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Volvo EX30 receives the distinguished Red Dot ‘Best of the Best’ Design Award

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The Volvo EX30 small SUV has been honored with the distinguished Red Dot award: Best of the Best Product Design 2024. 

The award recognises excellence in design primarily based on 4 fundamental rules of fine design: the standard of perform, the standard of seduction, the standard of use, and the standard of duty. The jury of 39 consultants from all around the world chosen the EX30 because the winner in a aggressive area with a complete rating of 93/100.

“The Volvo EX30 embodies Volvo Cars’ design values in a smaller format and is a showcase in premium Scandinavian design where form follows function,” says Jim Rowan, CEO at Volvo Cars. “The EX30 shows the lowest carbon footprint of any fully electric Volvo car to date and is designed to be as safe as you’d expect from a Volvo car. It is packed with cutting-edge technology and is a perfect fit for today’s market as a growing number of car buyers switch to electric cars.”  
 

The EX30 contains a lengthy wheelbase, massive wheels and equal overhangs, bringing steadiness and refinement to the outside. The use of pure and recycled supplies within the automotive serves as a step in the direction of our sustainability targets. Additionally, we utilised the area within the absolutely electrical EX30 and created a centralised theme for every thing from storage to controls and the touchscreen, leading to a versatile area with premium proportions.

A multi-awarded automotive 

The EX30 was revealed final summer season and has already gained greater than 20 main awards, together with the distinguished Car Design award 2024, established in 1984 by Auto & Design journal. It has additionally been awarded The Sun Car of the Year, World Urban Car from the World Car Awards, the Small SUV/Crossover of the Year from The Sunday Times, and the Eco Warrior of the Year award from Top Gear.  

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Volvo For Life Fund launches with a mission to enhance one million lives

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Volvo Cars at the moment launches a brand new philanthropic fund with the ambition to positively influence one million lives over time by assist initiatives within the communities wherein we function.

 

The Volvo For Life Fund will focus initially on social and environmental initiatives that centre round empowering individuals, restoring and preserving our planet, and offering safety when pure disasters strike.

 

By working along with world and native companions, and channelling the engagement of communities and our staff, the Volvo For Life Fund continues our heritage of care and security.

 

“We have a long history of social, environmental and community engagement, and I’m proud that we continue this tradition through the launch of the Volvo For Life Fund,” says Jim Rowan, Chief Executive of Volvo Cars. “It will enable us to work alongside expert global and local partners to address global challenges close to our company’s values, and help create lasting, positive change.”

 

People, the planet and safety
The Volvo For Life Fund might be organised into three focus areas, themed round individuals, the planet and safety. Guided by native voices and insights, and delivered by trusted companions, most of the fund’s initiatives might be tailor-made to handle the challenges of the completely different communities wherein we function.

 

For individuals, we need to assist create safer, extra empowered and socially cell environments in marginalised communities. We will give attention to creating and growing academic and socio-economic alternatives for younger individuals and youngsters.

 

For our planet, we are going to put money into native and world tasks devoted to the restoration and preservation of pure ecosystems and biodiversity, and supporting the struggle towards local weather change. There might be an preliminary emphasis on reforestation and ocean well being, in addition to group engagement.

 

For safety, we are going to assist emergency response and reduction efforts that assist to fulfill speedy humanitarian wants when pure disasters happen in international locations linked to our worth chain. We will even assist longer-term work to make sure that schooling and studying stay a precedence even when pure disasters strike.

 

The first partnerships
Our fund’s first companions are Girls Who Code, One Tree Planted and Save the Children, every related to considered one of our focus areas.

 

Our partnership with Girls Who Code will assist tackle the present underrepresentation of girls in pc science and software program engineering roles, with the ambition to equip younger girls with the coding expertise and confidence essential to excel on this subject.

 

In our work with One Tree Planted, we assist reforestation and concrete tree planting tasks in seven international locations throughout 5 continents, with the purpose to plant greater than half one million bushes and restore greater than 450 hectares of land annually.

 

By partnering with Save the Children, we assist construct the resilience of academic methods in international locations susceptible to pure disasters, present momentary studying areas in emergency conditions and be sure that youngsters can return safely again to studying after an emergency – all to assist safeguard and maintain youngsters’s schooling.

