Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2023

Volvo Group is the first truck manufacturer to launch an Augmented Reality (AR) safety app for electric trucks, designed specifically to support first responders in an emergency. The safety app has been developed by a team of experts at Volvo Group’s Research & Development facilities in Sweden, France, and the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

Volvo Trucks and Bucher Municipal have now entered into a collaboration to electrify sewer cleaner trucks. Bucher Municipal is expecting that up to 80 sewer trucks, or 50% of their production of cleaning vehicles, will be zero exhaust emission trucks from Volvo by the end of 2023. —Volvo Trucks President Roger Alm.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2023

Volvo Trucks has signed a letter of intent to sell 1,000 electric trucks between now and 2030 to Holcim, one of the world’s largest building solution providers. The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks; the first 130 trucks will be delivered in 2023 and 2024.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2023

Volvo Trucks is delivering 20 fully electric heavy trucks to the logistics company DFDS in Gothenburg, Sweden. The delivery is part of a total order for 125 electric trucks that DFDS has placed with Volvo. Some of the new electric fleet will be used to transport goods to and from the Volvo Trucks assembly plant in Gothenburg.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) announced an investment into battery pack production at its excavator plant in Changwon, South Korea. The Changwon plant in South Korea specializes in the production of excavators and is the biggest excavator production site in Volvo CE. With the SEK 80-million (around $7.8-million)

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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. —Jessica Sandström, Senior Vice President Product Management, Volvo Trucks.

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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

JULY 5, 2023

Every year tens of thousands of containers of production material destined for Volvo Cars factories are carried across the world’s oceans on container ships. —Javier Varela, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO Volvo Cars has been working on this initiative together with its logistics partners Maersk, Kuehne+Nagel and DB Schenker.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2025, Volvo Group’s truck plant in Ghent, Belgium will start to produce battery modules. The investment decision to install battery module manufacturing capacity in Ghent is another important step for the Volvo Group to shape its future value chain for battery systems. To date, partners supply both cells and modules to the Group.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

Volvo Trucks has delivered its first heavy electric truck to Rabat, Morocco. The truck is a Volvo FE Electric, one of six all-electric Volvo truck models, already in serial production. The truck is a Volvo FE Electric, one of six all-electric Volvo truck models, already in serial production.

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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 The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks, and one of the largest yet for heavy electric trucks worldwide. DFDS has chosen a financing solution provided by Volvo Financial Services.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Volvo launched its first-ever minivan earlier this week. continued] The post Volvo Launches $114,000 Electric Minivan appeared first on CleanTechnica. Dubbed the EM90, this is an electric (“E”) minivan (or “MPV,” for.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Volvo has a question for the ranks of the EV-curious: Is the 2025 Volvo EX30’s small carbon footprint a fair trade for its small physical footprint? The Chinese-owned Swedish car company has its most tidy SUV to date with the 2025 Volvo EX30, a crossover that’s not much larger than a Mini Cooper.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In a historic, first-ever win for an electric vehicle, the Volvo FH Electric class 8 truck is the 2024 International. continued] The post Volvo FH Electric Is First EV To Win Truck Of The Year appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Volvo believes an electric minivan could be the future of luxury vehicles—in some markets at least. Volvo confirmed Chinese sales when it first announced the EM90 in August, and didn't discuss other markets in this latest.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Proterra has been sold to the Volvo Group in a deal announced on November 10, 2023. What Volvo will do with it is the question. The post Volvo Group Acquires Proterra For $210 Million appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Tesla’s Giga Presses continue to catch on with other automakers shifting to electric vehicles (EVs), as the company’s casting machine supplier has just announced a new contract with Volvo. The casting machines, originally developed for Tesla, have also been adopted recently by Ford , Toyota and Volvo owner Geely.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The Volvo EX30 takes Volvo’s legacy of building some of the safest cars in the world, electrifies it, and wraps it all up in Volvo’s smallest SUV package ever. At the same time, the EX30 is the fastest SUV Volvo has ever built with a staggering 0 to 60 time of 3.4 seconds in the […]

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

And we get drive time in the very affordable and quick Volvo EX30, just as Volvo plans out its future around bidirectional charging in some of its other models. The 2025 Volvo EX30 electric crossover is coming soon and. Is Nissan planning its U.S. market future around hybrid trucks, electric ones, or both?

