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Report: Oil-burning engines a problem for Subarus, Acuras, Audis, moreJuly 27, 2021 at 1:40 PM  Tags: Maintenance, Autos, Bmw, Volkswagen, Chevrolet, Audi, Mini, Volvo, Subaru, Acura, Read This, Auto Repair 50 people like this. Like A good attitude is required to enter this exclusive motoring clubJuly 26, 2021 at 2:00 PM  Tags: Los Angeles, Porsche, Autos, Volvo, Angeles Crest Highway, Newcomb, Magnus Walker, Porsche Car Shows, Good Vibes, Jeff Zwart, Late Night Playset, Good Vibes Breakfast Club 69 people like this. Like Volvo Buying Itself Out of Chinese Joint VentureJuly 21, 2021 at 3:01 PM Volvo Cars is plotting to buy out parent company Zhejiang Geely Holding and free itself of its Chinese joint venture. The Swedish (currently Swedish-Chinese) manufacturer has been hinting at the prospect of going public with an IPO, which most analysts believe would be bolstered by creating some distance from Geely. While the Chinese Communist Party has […]
The post Volvo Buying Itself Out of Chinese Joint Venture appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: China, Ipo, Industry, Autos, Chinese communist party, Volvo, Stock Exchange, Industry News, Joint Ventures, Geely, Volvo Cars, News Blog, Zhejiang Geely Holding, Going Public, Chinese joint venture 5 people like this. Like Volvo Concept Recharge: Reinventing The Iconic Swedish Station WagonJuly 21, 2021 at 1:54 PM Volvo recently unveiled Concept Recharge, the Swedish automaker’s vision of the future. And unlike its previous all-electric offerings, the Volvo Concept Recharge has none of that cookie-cutter design nonsense. Volvo currently has two EVs in its stable: XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge, both of which we can’t tell apart like monozygotic twins.
Thankfully, Concept Recharge is taking a different approach. “Our Concept Recharge represents a manifesto for the all-electric future of Volvo Cars, as w...Tags: Magazine, Autos, Thor, Volvo, Volvo Cars, LUMINAR, Alvin Reyes, Lancer GSR, Volvo Car Group Original, Volvo Concept Recharge, Robin Page Volvo 20 people like this. Like SPACs keep rolling as autonomous vehicle startup Aurora targets blank-check debut with $13B valuationJuly 15, 2021 at 9:38 AM Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in December, is going public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y.
The deal announced Thursday confirms TechCrunch’s reporting in June that the startup was in final talks with the SPAC launched by LinkedIn co-founder and investor Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and managing partner Michael Thompson.
The combined company, which is will be listed on Nasd...Tags: Startups, Transportation, Uber, Softbank, Linkedin, Automotive, Reid Hoffman, Autonomous Vehicles, New York Stock Exchange, North America, Sequoia Capital, Volvo, Greylock Partners, Greylock, Mark Pincus, Baillie Gifford 35 people like this. Like The Station: Rimac-Bugatti is born, Tesla releases FSD beta v9 and Ola raises $500MJuly 12, 2021 at 8:00 AM Hello and welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.
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You might recall that I mentioned I was off to do some backpacking and climbing in Grand Teton National Park and then eventually would make it to Yellowstone National Park. Yes, th...Tags: Transportation, South Korea, Europe, France, Germany, India, Halo, Tech, Tesla, Eu, Bloomberg, European Union, Atlantic, Automotive, Egypt, Vw 16 people like this. Like 5 trends in self-driving cars anyone trying to get ahead in the industry needs to know aboutJuly 11, 2021 at 8:54 AM Tags: Apple, Transportation, Elon Musk, Cars, US, Trends, Tesla, Walmart, Features, Arizona, Autonomous Vehicles, Volvo, Daimler, Musk, Aurora, SPAC 116 people like this. Like EU fines BMW, VW $1B for running emissions cartel since the 90sJuly 8, 2021 at 8:31 PM As environmental issues really came of age in the 1990s, certain German automakers were meeting in secret groups to make sure their cars would continue to industriously contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. According to the European Union, Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW and Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler have been illegally colluding to restrict competition in emission cleaning for new diesel passenger cars, essentially slowing the deployment of cleaner emissions tech. On Thursday, the E...Tags: Transportation, Europe, Tech, Eu, Automotive, Vw, Porsche, Bmw, Volkswagen, Audi, Volvo, Daimler, Margrethe Vestager, Ford Motor Company, Mercedes Benz, U S Environmental Protection Agency 47 people like this. Like Latest Lotus, Lamborghini models are last of a gas eraJuly 7, 2021 at 5:51 PM By Peter Valdes-Dapena | CNN
Lamborghini on Wednesday unveiled what will be its last V12-powered supercar driven purely on gasoline. While there will be more V12 Lamborghini models in the future, they will be plug-in hybrids, the Italian supercar manufacturer said.