 

Volvo Cars has at all times had a give attention to security, and considered one of our most vital contributions is the trendy three-point security belt. Since we launched it in 1959, and later granted free use of its design, the security belt is estimated* to have saved one million lives. That’s why we now purpose to enhance one million lives with the Volvo For Life Fund.

 

With this fund, we recognise its modest measurement and prioritise steady studying and improvement. We respect the ability of well-designed small-scale initiatives, whether or not they’re native or world in scope. Our method emphasises progress one step at a time, understanding the significance of each contribution inside the broader context of optimistic change.

 

We will monitor our influence by way of our companions and embody programme-specific targets that measure our contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

 

“At Volvo Cars, our goal is clear: to create scalable, long-term impact, just like we did when we shared the three-point safety belt for all to use,” says Jim Rowan. “We know we can make real change – every action counts, big or small, because it brings us closer to a safer world.”

 

The small print
*Based on normal and in-house statistics on accidents and belt utilization.

 

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Volvo Cars makes use of biogas to realize its first climate-neutral plant in China

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Our Taizhou manufacturing plant has switched to biogas, making it our first plant in China to obtain climate-neutral standing. The plant’s swap from pure fuel will end in a discount of greater than 7,000 tonnes of 2 per yr.


Despite being a small share of our whole Scope 1-3 emissions of million tonnes, securing climate-neutral vitality for our Taizhou plant is an necessary step in direction of our aim of having local weather–impartial manufacturing operations by 2025 and lowering emissions throughout our international operations. This ambition is additionally a part of our broader purpose to succeed in web zero greenhouse fuel emissions by 2040.


Just like all our manufacturing crops worldwide, the Taizhou plant already used climate-neutral electrical energy, and this newest transfer makes positive that it additionally has climate-neutral heating. It’s our second automotive plant globally to turn into local weather–impartial after our Torslanda facility in Gothenburg, Sweden.


“We’re acting fast when viable climate-neutral energy alternatives become available,” says Javier Varela, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO at Volvo Cars. “The switch to biogas at our Taizhou plant demonstrates how each of our manufacturing locations across the globe is developing its own climate-neutral energy mix, based on what’s available in the region.”


Our Taizhou plant’s vitality provide includes of electrical energy and heating. It produces round 40 per cent of its electrical energy want from on-site photo voltaic panels – a share that’s set to broaden within the coming years. The remaining 60 per cent, which comes from the grid, can be climate-neutral electrical energy from solar. Its heating want is, with this newest swap, met by utilizing climate-neutral biogas. 


Volvo Cars recently expanded our sustainability strategy with new bold objectives for the approaching years. Our new purpose to succeed in zero greenhouse fuel emissions by 2040 builds on our previous ambition of being local weather impartial by 2040. It clarifies that our first priority is to cut back actual emissions earlier than turning to carbon removals to mitigate any unavoidable emissions. We are additionally encouraging our suppliers to do the identical.


Since the discharge of our firm’s first sustainability technique in 2019, we now have made good progress in direction of our local weather motion targets. On high of lowering CO2 emissions from our whole operations by utilizing 74 per cent local weather–impartial vitality, we’re additionally progressing properly in direction of our 2 goals.  

Volvo Cars in 2023
For the total yr 2023, Volvo Car Group recorded a record-breaking core working revenue of SEK 25.6 billion. Revenue in 2023 amounted to an all-time excessive of SEK 399.3 billion, whereas international gross sales reached a file 708,716 automobiles.

About Volvo Car Group
Volvo Cars was based in 1927. Today, it is without doubt one of the most well-known and revered automotive manufacturers on this planet with gross sales to clients in additional than 100 international locations. Volvo Cars is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm change, the place it’s traded underneath the ticker “VOLCAR B”.

“For life. To give people the freedom to move in a personal, sustainable and safe way.” This goal is mirrored in Volvo Cars’ ambition to turn into a completely electrical automotive maker by 2030 and in its dedication to an ongoing discount of its carbon footprint, with the ambition to be a climate-neutral firm by 2040.

As of December 2023, Volvo Cars employed roughly 43,400 full-time workers. Volvo Cars’ head workplace, product growth, advertising and marketing and administration capabilities are primarily positioned in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Cars’ manufacturing crops are positioned in Gothenburg, Ghent (Belgium), South Carolina (US), Chengdu, Daqing and Taizhou (China). The firm additionally has R&D and design centres in Gothenburg and Shanghai (China).

