A 47-year-old Swedish business consultant has been charged with spying on several Swedish companies including Volvo and Scania. The consultant is suspected of having transferred material from computers to memory sticks as well as taking pictures of computer screens with the intention of selling them to the foreign power. “The man was apprehended whilst meeting […]
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Cyan Racing’s take on the P1800 has been winning a lot of admirers, but it’s not done showing off yet. Its latest round of assessment has seen it head north to the frozen lakes and snow-covered roads of Åre, Sweden. The test, says Cyan Racing, has helped prove that its lightweight chassis has been set […]
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This design study from former Volvo Studio intern Kevin Goldwasser shows us a shared mobility concept that might just catch on as it appears to answer the lesser asked question of ‘what may car sharing look like for those who like vehicles to have some character?’ Rather than envisioning some kind of driverless transportation pod, […]
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Volvo is no stranger to producing good-looking vehicles and while the car you’re looking at is an independently made illustration, it does have a lot going for it. The four-door coupe dubbed the Volvo Krigare, comes courtesy of designer Tomas Zumalakarregui and takes the form of a sleek four-door sedan with proportions that seem similar […]
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After a tepid 2020, 2021 has started in a very good way for Volvo as in the first month of the year the Swedish brand’s sales rose by 30.2 percent compared to January 2020. Although Volvo’s sales were not particularly strong a year ago (down by 9 percent compared to 2019), this doesn’t diminish its […]
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Volvo is opening up its Application Programming Interface (API) to anyone who likes to tinker. Through a service called innovation hub, third party developers can create in-car apps and new services for their Volvo. The hub is part of Volvo’s long history of offering its technology, like seatbelts, to anyone who wants to use them. […]
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Demand for EVs (BEVs and PHEVs combined) more than doubled in 2020 compared to 2019 in Europe, with a 147% increase from 575,000 to 1.42 million units sold. That represented 12% of the new passenger car registrations throughout the year, with one of four battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) registered on the continent being made by the […]
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Automakers spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads, but Volvo thinks that money could be better spent by giving away cars. As part of their Safety Sunday campaign, Volvo will give away $2 (£1.5 / €1.6) million worth of vehicles “should a safety be scored during the big game on February 7, 2021.” This […]
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Volvo Cars is teaming up with Gothenburg, Sweden to turn Scandinavia’s largest port city into a model for green cities of the future. The project, called Gothenburg Green City, is being planned, in part, by Volvo. That will mean electrified mobility from day one. It will also one day mean autonomous robotaxis operated by Volvo’s […]
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A manufacturing error has led to a recall Stateside for 2,883 units of the 2021 Volvo V60, V60 Cross Country, V90, V90 Cross Country, XC60 and XC90, with a 100 percent estimated defect rate. During assembly at Volvo’s Torslanda plant in Sweden, the SRS (Supplementary Restraint System), which controls the airbags, seatbelt pretensioners and disconnects […]
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