Volvo Cars will add its best-selling XC60 mid-size SUV to the production line of its US car plant in Ridgeville outside Charleston, South Carolina.
With the new and fully electric ES90, which starts production later this summer and is produced with climate-neutral energy, Volvo Cars launches a car designed with sustainability in mind.
Volvo Cars and Polestar have signed a memorandum of understanding for the development and production of Polestar 7 premium compact SUV at Volvo Cars’ new manufacturing plant in Kosice, Slovakia.
The sales of electrified models – fully electric and plug-in hybrid models – decreased 19 per cent compared to the same period last year and accounted for 44 per cent of all cars sold during June.
Volvo has issued a recall affecting over 14,000 electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in the United States due to a serious software glitch that could disable braking.
Volvo Cars unveiled a major safety improvement to the safety belt. The new multi-adaptive safety belt is a world-first technology aimed to further enhance safety for everyone in real-world traffic situations.
Volvo Cars' sales of electrified models – fully electric and plug-in hybrid models – accounted for 44 per cent of all cars sold during May and decreased by 20 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Volvo Cars is expanding its partnership with Google, to more rapidly deliver the latest Android Automotive OS innovations to customers that own Volvo models with Google built-in.
The new Volvo XC70 mid-size SUV is Volvo Cars’ first extended-range plug-in hybrid. It provides a pure electric range of up to 200 kilometers (124 miles), making it Volvo Cars’ longest-range plug-in hybrid to date.
Volvo Cars sold 11,697 all-electric vehicles, down 32% from a year earlier. The share of fully electric cars constituted 20 percent of all cars sold for the month.