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Updated Volvo Cars mannequin vary now on sale within the UK, together with new long-range totally electrical EC40 and EX40 variations

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•    Volvo continues progress in the direction of totally electrical future with uniform naming launched throughout its UK mannequin vary

•    Fully electrical C40 Recharge and XC40 Recharge align with different fashions to change into the EC40 and EX40 respectively

•    Both vehicles obtainable with new Single Motor Extended Range powertrain, providing driving vary of as much as 346 miles for EC40 and 343 miles for EX40

•    Forthcoming software program improve for EC40 and EX40 Twin Motor variations, growing energy by 34hp and including new Performance drive mode

•    B5 mild-hybrid petrol engine in XC60 and XC90 now extra environment friendly

Volvo Cars’ progress in the direction of turning into a totally electrical automobile model marks one other milestone this spring with naming modifications that create consistency throughout the UK mannequin line-up. At the identical time, new and revised powertrain choices can be found.

The updates (formally for Volvo’s 2025-model-year vehicles, that are on sale now) are led by the totally electrical C40 Recharge crossover and XC40 Recharge SUV being rebranded because the EC40 and EX40 respectively, bringing their naming consistent with their EV stablemates, the EX30 and EX90 SUVs. The XC40 title stays in place for the mild-hybrid petrol variations.

Beyond the title change, the EC40 and EX40 are supplied with a brand new Single Motor Extended Range powertrain. Available along with the established rear-wheel-drive Single Motor and all-wheel-drive Twin Motor choices, this gives a better driving vary – as much as 346 miles within the EC40 and 343 miles within the EX40. It has a 78kWh battery (with 75kWh usable capability) and a 252hp electrical motor on the rear axle that produces 420Nm of torque. The most charging pace for replenishing the battery is 140kW.

Meanwhile, an non-compulsory Performance software program improve will probably be obtainable, which will increase most output within the EC40 and EX40 Twin Motor variations from 408hp to 442hp. Owners may even get pleasure from faster acceleration response courtesy of revised pedal mapping and the addition of a brand new Performance mode that unlocks the elevated energy. This software program improve may even be obtainable to present homeowners of previous-model-year (so-called 2024-model-year) C40 and XC40 Recharge vehicles. UK timing and pricing particulars will probably be introduced in the end.

Volvo can be simplifying its value construction, with like-for-like on-the-road costs for the EC40 and EX40 Plus and Ultra fashions (the EX40 can be obtainable in entry-level Core grade).

Visually, the EC40 is distinguished by a distinction black roof, normal throughout all variations. A brand new Sand Dune exterior color possibility has additionally been launched to the EC40, EX40 and XC40 fashions.

Another change reflecting the progress of Volvo’s electrification programme is the deletion of the Recharge title from all plug-in hybrid fashions. Additionally, the Ultimate trim stage has been modified to Ultra, throughout all fashions, whereas the Ultra specification of the XC60 and XC90 is now obtainable with a heated windscreen as a no-cost possibility (if chosen, this replaces the standard-fit head-up show).

The unfold of Volvo’s electrified automobile manufacturing capabilities signifies that XC60 plug-in hybrids for the UK market at the moment are manufactured in Sweden reasonably than China. The XC60 plug-in hybrid line-up has additionally gained an entry-level Core model, bringing the beginning value for the PHEV mannequin down by greater than £4,000.

Elsewhere within the Volvo Cars vary, technical changes have been made to the B5 mild-hybrid petrol engine featured within the XC60 and XC90 SUVs. Adopting a brand new combustion cycle has improved gasoline financial system and lowered CO2 emissions – by as much as 4% within the mid-size XC60 and a pair of% within the bigger XC90.

The up to date Volvo fashions are on sale now, with first buyer deliveries anticipated in the summertime. For extra info and to make use of the net configurator, please go to www.volvocars.co.uk

UK EC40 on-the-road pricing

EC40 Single Motor Plus – £52,555 

EC40 Single Motor Extended Range Plus – £54,305

EC40 Twin Motor Plus – £57,805

EC40 Single Motor Extended Range Ultra – £58,355

EC40 Twin Motor Ultra – £61,855

UK EX40 on-the-road pricing

EX40 Single Motor Core – £45,955

EX40 Single Motor Extended Range Core – £47,705

EX40 Single Motor Plus – £52,555 

EX40 Single Motor Extended Range Plus – £54,305

EX40 Twin Motor Plus – £57,805

EX40 Single Motor Extended Range Ultra – £58,355

EX40 Twin Motor Ultra – £61,855

The small print

•    Range based on the WLTP driving cycle beneath managed circumstances for a brand new automobile. Real‐world vary could fluctuate. Figures are primarily based on preliminary goal. Final automobile certification pending.

