The upcoming Mobility Innovation Destination Torslanda is a tailor-made take a look at mattress of automotive growth close to the center of our operations in Gothenburg, Sweden. This initiative continues our electrification journey and development of our subsequent technology of premium electrical automobiles, and is a recommitment to our hometown of almost one hundred years.
The innovation centre will enable us to take a look at rising applied sciences in an surroundings designed to emulate the longer term society that we envision our automobiles to be a part of. So somewhat than growing applied sciences like wi-fi automotive charging, vehicle-to-grid bi-directional charging and self-driving capabilities solely in labs and growth centres, we can even have the ability to take a look at, validate and deploy our improvements in a city-like surroundings.
Alongside new buildings and amenities for testing, engineering and supplies, we plan to increase the Volvo Cars’ campus in Torslanda, Gothenburg, to deal with start-ups and enterprise companions.
“With this initiative we aim to create an ecosystem where we can develop the future of mobility – including cars, the technology inside of them and the infrastructure around them, all hand in hand,” says Jim Rowan, chief government of Volvo Cars. “Our ambition is to pioneer technology, attract global talent and connect with other cutting-edge businesses.”
The subsequent step in creating the brand new Mobility Innovation Destination Torslanda is to assemble buildings to deal with trendy places of work simply throughout the street from our current campus. Construction will proceed with a cheap collaboration between Volvo Cars and actual property builders Vectura Fastigheter and Next Step Group.
The additions can even be essential to fulfil our ongoing strategic ambitions to be totally electrical by 2030 and an business chief in new expertise and sustainable mobility.
The venture’s sustainability targets are formidable. The first new building of 25,000 sq. meters will likely be devoted for Volvo Cars’ sole use and is a wooden hybrid, which reduces the carbon footprint by 15 % in comparison with a standard body of metal and concrete. The building is deliberate to begin within the second quarter of 2024 and the primary constructing is predicted to be completed by 2026, in time for Volvo Cars’ one-hundred-year anniversary in 2027.
Current plans additionally contain our campus to be included in an enlargement of the Gothenburg Green City Zone initiative. This zone covers the world the place the town of Gothenburg along with Volvo Cars and additional companies, researchers and others can take a look at new technology for each autos and infrastructure with the purpose of attaining emission-free transport by 2030.
With this initiative, we purpose to boost our connection to different mobility innovation nodes across the metropolis and add much more engineering capabilities to our Gothenburg campus.
Together with a not too long ago opened software program take a look at centre, the world has a powerful engineering presence together with a producing plant, design centre and take a look at and growth amenities together with a pilot plant, battery lab, wind tunnels, security centre with crash take a look at labs. A brand new battery plant by Novo, our three way partnership with Northvolt, can also be beneath building. In 2022, Volvo Cars additionally announced that we are going to make investments SEK 10bn in our Torslanda plant for next-generation totally electrical automotive manufacturing, together with the introduction of mega casting of aluminium physique elements, a brand new battery meeting plant and totally refurbished paint and last meeting outlets.
Part of a bigger ecosystem
Mobility Innovation Destination Torslanda will be a part of the rising checklist of our bodily places world wide, together with our not too long ago opened software program testing centre in Gothenburg and a number of Tech Hubs.
We function Tech Hubs in Sweden (Stockholm and Lund), Poland (Krakow), India (Bangalore) and Singapore. We even have engineering centres in Gothenburg, Sweden and in Shanghai, China. While every of those places has its personal focus, collectively they signify a vital community of strategically situated innovation centres.
For extra data, please go to: https://www.innovationdestinationtorslanda.com
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Volvo Cars in 2023
For the complete 12 months 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 world gross sales reached a file 708,716 automobiles.