams Hybrid Power Limited (WHP) from Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited. The new business will be called GKN Hybrid Power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In the coming years, production capacity at Northvolt Ett will increase towards 60 GWh per year to fulfill more than $30 billion worth of contracts Northvolt has secured from key customers, including BMW, Fluence, Scania, Volkswagen, Volvo Cars and Polestar.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2018

Maxwell Technologies is putting the lifetime value of its recently announced deal to provide ultracapacitor-based subsystems to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely), the parent company of leading brands such as Volvo and Geely Auto ( earlier post ), at $100 million. The vehicles will initially be available in North America and Europe.

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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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Innovation News Network

APRIL 10, 2024

The European Commission has announced approval of €267m state aid funding for a Volvo EV production plant in Slovakia. The post EU Commission approves €267m funding for Volvo EV production plant appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America brought customers, partners, and media out to its customer center in Dublin, Virginia as part of its 2022 Electromobility Summit.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The other HyCET project partners are DEUTZ AG, DHL Freight GmbH, KEYOU GmbH, TotalEnergies Marketing Deutschland GmbH and Volvo Group. Hydrogen is a good energy-storage solution for climate-friendly transportation that can supplement battery-electric mobility. The BMDV is also providing an additional €5.7

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Innovation News Network

JANUARY 5, 2024

The European Investment Bank has signed a €420m financing agreement to help create a fully electric Volvo car platform. The post EIB funds €420m to support fully electric Volvo car range appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid with overhead conductive charging station and pantograph extended. As previously announced ( earlier post ), Volvo Buses will officially launch the new plug-in 7900 Electric Hybrid bus at the International IAA Commercial Vehicles show in September. Total energy consumption is reduced by 60%.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Volvo CE AirBurners BioCharger; image via Air Burners. And when you’re tasked with clearing trees, blazing trails, and quite literally laying the foundations of infrastructure and energy grid expansion, there simply isn’t a place to plug in your electric equipment. Enter: the BioCharger. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Volvo Car’s flywheel KERS system. If the energy in the flywheel is combined with the combustion engine’s full capacity, it will give the car an extra 80 horsepower. The experimental car, a Volvo S60, accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 5.5 The flywheel that Volvo Cars used in the experimental system is made of carbon fiber.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2018

Maxwell Technologies, a leading developer and manufacturer of capacitive energy storage and power delivery solutions, announced a technology partnership with Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely), the parent company of leading brands such as Volvo and Geely Auto.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

has received a second supply order from Volvo Car Corporation to manufacture its 24 kWh, lithium-ion battery pack to power Volvo’s C30 Electric car. The split-pack design (tunnel and tank) that EnerDel designed, with integration support from Volvo’s engineering team, will again be manufactured to Volvo’s exacting specifications.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

With funding provided by the California Energy Commission, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) demonstrated its LX1 prototype mid-sized (20 ton) hybrid-electric wheel loader ( earlier post ), a piece of equipment widely used in the construction, refuse, and agricultural industries, that achieved a 50% improvement in fuel efficiency.

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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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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 21, 2021

Porsche is entering into a joint venture with Customcells and Volvo is partnering with Norhtvolt as both companies look to lock down their future battery supplies.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

EVs Fisker Ocean all-electric SUV will make its European debut at Mobile World Congress Vauxhall named UK’s best-selling electric LCV manufacturer Volvo & Northvolt accelerate […]. We’ve also included a few solar power stories.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Project partners Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) and Volvo Trucks North America (Volvo Trucks) will produce and deliver the Class 8 battery-electric trucks (BETs) for deployment in Schneider and NFI’s Southern California fleet operations. million of regional economic activity from associated construction costs.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Volvo is pulling depleted batteries out of electric buses to use as energy storage for solar in a large apartment complex in Sweden. Could high-speed rail be replaced with high-speed highways? Argonne National Lab has developed a smaller, lighter, more efficient electric motor. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Volvo Cars will introduce a front-wheel drive (FWD), 3-cylinder engine variant of its Twin Engine plug-in hybrid electric vehicle system in 2018, followed by its first production battery-electric vehicles and a new 48V mild hybrid system in 2019, according to Mats Anderson, Senior Director of Electric Propulsion Systems.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Volvo is making moves that will give it full control over its future.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2014

Volvo Car Group and engineering company Flybrid Automotive, part of the Torotrak Group, have been conducting UK tests of lightweight Flybrid flywheel KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) technology. —Derek Crabb, Vice President Powertrain Engineering at Volvo Car Group. Rear-axle KERS unit. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 2, 2021

DeepGreen has written an open letter to various brands, such as BMW, Google, Samsung SDI, and Volvo. Before I dive in and share the open letter, I want to re-share what DeepGreen is: a deep-sea mining company that has a vision of a zero-carbon, circular economy with goals to source metals with the least environmental […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

From Electric Vehicle News Norwegian Post orders 29 Volvo electric truck, milestone order for Volvo electric trucks Hexagon Purus signs agreement with Hino Motors to supply battery packs for serial production of zero emission heavy-duty vehicles […]. The electric vehicle revolution is fully underway.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2011

Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) has received a grant of 6.57 million) from the Swedish Energy Agency to develop and test a flywheel kinetic energy recovery system in a joint project together with Volvo Powertrain and SKF. Tests in a Volvo car will begin in the second half of 2011. Flywheel KERS component details.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Ford, Volvo, and Redwood Materials have created a free battery recycling program.

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