•    CO2 and gasoline financial system based on the WLTP driving cycle beneath managed circumstances for a brand new automobile. Real-world gasoline financial system could fluctuate. Figures are primarily based on preliminary goal. Final automobile certification pending.

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Volvo Cars achieves month-to-month gross sales document in March

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Volvo Cars reviews gross sales of 78,970 vehicles in March, a rise of 25 per cent in contrast with the identical month final 12 months, and an all-time excessive for world gross sales throughout a single month. Volvo Cars’ new totally electrical small SUV, the EX30, contributed to the gross sales progress, in addition to a robust gross sales efficiency in Europe and the US. 

Volvo Cars’ line-up of electrified fashions, with a completely electrical or plug-in hybrid powertrain, grew by 24 per cent in contrast with the identical interval final 12 months, leading to 33,558 vehicles offered, which makes up a 42 per cent share of all vehicles offered globally. Fully electrical vehicles constituted 23 per cent of all vehicles offered throughout March. 

Total gross sales for the primary quarter of 2024 amounted to 182,687 vehicles offered globally, a rise of 12 per cent in contrast with the identical interval final 12 months. 


“These numbers reflect the strength of our strategy and product diversity – offering fully electric cars alongside plug-in hybrids and mild hybrids in the right mix,” says Björn Annwall, Volvo Cars’ Chief Commercial Officer and Deputy CEO. “We are making good progress towards our annual sales target of at least 15 per cent growth, and in the months ahead we will focus on ramping up sales of our EX30,” he provides.


European gross sales in March grew 33 per cent in contrast with the identical interval final 12 months, reaching 39,756 vehicles. Electrified vehicles within the area had an identical progress price of 34 per cent, leading to 24,856 vehicles offered. Sales of electrified vehicles accounted for 63 per cent of all vehicles offered in Europe this March.

In the US, gross sales of Volvo vehicles reached 15,315 vehicles, which is a rise of fifty per cent in contrast with March 2023. Sales of electrified vehicles grew by 25 per cent in contrast with the identical interval final 12 months and accounted for twenty-four per cent of all vehicles offered within the US. 

Sales in China reached 14,005 vehicles, a rise of 21 per cent in contrast with the identical interval final 12 months. During March, 1,039 electrified vehicles have been offered in China, a lower of 28 per cent in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months. 

For March 2024, the Volvo XC60 remained the top-selling mannequin with gross sales reaching 22,402 vehicles (2023: 18,090 vehicles), adopted by the XC40 with whole gross sales of 20,557 vehicles (2023: 20,556 vehicles) and the XC90 at 10,826 vehicles (2023: 9,828 vehicles). 

 

 

March

March

  

Q1

Q1

  
 

2024

2023

Change

2024

2023

Change

Europe

39,756

29,957

33%

89,670

72,671

23%

Electrified fashions

24,856

18,537

34%

54,819

45,055

22%

– Fully electrical

14,967

8,995

66%

31,237

21,047

48%

– Plug-in hybrid

9,889

9,542

4%

23,582

24,008

-2%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

China

14,005

11,608

21%

37,958

36,457

4%

Electrified fashions

1,039

1,442

-28%

2,443

3,830

-36%

– Fully electrical

369

435

-15%

667

926

-28%

– Plug-in hybrid

670

1,007

-33%

1,776

2,904

-39%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

US

15,315

10,230

50%

30,951

26,483

17%

Electrified fashions

3,642

2,905

25%

8,088

7,711

5%

– Fully electrical

351

1,038

-66%

970

2,782

-65%

– Plug-in hybrid

3,291

1,867

76%

7,118

4,929

44%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other

9,894

11,337

-13%

24,108

27,327

-12%

Electrified fashions

4,021

4,099

-2%

9,645

10,807

-11%

– Fully electrical

2,334

2,153

8%

5,297

5,314

0%

– Plug-in hybrid

1,687

1,946

-13%

4,348

5,493

-21%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

78,970

63,132

25%

182,687

162,938

12%

Electrified fashions

33,558

26,983

24%

74,995

67,403

11%

– Fully electrical

18,021

12,621

43%

38,171

30,069

27%

– Plug-in hybrid

15,537

14,362

8%

36,824

37,334

-1%

 

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The totally electrical Volvo EX30 named 2024 World Urban Car

Small and mighty certainly – we’re celebrating as we speak, as a result of our totally electrical Volvo EX30 has landed an enormous accolade on the prestigious World Car Awards.

