Tag: Volvo
Volvo To Expand Heavily By 2020
Currently, Volvo Car Corporation has around 24,000 employees globally. On average, the company sells between 374,000 to 440,000 vehicles but by 2020, those figures...
Volvo To Bring The C30 Electric To China
The automobile market inside China is becoming larger each and every day. Sales are booming and many manufactures are either building Chinese-specific vehicles and...
Peter Horbury Leaves Volvo for Geely
For the past twenty years, Peter Horbury has had a professional relationship with Volvo Car Corporation. Starting out as head of design in 1991, Horbury moved around the...
Volvo Gets Ready To Sell Its V60 Plug-in
When 2012 hits, Volvo will begin selling its all-new V60 Plug-in Hybrid. This ultra low emissions vehicle has been developed by Vattenfall AB and Volvo and...
Volvo to Close its Pininfarina Plant
Since 2005, Volvo Cars Corporation has been building vehicles at Pininfarina Sverige AB's Uddevalla plant due to a joint venture between the two companies. Some of the...
Volvo’s Next Large Car Could be Inside the Concept You
Revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show could be the basis for Volvo's next big car. Picking up where the Concept Universe left off, the...
Volvo Partners With Siemens to Build EV Technology
Volvo Car Corporation announced a joint partnership with Siemens Industry to technology behind electric vehicles, including the upcoming Volvo C30 Electric. The two companies want...
Volvo Installs Start/Stop Feature on Its Automatics
Starting in early September of this year, Volvo cars will make the fuel-saving start/stop feature available on vehicles using the six speed automatic and...
Volvo Developes ‘Range Extenders’ For Electric Cars
It would appear that as of late, electric vehicles are stealing the automotive industry's spotlight. They may be zero emissions, but the electic car's...
Volvo Wins J.D. Power Awards in Germany
The customer satisfaction outfit for consumer products, J.D. Power Associates recently awarded Volvo in a surprising market. In Germany, vehicles from Japan, the United...