Climate Fully Electric Sweden 
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 19, 2022
This incredible motor car, conceived from the very beginning as our first fully-electric model, is silent, powerful and demonstrates how perfectly Rolls-Royce is suited to electrification. The ability to tailor the Architecture of Luxury for electric drive was a fundamental consideration when it was first conceived.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 8, 2020
The 100% renewable electricity mix in Chengdu is the result of a newly signed supply contract and will reduce the plant’s CO 2 emissions by more than 11,000 tonnes per year. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company. These and other measures are part of the climate plan Volvo Cars launched late last year.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 17, 2021
As part of the collaboration, Volvo Cars will be the first car maker to secure SSAB steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron from HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå, Sweden. Volvo Cars’ ambition is to be a fully electric car brand by 2030, with only pure electric cars in its line-up. Source: HYBRIT.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The cooperation includes exclusive, worldwide first pilot tests of a fully electric Volvo FH truck with gross combination weights up to 60 tons. Starting in March, the truck will operate between two DHL Freight logistics terminals in Sweden, a distance of approximately 150 km (93 miles). —Uwe Brinks, CEO at DHL Freight.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 13, 2022
The Polestar 1 was built between 2019 and 2021 as a low-volume electric performance hybrid GT with a carbon fiber body, 609 hp, 1,000 N·m and an electric-only range of 124 km (WLTP)—the longest of any hybrid car in the world. The first permanent Polestar Destination opened in December 2021, outside Gothenburg, Sweden.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 22, 2021
Volvo Car Group intends to establish a joint venture with Swedish battery company Northvolt to develop and produce more sustainable batteries, tailored to power the next generation of pure electric Volvo and Polestar cars. It also represents an important step in the expansion of Volvo Car Group’s in-house development competence.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
Volvo Cars and Northvolt have selected Gothenburg, Sweden to establish a new battery manufacturing plant which will commence operations in 2025, and complement the planned R&D center that both companies announced in December as part of an investment of approximately SEK 30 billion (US$3.3 Earlier post.).
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