 

Beating a aggressive subject of nominees, the EX30 was awarded the title of 2024 World Urban Car in a presentation held as we speak on the New York International Auto Show. Our smallest ever SUV was additionally named as one of many high three vehicles on this planet out of an inventory of 38 nominees.

 

“Winning this award with the EX30 is incredibly gratifying and a firm validation of our ambitious electrification strategy,” says Jim Rowan, our Chief Executive. “Customer response to the EX30 has exceeded our expectations, and it has proven to be a perfect car for today’s marketplace as a growing number of car buyers switch to fully electric cars. I’m convinced the EX30 will strongly contribute to our growth this year and beyond.”

 

The EX30 was revealed final summer time to virtually common acclaim and has already gained a number of main awards, together with The Sun Car of the Year, the Small SUV/Crossover of the Year award from The Sunday Times, and the Eco Warrior of the Year award from Top Gear journal.

 

As such, the EX30 is a robust addition to our product portfolio, which additionally incorporates a number of engaging plug-in hybrid and mild-hybrid fashions in a number of segments. Those vehicles are an essential bridge on the best way to Volvo Cars’ ambition to promote solely electrical vehicles by 2030.

 

Since its reveal, the EX30 has quickly confirmed to be a well-liked automotive with prospects – primarily based on our orderbook, we count on it to be certainly one of our best-selling fashions this 12 months.

 

It is the smallest SUV we’ve ever launched and it’s constructed on a purpose-designed electrical automotive platform. In addition to producing zero tailpipe emissions, it has been developed with a deal with preserving its carbon footprint to a minimal throughout the automotive’s full lifecycle.

 

EX30 patrons have a selection of three electrical powertrains: a Single Motor model with 200kW (272hp) and a 51kWh battery; a Single Motor Extended Range with battery capability elevated to 69kWh; and a Twin Motor Performance mannequin with 315kW (428hp) and a 69kWh battery. The EX30 provides a driving vary of as much as 296 miles (476km) and its battery could be recharged from 10 to 80 per cent capability in slightly over 25 minutes.

The small print

  • Charging instances are depending on components similar to out of doors temperature, present battery temperature, charging gear, battery situation and automotive situation.
  • Range in line with the life like WLTP driving cycle below managed situations for a brand new automotive. Real-world vary might range.
  • Features and companies might not be accessible in all markets and won’t be customary in all markets or for all fashions.
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Dear diesel, it’s time to say goodbye

We proudly introduced it to the world at Climate Week NYC in September final 12 months, and now it’s turning into a actuality: we’ve constructed our final diesel automotive.

On a cloudy Thursday in early February, the plant in Ghent, Belgium, produced its final diesel-powered automotive, a V60. And simply the opposite day, the plant in Torslanda, Sweden, noticed its final XC90 diesel automotive roll off the manufacturing line.

These occasions mark an enormous milestone in Volvo Cars’ 97-year historical past. With this transfer, we’re taking an enormous step in the direction of our ambitions of turning into a totally electrical automotive maker, in addition to reaching web zero greenhouse fuel emissions by 2040.

Goodbye diesel, howdy electrical

For a very long time, our diesel engines had been synonymous with reliability and effectivity, they usually meant an awesome deal to us for a lot of a long time. Indeed, the success of our diesel automobiles performed a big function in our evolution right into a premium model.

In latest years, the electrical revolution has developed faster than most of us might have imagined – and it’s largely propelled by tightening laws round tailpipe emissions, in addition to buyer demand in response to the local weather disaster and a want for cleaner city air. Only 5 years in the past, the diesel engine was our bread and butter in Europe, identical to it was for many different automotive makers. The majority of the automobiles we bought in Europe in 2019 ran on diesel, whereas electrical fashions had been simply beginning to acquire traction.

Today, most of our gross sales on the continent are electrified automobiles. Last 12 months, we elevated our gross sales of absolutely electrical automobiles by 70 per cent, and our international electrical market share by 34 per cent. The figures communicate for themselves, underscoring that the all-electric course we’re now heading in the direction of is the precise one to take, and we achieve this with our flag held excessive.

