In a somewhat ironic twist as we’re seeing the importation of some of the first China-built models from Buick and Volvo to the U.S. market comes a report from Automotive News that General Motors is planning on selling a limited number ...
Tags: Colorado Trucks, Buick, Volvo
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Volvo Car have signed a five-year loan agreement of SEK1bn (EUR102m) to finance the next phase of the company's R&D program. The loan will support financing for the development of new modular ...
Tags: Volvo Cars, R&D programme
Volvo Cars has unveiled several important updates to its 90 series cars, delivering new safety, powertrain and connectivity updates. The Swedish carmaker’s smartphone integration offer, which already includes Apple CarPlay, will now ...
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INRIX Traffic will be integrated globally into the V40, V40 Cross Country, S60, V60 and XC60. INRIX real-time traffic is already available worldwide across the 90-series vehicle lineup. Starting this month, Volvo Cars around the world ...
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Volvo Cars has unveiled a new manufacturing strategy for China in which production capacity will be increased. China will be developed into a global manufacturing and export hub servicing growing demand for the company's new range of cars ...
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Volvo is gearing up for a driverless car trial involving 100 cars that will be unmarked due to fears that motorists will bully the vehicles. The trial is set to get underway in 2018 in London, and will use versions of the Swedish ...
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More domestic car brands have demonstrated their eagerness for recognition as premium, although none of the Chinese peer group have yet revealed a strategy that will lead them to the top. Although there are previous failures that serve as ...
Tags: Geely, Automakers
On September 22, China leading commercial vehicle company, Dongfeng launched and held promotion event in Vietnam. This time, Dongfeng introduced six new vehicle models covered mid and long-haul transportation and construction vehicles, and ...
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Swedish automaker, Volvo has started, Drive Me, a public autonomous driving experiment in the city of Gothenburg. The autonomous Volvo XC90 SUV was finalized in Volvo Cars’ special manufacturing facility in Torslanda and is the ...
NVIDIA has introduced its newest system on chip (SoC) to power next generation autonomous vehicles at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California. Speaking at the conference, we revealed the architecture and underlying technology of ...
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Volvo Cars and ride-hailing company Uber are joining forces for the development of next generation autonomous driving cars. As part of the deal, the companies will start a project that will develop new base vehicles, which can be ...
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Volvo Cars is the next automaker to join The Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Auto-ISAC) as the latest original equipment manufacturer member. Volvo Cars Group chief information officer and senior vice president Klas ...
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Increased global demand for hybrid electric all wheel drive has helped GKN Driveline's electric axle achieve landmark production figure of 300,000 units. The units of the industry's most successful eAxle range have now come off the ...
Volvo Cars has commenced production of the new V90 premium estate at its Swedish manufacturing facility in Torslanda. The production of the all new V90 is taking place after four months since its official unveiling. The first ...
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Taiwan’s overall light-vehicle sales increased to 37,878 units in May from 34,953 units in April (photo courtesy of UDN.com).Compared to Taiwan's anemic economic growth, the local light vehicle market has still expanded at solid pace ...
Tags: light-vehicle, economic growth