Lamborghini, which has built supercars with big 12-cylinder engines for almost 60 years, is one of several supercar makers, including Ferrari and McLaren, that are creating plug-in hybrid sports cars or fully-electric models to meet i...Tags: News, Climate Change, China, Environment, Tesla, Sport, World news, Britain, Soccer, Ferrari, Autos, Toyota, Mclaren, Lotus, Volvo, Tesla Roadster Volvo, Daimler, Traton invest $593 million to build electric truck charging networkJuly 5, 2021 at 6:58 PM Volvo Group, Daimler Truck and Volkswagon’s AG heavy-truck business the Traton Group announced on Monday a non-binding agreement to build a network of high-performance public charging stations for electric heavy-duty long-haul trucks and buses around Europe. The news was first reported by Reuters.
The three major European automakers will invest €500 million (~$593 million USD) to install and operate 1,700 charging points in strategic locations and close to highways. They intend to finalize the a...Tags: Transportation, Europe, Tech, European Union, Automotive, Vw, Electric Vehicles, EVs, Volvo, Daimler, Reuters, Daimler Trucks, Volkswagen AG, Volvo Group, ACEA, Volvo Daimler 33 people like this. Like Volvo Cars sets the tone for its next-gen vehicles with ‘Concept Recharge’ EVJune 30, 2021 at 3:28 PM  Tags: Google, Android, TC, Transportation, Europe, Tech, Automotive, Electric Vehicles, Gm, Nvidia, Volvo, Volvo Cars, Hakan Samuelsson, Skelleftea Sweden, LUMINAR, Battery Electric Vehicles 84 people like this. Like Prologue, Honda’s first electric SUV, is coming to market in 2024June 28, 2021 at 10:18 AM Honda said Monday it will sell its first electric SUV in North America in early 2024, part of the automaker’s push to shift away from gas-powered vehicles before the middle of the decade. The new car’s name, Prologue, is meant to signify the beginning of what the company called its “new electrified era.”
Prologue is one of two forthcoming Honda vehicles that will use General Motors’ Ultium Cells EV platform and battery packs. The other, yet unnamed car, will be under the Acura brand and will als...Tags: Transportation, Tech, General Motors, Tesla, Automotive, Electric Vehicles, Gm, Volkswagen, Honda, North America, Volvo, Acura, Ford Mustang Mach, Worcester Massachusetts, Toshihiro Mibe, Battery Resourcers 15 people like this. Like Lidar company Quanergy to go public via $1.4B SPAC dealJune 22, 2021 at 12:26 PM Quanergy Systems, the Sunnyvale, California-based lidar company, said Tuesday it has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition fund CITIC Capital Acquisition Corp., a Chinese blank-check firm affiliated with the country’s largest state-owned investment conglomerate.