While our future certainly is absolutely electrical, our blended portfolio consists of some wonderful plug-in hybrid and mild-hybrid fashions, which is able to act as an ideal bridge in the direction of that future.

A historical past of satisfaction

As we are saying farewell to our diesel automobiles, let’s discover the way it all started and unfolded. Here are some key milestones in our diesel historical past:

•    1979. Neither Sweden nor Europe is a diesel market. Those who purchase diesel automobiles are usually taxi drivers or long-haul travellers. But folks have slowly begun to see the advantages of the extra environment friendly diesel engines and demand is on the rise. So, we take heed to our prospects and introduce our first-ever diesel automotive: the Volvo 244 GL D6. The engine is highly effective, very environment friendly and the world’s first six-cylinder diesel engine for passenger automobiles.

•    2001. The diesel automotive scene good points momentum. When we launch the Volvo V70, it’s additionally lastly time for us to introduce our first self-built diesel engine. This five-cylinder engine, manufactured on the Volvo powertrain plant in Skövde, Sweden, is to turn out to be an enormous success and can energy many Volvo automobiles throughout Europe. It’s made in a number of totally different variations and is so highly effective that it’s even getting used on the racetrack in a automotive referred to as the S60 Challenge. Also, our buddies at Volvo Penta even determined to make a marine model of this engine.

•    2008. Time for our subsequent massive diesel milestone: the launch of the Drive-E lineup – that includes small but extremely environment friendly 1.6-litre diesel engines. With the solar in your face and the wind at your again, you may go 1,300km on a single tank, and CO2 emission ranges are so low that they get labeled as ‘green engines’ in Sweden. The Drive-E engines are flexibly constructed and work properly in numerous Volvo fashions. With their steadiness of effectivity and efficiency, they mark an enormous step ahead in diesel know-how.

•    2012. We launch the Volvo V60 D6 plug-in hybrid, which is a novel automotive: it’s the world’s first plug-in hybrid fitted with a diesel engine. At the time, it’s our most technically superior mannequin ever – electrical, hybrid and a muscle automotive unexpectedly. And it’s really one thing of an engineering surprise. Depending on the driving mode, it might go so far as 50 kilometres on electrical energy, has a complete vary of as much as 1,000 kilometres, and with 215 horsepower from the diesel engine and 70 horsepower from the electrical motor, it accelerates from 0 to 100km/h in 6.2 seconds.

•    2013. For the second time in historical past, we launch a very self-built diesel engine household: Volvo Engine Architecture (VEA). The mixture of upper injection stress and the distinctive i-ART know-how is taken into account revolutionary within the diesel trade. Our prospects can take pleasure in higher gasoline financial system, decrease emissions and excessive output. The new engines are utilized in a wide range of fashions and turn out to be successful within the second-generation XC90. They stay on till the top, powering the final diesel-powered V60 and XC90 we construct.

•    2023. We transfer away from combustion engines by promoting our stake in Aurobay, the combustion engine three way partnership firm now we have along with Geely Holding.

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Media advisory – not for publication: adjustments to the Volvo Car UK PR and Communications group

I’m comfortable to announce that there’s a brand new member of the PR and Communications group, with Maya Perzanowska just lately becoming a member of us as PR and Communications Support Executive.

Maya joined us final month on a six-month secondment from our Customer Care group, the place she has spent the previous 4 years working – most just lately as a Social Media Specialist.

During her time with us, she will probably be serving to ship our upcoming media actions, so will little question be in contact with a few of you quickly.

Many of you’ll be conscious that Rachel Granger left us in the direction of the tip of final 12 months to pursue an thrilling new profession at a advertising company. A everlasting alternative will probably be sought within the coming months.

Please be a part of me in giving Maya a heat welcome to the group.