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Volvo has revealed U.S. The 2025 Volvo EX30 will come in Core, Plus, and Ultra versions for the U.S., pricing for its compact, Chinese-made electric car, the EX30. with all but the Core offered in a choice of single-motor rear-wheel-drive or dual-motor all-wheel-drive versions.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Last Friday, I was able to chat with Matt Wood, public relations and media manager at Volvo Australia, about Volvo’s. more] The post Volvo Leads The Way — Electric Trucks For Australia appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Volvo officially released its first electric minivan this weekend, the EM90. Rather than just a means of getting from Point A to Point B, Volvo designed the EM90 to make you feel at home no matter where the road takes you.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Volvo has announced pricing and opened pre-orders for the 2025 EX90 electric SUV. versions of the EX90 will start at $77,990 in its seven-passenger layout, while the six-passenger layout with captain’s chairs will start at $78,490 (all prices include the $1,295 destination fee).

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Volvo Trucks has scooped the prestigious industry award for its Volvo FH Electric. Volvo’s heavy electric truck, the Volvo FH Electric, has been selected as International Truck of the Year 2024. It’s the first time ever that an electric truck wins the award.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Chinese automaker Geely—parent company of Volvo, Polestar, and Lotus—has signed an agreement with Nio to use the latter's battery-swapping tech in the Chinese market.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Volvo EX90 gets U.S. Plug-in hybrid reliability is the pits, finds Consumer Reports. And Hyundai and Kia bypass some of the hurdles of in-wheel motors with their own solution. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Hyundai and Kia have shown an alternative to in-wheel motors that accomplishes some of the same packaging goals.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

continued] The post Volvo Makes Longest Ever All-Electric Truck Journey In Australia appeared first on CleanTechnica. As previously reported on CleanTechnica, Australian states and territories are reviewing trucking regulations around the width and weight of prime.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Up-and-coming Chinese EV maker NIO is partnering with Geely, the company behind Volvo, Polestar, and several other brands for EV battery swapping. more… The post Volvo, Polestar owner partners with NIO for EV battery swapping appeared first on Electrek.

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The Driven EV News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Volvo Trucks completes what it says is Australia’s longest electric truck journey, travelling 1,185 kilometres from Brisbane to Canberra in a heavy-duty truck in 19 hours, including charging time. The post Volvo claims Australia’s longest electric truck journey from Brisbane to Canberra appeared first on The Driven.

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Teslarati

JUNE 27, 2023

Volvo said today that it would adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS), opting to use the connector for its electric vehicles. The announcement makes Volvo the latest major automaker to adopt Tesla’s charging connector. The post Volvo adopts Tesla’s NACS Connector for EVs appeared first on TESLARATI.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Shirley and Bruce bought their dual/twin-motor Volvo XC40 Recharge, with 4 wheel drive, because they wanted to go green without screaming virtue signaling and ostentatious wealth. “We The message given by the Volvo is that they are environmentally conscious, in a subtle way. We decided not to buy an electric Mercedes,” they told me.

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EV Central

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Volvo has pulled the drapes off the Volvo EM90, its first minivan in more than 70 years of car-making. That’s because both Zeekr and Volvo are owned by the same Chinese parent, Geely. More recognisable are the the firm’s Thor’s Hammer headlamps that now flanks a neat illuminated Volvo logo.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Volvo Group has been selected as the winning bidder in an auction for the battery business and assets of troubled Proterra in the United States with a $210 million bid. The […] The post Volvo Group acquires Proterra’s battery business for $210m appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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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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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Because Volvo sold the 200 Series cars here from the 1975 through 1993 model years and so many owners loved those sensible bricks so deeply, plenty are only now showing up in the self-service car graveyards I frequent. Did the owner finally trade it in on a new Volvo? 1970 Volvo 145 in California junkyard.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 8, 2023

The Volvo EX30 was launched recently by Volvo and will be available in several markets around the world. There is a lot of excitement around Volvo’s new compact SUV, and rightfully so given its impressive specs. You can have a look at these two articles from Kyle Field and Chris Boylan here on CleanTechnica for […]

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Volvo Car USA announced today introductory configurations and pricing for the Swedish car manufacturer’s new fully electric flagship SUV. When it goes on sale next year the 2025 Volvo EX90 will start at $76,695 in the Twin Motor Plus configuration.

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