Volvo: Changes in Volvo's Group Management
Mar 3, 2013
Niklas Gustavsson has been appointed Executive Vice President Public & Environmental Affairs and member of the Volvo Group Executive Team. He will assume his duties on April 1, 2013 and will succeed Jan-Eric Sundgren, who was appointed Senior Expert Adviser to the CEO and senior management. Niklas Gustavsson, born 1971 ... Continue reading
Volvo Cars Makes Driving At Night Safer And More Comfortable With Innovative, Permanent High Beam
Feb 27, 2013
The new Volvo S60, V60 and XC60 - shown to the public for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show - can be fitted with an innovation that makes driving in the dark safer and more comfortable. ... Continue reading
Hey Mac What's Up? - New-Model Surge Speeds 2014 Rollout
Feb 26, 2013
from Mac Gordon 02-25-2013 An almost unprecedented mid-model-year product surge is shaping up in 2013, promising to speed up reveals of 2014 models and accelerate leasing ratios to near-record rates. Emerging from the Chicago, Milwaukee and Cleveland auto shows, the industry is pressing dealers to spur early returns of ... Continue reading
Volvo Cars And Geely Cooperate In New R&D Centre In Gothenburg, Sweden
Feb 21, 2013
Geely Holding, majority owner of Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo Cars) and Geely, will establish a Research and Development Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden ... Continue reading
Geely and Volvo Cars Cooperate in New R&D Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden
Feb 20, 2013
Geely Holding, majority owner of Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo Cars) and Geely Auto, will establish a Research and Development Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Centre will develop a new modular architecture and set of components for future C-segment cars, addressing the needs of both Volvo Cars and Geely. The Centre wi ... Continue reading
All-New Volvo V40 - World-First Pedestrian Airbag Technology
Feb 19, 2013
In China 25 percent of traffic fatalities are pedestrians. In Europe the figure is 14 percent and in the USA 12 percent. Far larger numbers of pedestrians are injured. ... Continue reading
Record-Breaking Safety Rating for All-New Volvo V40
Feb 19, 2013
The All-New Volvo V40 has received the top rating of five stars in the Euro NCAP collision test. The overall result is the best ever recorded by the institute. ... Continue reading
Volvo Group invests in DriveCam
Feb 13, 2013
Volvo Group Venture Capital, a subsidiary to the Volvo Group, today announced that Volvo has made a strategic investment in DriveCam. The two companies have joined forces with the objective of delivering innovative safety-centric solutions to the global commercial vehicle industry. ... Continue reading
Jan 26, 2013
'With DFG as a partner, we can improve our position in the increasingly important Chinese market and become more internationally competitive by virtue of the Chinese volumes.'Â ... Continue reading
A New Look With Added Features For Volvo's Award Winning On Call Smartphone Application
Jan 25, 2013
Volvo's award-winning mobile app, Volvo On Call, has been further enhanced for 2013 with a new design, extra features and added vehicle connectivity. ... Continue reading
Volvo: Invitation to Press and Tele Conference in Stockholm
Jan 23, 2013
Regulatory News: AB Volvo hereby invites the media to a press conference on February 6 2013 in conjunction with the release of the Volvo Group full year report for 2012. The press conference will take place 09:00 at Taƒandstickspalatset in Stockholm. Press conference, 09:00 AM CET The press conference will begin at 09 ... Continue reading
2013 NAIAS The Most Important Auto Show Of All - Wrap Up +VIDEO
Jan 21, 2013
By Steve Purdy and Thom Cannell The Auto Channel Michigan Bureau The Detroit auto show is not the oldest. That honor goes to either New York or Chicago, depending on which promoter you believe. And, it’s not the biggest. Chicago has way more square footage and draws more visitors. But there is no question that our ... Continue reading
Jan 18, 2013
'Based on VCC's interaction concept, and through an agile approach between Volvo Cars and Cybercom, we have succeeded in developing applications and a graphical user interface in significantly less time and with a smaller budget than would have been possible with a traditional approach' ... Continue reading
Safety Beyond Stars: Record-Breaking All-New Volvo V40 Impresses ANCAP
Jan 18, 2013
The All-New Volvo V40 has been awarded the maximum five-star safety rating by ANCAP (the Australasian New Car Assessment Program), further reinforcing its recent best-ever overall result in the Euro NCAP rating. ... Continue reading
Volvo Scholarship for the Development of Eco-Friendly Transportation
Jan 9, 2013
Regulatory News: 'Based on Denbratt's highly substantial significance to the development of eco-friendly transportation, which has also been of particular benefit to the Swedish automotive industry, I believe that Ingemar Denbratt is a highly deserving and appropriate recipient of the Hafaykan Frisinger scholarship for ... Continue reading
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