The remainder of the group stays the identical, with all our particulars beneath:

Tom Lynch
Head of PR and Communications
tom.lynch@volvocars.com
+44 (0)7392 196855

Barnaby Jones
Product Communications Manager
barnaby.jones@volvocars.com
+44 (0)7802 840351

Joe Watters
Press Fleet Controller
volvocarspress@xpauto.co.uk
+44 (0)7399 296379
+44 (0)1494 561007

Maya Perzanowska
PR and Communications Support Executive
maya.perzanowska@volvocars.com
+44 (0)7831 990736

Warm regards,

Tom and the Volvo Car UK PR and Communications group

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Volvo EX30 LCA reveals lowest carbon footprint of any totally electrical Volvo automotive to this point

The Volvo EX30 possesses the smallest carbon footprint of any totally electrical Volvo automotive to this point1. That’s in response to the life cycle evaluation (LCA) of the Volvo EX30, out there here, which concludes that it has a complete carbon footprint of 23 tonnes per 200,000 km – approximately 60 per cent lower than the XC40 ICE (petrol)2.

The carbon footprint report identifies the important thing contributing supplies and processes to the automotive’s emissions. Exclusively targeted on greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions, the report covers the automotive’s life cycle, beginning with the extraction and refining of uncooked supplies and ending with the automotive’s finish of life.

Using wind-based electrical energy to cost the EX30 considerably reduces the carbon footprint in contrast with world or European electrical energy mixes by roughly 42 per cent and 22 per cent respectively3. This underlines the necessity to speed up investments in renewable power infrastructure globally for electrical vehicles to achieve their full local weather potential.

“Transitioning to electric cars is key to limiting climate change, but increased transparency about its challenges is needed to reduce their emissions even further,” says Jonas Otterheim, Head of Climate Action at Volvo Cars. “By studying the EX30’s carbon footprint and identifying its primary materials and processes, we aim to provide valuable insights that can help guide decisions in our company towards becoming more sustainable, as well as among the wider industry.”

We have now accomplished complete LCAs of the carbon footprint for 3 of our totally electrical vehicles launched since 2019: the Volvo EX40, EC40 and now the EX30. By making these experiences out there to the general public, we hope to assist prospects make knowledgeable selections when selecting their subsequent electrical automotive.


An vital step in our journey in the direction of web zero greenhouse fuel emissions
A automotive is not only pushed. It can be designed, developed, constructed and transported – offering us with quite a few alternatives to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions and make progress in the direction of achieving every of our sustainability ambitions. With the Volvo EX30 we are taking an vital stride in the direction of our purpose of turning into a completely electrical automotive firm by 2030 and our intention to achieve web zero greenhouse fuel emissions by 2040. 

The proportion of recycled supplies within the EX30 is the best of any Volvo automotive up to now. Around one quarter of the aluminum and nearly one fifth of the metal is recycled materials. In addition, round 17 per cent of all plastics inside the automotive, from inside parts to exterior bumpers, are comprised of recycled materials. 

Thanks to initiatives throughout our provide chain and manufacturing, the LFP-equipped Volvo EX30 has a ‘cradle-to-gate’ affect of an estimated 14.8 tonnes – simply over 60 per cent of the mannequin’s complete carbon footprint4. This consists of emissions generated through the manufacturing of supplies and the automotive, however excludes emissions from the use and end-of-life phases of the EX30. 

We plan to scale back the EX30’s CO2 affect even additional by collaborating with suppliers throughout our total worth chain. By 2025 for instance, our battery suppliers are working in the direction of decreasing emissions from manufacturing the LFP battery by 20 per cent, and by 46 per cent within the case of the NMC battery. To do that, our suppliers intention to switch electrical energy utilization throughout cell manufacturing with renewable power sources, improve the share of recycled content material of their supplies and cut back their provide chain emissions.

Production of the EX30 started in November 2023, and the primary vehicles have been delivered to their new homeowners in European markets late final 12 months. To date, the EX30 has acquired a number of prestigious awards, together with Small SUV/Crossover of the Year within the News UK Motor Awards, Carwow Car of the Year 2024, Eco Warrior of the Year within the TopGear.com Awards 2023, and Car of the Year by The Sun.

1 The lowest carbon footprint of any totally electrical Volvo automotive to this point assertion pertains to globally out there merchandise over 200,000 kilometres of driving utilizing the identical power combine through the use section

 

2 Based on Single Motor geared up with an LFP battery (51kWh) with 15 years and 200,000 kilometres of driving, utilizing an EU28 common power combine

 

3 Based on Single Motor geared up with an LFP battery (51kWh) with 15 years and 200,000 kilometres of driving, utilizing an EU28 common power combine

 

4 Based on Single Motor geared up with an LFP battery (51kWh) with 15 years and 200,000 kilometres of driving, utilizing an EU28 common power combine