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Volvo XC60
Automotive
1 min read

Volvo Car India Announces Lifetime Parts Warranty Scheme

Volvo Car India announced a new “customer lifetime parts warranty” scheme across its model range. Under the new scheme, parts bought after the standard period of warranty and installed at an authorized workshop will carry a lifetime warranty and will be…

Volvo XC40 T4 R Design 1200
Automotive
2 min read

Volvo Cars To Go Leather-Free In All Pure Electric

Volvo Cars is taking an ethical stand for animal welfare in its fully electric cars. Starting with the new C40 Recharge, all-new fully electric Volvo models will be completely leather-free. In the coming years, Volvo Cars will launch a completely new family…

Volvo OS
Automotive
2 min read

Volvo’s Global Sales Down By 10% In August

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 45,786 cars in August, down 10.6 percent compared with the same period last year. Overall underlying demand in the car industry and for Volvo Cars’ products remained very robust. Since mid-July, supplier shut-downs due to…

Volvo XC60
Automotive
1 min read

Chip Shortage Prompts Production Halt At Volvo Cars In Gothenburg

Volvo Cars, owned by China’s Geely Holding, will temporarily stop production at its Swedish plant in Gothenburg due to the shortage of semiconductor chips, it said on Wednesday. A global chip shortage has hit manufacturing, with automakers cutting down on…

Volvo OS
Automotive
2 min read

Volvo And Google Extend Partnership For VolvoCars.OS

Volvo and Google have announced that they are extending their partnership for Android Automotive which will not hook into a new user experience that the Swedish brand is developing called VolvoCars.OS. VolvoCars.OS uses an assortment of operating systems be…

Volvo XC40 T4 R Design 1200
Automotive
1 min read

Volvo Cars India To Set Up Digital Technology Hub In Bengaluru

Volvo Car India announced that it is expanding its Digital Technology Hub at Bangalore which will help strengthen its digital presence in India. The company has appointed Jonas Olsson as the Head of Digital Technology Hub with effect from June, 1 2021. Olsson…

Volvo Batu Pahat 3S 12
Automotive
2 min read

Volvo’s Global Sales Increase By 97.3% In April

Volvo Cars achieved its 10th consecutive month of sales growth, as the company’s global sales increased by 97.5 percent in April compared with the same month last year. In April, Volvo Cars sold a total of 62,724 cars, up from 31,760 cars in the same period…

Volvo XC40 T4 R Design 1200
Automotive
1 min read

Volvo To Produce Only Electric Vehicles By 2030

Chinese-owned Swedish automaker Volvo said Tuesday it will produce only electric vehicles by 2030 and sell them all exclusively online. Volvo is among a growing crop of companies planning to ditch fossil fuel vehicles in the next few years, as demand for…

Volvo XC40 T4 R Design 1200
Automotive
4 min read

China’s Geely Sets Out To Become A Force In Electric Cars

Like many others in his industry, Geely Chairman Li Shufu has been irked by skyrocketing valuations for electric car manufacturers such as Tesla Inc and Nio Inc, sources at the Chinese automaker say. Getting Geely, which owns Volvo Cars and 9.7% of Daimler…

Volvo XC40 T4 R Design 1200
Automotive
1 min read

Volvo Cars To Produce Electric Motors In Skovde, Sweden

Volvo Cars will assemble electric motors at its powertrain plant in Skovde, Sweden, and plans to establish complete in-house e-motor production by 2025. It will invest 700 million SEK to this end in the coming years. The company is committed to becoming a…

Volvo XC60
Automotive
2 min read

New-Gen Volvo S60 Sedan To Be Unveiled This Month

The new-generation Volvo S60 sedan will be unveiled in India on November 27, 2020. Of course, given the current situation with the pandemic, the car will be revealed via a digital event, while the official launch will take place in the first quarter (Q1) of…

Volvo XC90 Armoured
Automotive
2 min read

Volvo Cars Drops New Cars From 30 Metres. Here’s Why

Volvo Cars, in what can only be described as the most extreme crash test yet, is dropping all-new cars from a height of 30 meters. It’s all research though and this extreme test will allow rescue services to prepare for any possible crash scenario and to…