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    Strong early consumer demand for fully electric Volvo XC40 Recharge P8 AWD

    Volvo Cars has now formally opened order books for the XC40 Recharge P8 AWD, the company’s first fully electric car based on the best-selling SUV, in selected markets.   Tens of thousands of consumers have shown keen interest in the all-electric XC40 and the company already received several thousands of firm orders even before the formal start of sales. Production and the first customer deliveries of the XC40 Recharge P8 are scheduled to begin later this year.   The initial order intake is the latest proof of strong demand for Volvo Cars’ Recharge car line, the name for all

    Volvo Cars to implement blockchain traceability of cobalt used in electric car batteries

    Volvo Cars will become the first carmaker to implement global traceability of cobalt used in its batteries by applying blockchain technology. The announcement follows the reveal last month of the company’s first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge.   Traceability of raw materials used in the production of lithium ion batteries, such as cobalt, is one of the main sustainability challenges faced by car makers. Volvo Cars is committed to full traceability, ensuring that customers can drive electrified Volvos knowing the material for the batteries has been sourced responsibly.

    Volvo Cars launches fully electric Volvo XC40 Recharge as part of new electrified car line

    Future Volvo customers will need to answer one fundamental question: do you want a new Volvo with a cord or without one? Today Volvo Cars introduces the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first ever fully electric car and the first model to appear in its brand new Recharge car line concept.   The XC40 Recharge, based on the multi-award-winning and best-selling XC40 small SUV, is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos. It represents a true milestone for Volvo Cars: the company’s first electric car and the first Volvo with a brand new infotainment system powered by Google’s Android

    Volvo Cars to radically reduce carbon emissions as part of new ambitious climate plan

    Volvo Cars today launches one of the most ambitious plans in the automotive industry, aiming to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40 per cent between 2018 and 2025. This is the first, tangible step towards Volvo Cars’ ambition of becoming a climate neutral company by 2040.   The plan represents concrete actions in line with the global Paris climate agreement of 2015, which seeks to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.   Volvo Cars’ 2040 ambitions go beyond addressing tailpipe emissions through all-out electrification, another

    Volvo Car Group - Invitation to Volvo Cars Moment

    Volvo Cars invites you take part of the reveal of its first fully electric car; the electric XC40. At this event, Volvo Cars will also present the company’s strategic direction towards a more sustainable future.   For the second time this year, we take a moment to focus on a topic of great importance to us. Following our Safety Moment earlier this year, we now shift our focus to Sustainability.     Speakers Håkan Samuelsson, President and CEO, Volvo Car Group Henrik Green, Chief Technology Officer  Björn Annwall, Head of the EMEA region and Global Commercial Operations

    Fully electric Volvo XC40 introduces brand new infotainment system powered by Android with Google technologies built-in

    Volvo Cars is fundamentally rethinking infotainment in the forthcoming fully electric Volvo XC40. Powered by Android, the new infotainment system offers customers unprecedented personalisation, improved levels of intuitiveness and new embedded Google technology and services.   Volvo Car Group is the first company to team up with Google on integrating an infotainment system powered by Android, with the Google Assistant, Google Maps and the Google Play Store built-in. The two companies have been development partners for the past several years.   The new system offers full

    Fully electric Volvo XC40 SUV heralds new electric future and does more with less

    Sometimes less really is more: the forthcoming battery-powered Volvo XC40 SUV, Volvo Cars’ first fully electric car, proves that Volvo cars can be made better by taking certain things away.   The advance of electric cars constitutes the biggest change in the history of the automobile. For the first time in over a century, cars move without a petrol or diesel engine in the engine bay and have a battery in the floor, changing the car at its core.   It also means cars no longer need tailpipes or a large grille for cooling purposes, while the removal of an internal combustion engine

    The fully electric XC40 SUV – Volvo’s first electric car and one of the safest on the road

    The advance of electric cars constitutes the biggest change in the history of the automobile. For the first time in over a century, cars move without a petrol or diesel engine in the engine bay and have a battery in the floor, changing the car at its core.   With the introduction of the forthcoming fully electric Volvo XC40 SUV next month, Volvo Cars is not just launching its first fully electric car – in true Volvo tradition, it is also introducing one of the safest cars on the road, despite a fresh set of challenges presented by the absence of an internal combustion engine.   “

    Volvo Cars introduces refreshed Volvo XC90 SUV

    Volvo Cars introduces refreshed Volvo XC90 SUV   Volvo Cars has today unveiled a refreshed version of its best-selling XC90 large SUV, the company’s top-of-the-line flagship, adding a newly-developed fuel-saving engine option that marks the next step in the company’s ambitious electrification strategy.   The refreshed XC90 for the first time offers customers Volvo’s advanced kinetic energy recovery braking system, which is coupled with its existing internal combustion engines to create a new integrated electrified powertrain, under its new ‘B’ badge.     This new

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