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. Volvo Electric Hybrid drive system.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Swedish luxury carmaker Volvo Cars could go fully electric in India by around 2025, much ahead of its global target of becoming a full electric car company by 2030, a senior company official said on Tuesday. Volvo Cars becomes the latest major automotive firm to lay out plans for a future centered around electric mobility.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

At the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Volvo Car Corporation will unveil the Volvo XC60 gasoline-electric Plug-in Hybrid Concept. In February 2011 at the Geneva Motor Show, Volvo introduced the diesel-electric V60 Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) to go on sale in Europe later this year. Earlier post.)

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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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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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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

If you needed a more definitive marker for the imminent end of the internal combustion engine, look no further than Wards 27 th annual 10 Best Engines & Propulsion Systems. The list of powertrains (note we can’t say engines anymore) was fairly exhaustive—39 vehicles were evaluated with 18 of those electrified models.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 21, 2024

A hybrid vehicle is powered by at least one electric motor and a gasoline engine, and its system recovers energy through regenerative braking. Sometimes the electric motor does all of the work, other times the combustion engine does, and sometimes both work together. The engine never truly powers the wheels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2020

Volvo Cars has opened order books for the XC40 Recharge P8 AWD ( earlier post ), the company’s first fully electric car which is based on the best-selling SUV, in selected markets. Production and the first customer deliveries of the XC40 Recharge P8 are scheduled to begin later this year.

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Baua Electric

MAY 13, 2023

2024 Volvo C40 Recharge We additionally spent once in a while at the back of the wheel of the 2024 Volvo XC40 Recharge and the alike C40 Recharge. Unutilized to the field is an entry-level model with a unmarried motor fastened on the rear, making those the primary rear-wheel-drive Volvos to succeed in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In addition to its planned market introduction of a plug-in hybrid in 2012 ( earlier post ), Volvo Cars is currently evaluating the viability of a fully battery-electric vehicle (BEV). This year, Volvo has built and been internally testing a small number of prototype versions of a BEV version of its C30. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Bus operator Sales-Lentz will use the charger to recharge electric hybrid buses from Volvo. The charging station has been installed at Gare de Bertrange/Strassen and will fully charge Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid buses with 150 kW of charging power in three to six minutes, during the layover times at the bus route’s end points.

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Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment. These insights are distilled into “Volvo Reports” and will feature a different topic each month. Methodology.

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Plug in America

JANUARY 22, 2021

With new electric vehicle adoption policies and bans on internal combustion engines rising around the world, the pressure to develop new EV models is also rising. . Volvo XC40 Recharge. While Volvo has had plug-in hybrid offerings, the XC40 Recharge will be the automaker’s first all-electric vehicle.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

This time, it is Volvo. Volvo C30 plug-in hybrid concept AutoBlogGreen "German auto website, Autobild, is reporting that Volvo is working on a plug-in diesel-electric hybrid with a similar powertrain design to the Chevy Volt concept unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show in early January. Volvo and Ford might steal GM's thunder yet."

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Drive Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

We investigated some of the most common questions and concerns about the dangers of owning and driving an EV and how they compare to internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) in terms of safety. Useful terms: Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle (ICEV) and Electric Vehicle (EV). Here’s what we discovered.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

Based on 12,330 miles driven per year, the pure battery electric Nissan Leaf has lower five-year and 10-year life cycle costs than the internal combustion Hyundai Elantra and the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, even without the federal government incentive. Tesla’s Superchargers can recharge EVs to 80% in 20 to 40 minutes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype multifunctional structural composite material composed of carbon fibers and a polymer resin which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is also strong and lightweight enough to be used for car parts.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

Electric cars and CNG variants fuelled growth Not only internal combustion engine-powered cars but electric vehicles, hybrid and CNG-powered models too witnessed massive growth in 2023. These SUVs cumulatively propelled the growth of passenger vehicle sales across the country in 2023.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Volvo has some of the most aggressive goals when it comes to brand-wide electrification, and the new C40 Recharge is a big step in its electric charge towards zero emissions. Its official name is the Volvo C40 Recharge Pure Electric, and it’s available as either a single motor or dual motor (the latter is called the Twin).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

The SAE Taskforce on wireless charging and positioning of electric vehicles (SAE J2954) ( earlier post ) is progressing, and is slated to have a final draft of the guideline this year, according to the Society of Automotive Engineers, International (SAE). Bus manufacturers Volvo and Proterra are also participating.

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EV Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

For many drivers, one of the biggest factors preventing them from making the move to electric is the fear that they’ll be unable to find sufficient charging stations to power their EV, leaving them frantically searching for chargers on road trips or driving well out of their way to find a place to recharge their batteries. Not anymore.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Supplying to Volvo Trucks or Daimler Trucks or whoever is more burdensome. Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 Most commercial trucks are engineered for 1.2 million miles, so the engineering that goes into making those vehicles be able to perform and last that long has to apply to the battery pack as well.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

On January 28 GM announced that it plans (aspires) to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035, ending production of its cars, trucks and SUVs with diesel- and gasoline-powered engines. So we think that gives us a chance to continue with strong sales from internal combustion engine perspective across our brands , and EVs are very additive.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Electric vehicles are powered by batteries instead of internal combustion engines. Kirsten Flynn of Palo Alto drives a 1991 Volvo station wagon and is determined to make her next car an electric one. Tang, a software engineer, says there’s a lot of “FUD&# — fear, uncertainty and doubt — about EVs. ’ &#.

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Blink Charging

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As one German study on psychological range noted, “users tend to avoid critical and potentially stressful range situations planning for substantial range buffers… Range buffers are also likely present in conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles [but] range buffers are more relevant for EV use.” According to the U.S.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 28, 2022

We were using the same 4 stroke engines to drive our modern cars for a century and the period 2025-2035 is going to change that. The problem is that they all work on the same principle of operations and the only distinguishing factor was how refined is the engine beneath that, everything was pretty the same. Driving Forces Behind.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan boldly proclaims that electric vehicles will reach price parity with internal-combustion-engine (ICE) vehicles by 2025. The International Energy Agency predicts that EVs will make up more than 60 percent of vehicles sold globally by 2030. A massive effort will be needed to make this happen.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Deciding that the future of transportation, and therefore their survival, will be based on EVs, many of the top auto companies have promised to end production of their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles by 2035, if not earlier. The systems and software engineering challenges are materially more demanding.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 26, 2009

Q: Currently only London can claim to have, in anyway, a widespread distribution of recharging points for electric vehicles – how do you envisage this problem to be solved? In the near future, the traditional combustion engine can still be further improved. Should public money be used to help the supply of infrastructure?

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Alfa Romeo Tonale – the Italian brand finally has a rechargeable car in its ranks in the form of the Tonale PHEV compact SUV. Alpha Ace Coupe – imagine a full-sized Aussie Racing Car but with an electric motor instead of a bike engine. V12 engine meets electric power for F1 pace. Expect to see it Down Under in 2023.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Honda Sees PHEVs as having "unnecessary fuel engine and fuel tank;" promises all-electrics "assuming we can come up with a really high-performing battery that we are working on currently." Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. See Chevy Volt for latest.

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EV Adoption

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I reached out to the Cadillac PR team to see if they had any insight as to whether the LYRIQ will be classified as an SUV or station wagon and received this response: “I heard back from the team (engineering) and it is too soon to speculate what it means for future products.” 4,000 Base Tax Credit. Effective Date: Jan 1, 2022.

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