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Volvo names regional winners
- 13/05/2021
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Volvo has announced the regional winners of its Bodyshop & Retailer High Achiever Recognition Awards 2021. The awards are designed to recognise the efforts of those bodyshops and retailers that deliver consistently against key activity that support the fundamental elements of the company’s body and paint [...] -
Volvo invests in automotive sensor company
- 18/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, has completed the first strategic investment via its newly-founded investment fund by taking a stake in Luminar, a leading start-up in the development of advanced sensor technology for use in autonomous vehicles. The investment in Luminar, based in Palo Alto, California, and [...] -
Volvo steps up recycling
- 18/06/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volvo Cars, the premium car maker, today announced its ambition that from 2025 at least 25 per cent of the plastics used in every newly launched Volvo car will be made from recycled material. Volvo Cars also urged auto industry suppliers to work more closely with car makers to develop next-generation components [...] -
Volvo launches UK ambition
- 27/04/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Categories: Magazine, News
Volvo Cars, is to begin the UK's most ambitious autonomous driving trial next year to speed up the introduction of a technology that promises to massively reduce car accidents as well as free up congested roads and save drivers valuable time. The Swedish company, whose name has been synonymous with automotive [...] -
Volvo announces record sales month
- 02/12/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volvo Cars reports that November was its best sales month in its 88-year history. Volvo posted a 26% increase in retail sales for the month of November, selling 49,055 cars globally, which represents a new all-time high result for a single month. In the medium term, Volvo is targeting annual sales of 800,000 cars [...] -
Under construction – Engineering
- 20/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Magazine
We speak with those in the know about vehicle construction and the challenges that advanced, lightweight, multi-material usage poses for repair technicians. The technology and materials involved in vehicle construction has changed drastically in recent years, with lightweight, multi-material usage vehicles becoming [...] -
Volvo partners with Microsoft
- 20/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volvo will work together with Microsoft to jointly develop next-generation automotive technologies. The two companies today revealed how Microsoft HoloLens, the world’s first fully untethered holographic computer, might be used in future to redefine how customers first encounter and explore a car, as well as how [...] -
Volvo unveils Concept 26
- 19/11/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volvo Cars’ ongoing research into autonomous driving has confirmed what we all know - that the daily commute is taking the joy out of driving. It is during the commute and on long motorway trips that people are most willing to delegate the act of driving to their car. With this in mind, Volvo has developed [...] -
Volvo Cars UK launches Lifepaint
- 21/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volvo will this weekend launch its highly successful Volvo Cars LifePaint product - a reflective spray aimed at increasing the visibility and safety of cyclists on the road. It will be available in participating Volvo dealers from 24 October in time for darker nights when the clocks go back. The unique [...] -
Volvo unveils global electrification strategy
- 15/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volvo has announced one of the automotive industry’s most comprehensive electrification strategies in which plug-in hybrids will be introduced across its entire range. It will develop an entirely new range of electrified smaller cars and build a fully electric car for sale by 2019. As part of this new strategy, [...]