Swedish carmaker Volvo Car is planning to invest in Sweden for the development of scalable product architecture(SPA)and Volvo engine architecture(VEA),which is claimed to be one of the country's largest ever industrial investments. ...
Volvo Buses is planning to close its manufacturing plant in Saffle, Sweden at the end of June 2013 and focus producing vehicles in its main plant in Wroclaw Poland. The company said that its decision to focus bus production in Poland ...
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Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Car Group has confirmed its plans to cut production at Torslanda facility in Hisingen and Ghent facility in Belgium. The Torslanda plant will have three production-free days in week 51, before the ...
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Swedish truck maker Volvo has signed a deal to increase its stake in German engine manufacturer Deutz, from the current 6.7% to about 25%, by acquiring a total of 22.12 million shares from Same Deutz-Fahr Group. Volvo will pay EUR5.88 per ...
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Swedish truck maker Volvo Trucks has unveiled a new six-cylinder 13-litre (D13) 460hp engine for the company's FH range of heavy trucks, which complies with Euro 6 environmental standards. The new engine offers maximum power output of ...
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Volvo Penta will supply engines for a number of airport fire-fighting vehicles from the company Rosenbauer. As per the new agreement, Volvo will deliver more than 100 16-liter diesel engines per year which will be fitted into such ...
Volvo has expanded its range of diesel engines lineup in the European market with the launch of a new entry-level five-cylinder 2.0-liter turbocharged engine for its V60, V70, S80 and S60 models. The new D3 diesel engine can be mated to ...
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The global platform based truck production is expected to reach 612,000 units by 2018, nearly doubling the levels of production recorded in 2011, according to a new report. Frost & Sullivan's 'Strategic Analysis of Platform Strategies of ...
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Swedish truck maker Volvo is planning to launch a 13-liter liquefied natural gas (LNG) engine within the Volvo brand for the trucks in North America by 2014. The new engine, when combined with the company's compressed natural gas ...
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Swedish bus, truck and construction equipment manufacturer AB Volvo has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with MAPE to sell its crankshaft plant located in Leganes, Spain, as a part of restructuring and cost-cutting plan. The LOI includes ...
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Commercial Vehicle Group's Indian subsidiary CVG Seat has acquired all the seat assembly assets of Vijayjyot Seats for $13.7m. The transaction also includes an additional earn-out potential of about $1.9m based on earnings before ...
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UK based automotive firm GKN has invested over GBP12m in its Birmingham and Telford facilities. In Birmingham, GKN Driveline supports UK-based automotive firms that include Jaguar Land Rover, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Bentley and Lotus. ...
Global automotive embedded telematics market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32.8% over 2011-2015, according to a new report. According to TechNavio's report, "Global Automotive Embedded Telematics Market ...
Volvo has delivered 36 Euro 5 B7RLE buses with Wrightbus Eclipse 2 bodywork to Go South Coast, a unit of the Go Ahead Group, to be used under the Wilts & Dorset brand. All the new low emission buses are built at the Wrightbus factory in ...
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Swedish carmaker Volvo car has selected Mitsubishi Electric to develop next-generation automotive infotainment systems for all its vehicles launched from November 2013. Since 1969, Mitsubishi Electric has been supplying the Swedish ...
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