The deal, which puts an implied valuation on Quanergy at $1.4 billion, is expected to close in the second half of 2021. After closing, the transaction will inject the lidar company with around $278 million in pro forma net cas...Tags: TC, Transportation, China, Funding, Samsung, Tech, Tesla, Bloomberg, Automotive, United States, Private Equity, Autonomous Vehicles, Volvo, Lidar, Daimler, Citic 16 people like this. Like Rare Rides: A Very Exclusive 1998 Volvo S90 Royal HermèsJune 18, 2021 at 9:00 AM Long before the S90 moniker was applied to a Chinese-produced front-drive car, it was (for a short while) the last chapter in a series of luxurious rear-drive Volvo sedans. What we have here is a last-of moment for Volvo, and a very rare one at that. Presenting the S90 Royal Hermès. Of course in the beginning […]
The post Rare Rides: A Very Exclusive 1998 Volvo S90 Royal Hermès appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: Sweden, Luxury cars, Editorials, Used Cars, Autos, Volvo, 1990s, Volvo S90, Sedans, News Blog, Limousines, S90, Collector Cars, Rare Rides, Large Cars, S90 Royal Hermes 5 people like this. Like Polestar Announces Electric SUV Will Be Made in AmericaJune 16, 2021 at 1:00 PM Volvo-owned Polestar has announced that its upcoming “performance SUV” will be manufactured within the United States, starting late in 2022. The model will be assembled alongside other Volvo products at the Swedish company’s facility in South Carolina. It also provides an opportunity for Chinese parent Zhejiang Geely Holdings to make meaningful moves on the North American […]
The post Polestar Announces Electric SUV Will Be Made in America appeared first on The Truth About Cars.Tags: America, United States, Autos, Volvo, South Carolina, Polestar, Zhejiang Geely Holdings 4 people like this. Like Polestar to build its first all-electric SUV in the United StatesJune 16, 2021 at 6:00 AM Polestar, Volvo Car Group’s standalone electric performance brand, will manufacture its first all-electric SUV in the United States.
The automaker said Wednesday that the Polestar 3 will be assembled at a plant shared with Volvo Cars at a factory in Ridgeville, South Carolina. The Polestar 3 follows the all-electric Polestar 2 sedan and the hybrid grand tourer Polestar 1. Production of Polestar 3 is expected to begin globally in 2022.
Polestar COO Dennis Nobelius said production in the U.S. will...Tags: Transportation, China, Tech, Tesla, Automotive, United States, Electric Vehicles, Volvo, Geely, Volvo Cars, Volvo Car Group, Polestar, Dennis Nobelius, Ridgeville South Carolina, Zhejiang Geely Holding of China Volvo, Polestar Volvo Car Group 25 people like this. Like Volvo Cars wants to make a concept car using “fossil-free” steelJune 16, 2021 at 3:00 AM Volvo Cars wants to be climate-neutral by 2040, and it has set its sights on a major vehicle component that’s notoriously difficult to decarbonize: steel. The automaker has partnered with Swedish company SSAB, which manufactures “fossil-free” steel, for a limited amount of the material to be used in a concept car as early as 2025.
A climate-neutral car is considered by many to be a moonshot goal, not least because of the challenge in decarbonizing components like steel. The steel industry, which...Tags: TC, Transportation, Tech, Automotive, Volvo, Steel, Vattenfall, Fisker, Volvo Cars, SSAB, Volvo Car Group, Luleå Sweden, Decarbonization, LKAB SSAB, Kerstin Enochsson, Enochsson 47 people like this. Like Waymo and JB Hunt partner to bring autonomous trucks to Texas in new pilotJune 10, 2021 at 10:03 AM Waymo will be moving freight for a major customer of transportation logistics company J.B. Hunt Transport Services under what the two companies are calling a “test run” that will take place in one of the country’s busiest trade corridors.
Waymo Via, the company’s trucking and cargo transportation service, will transport goods along Interstate 45 between Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. The trucks will be powered by the Waymo Driver autonomous platform, though a Waymo “autonomous specialists,” a co...Tags: Transportation, Texas, Tech, Automotive, Houston, Volvo, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler, Hunt, Autonomous Driving, Fort Worth Texas, Daimler Trucks, J B Hunt Transport Services, Autonomous Trucks, Waymo, Autonomous Trucking 38 people like this. Like Waymo and J.B. Hunt partner to bring autonomous trucks to Texas in new pilotJune 10, 2021 at 10:03 AM Waymo will be moving freight for a major customer of transportation logistics company J.B. Hunt Transport Services under what the two companies are calling a “test run” that will take place in one of the country’s busiest trade corridors.
Waymo Via, the company’s trucking and cargo transportation service, will transport goods along Interstate 45 between Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. The trucks will be powered by the Waymo Driver autonomous platform, though a Waymo “autonomous specialist,” a com...Tags: Transportation, Texas, Tech, Automotive, Houston, Volvo, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler, Hunt, Autonomous Driving, Fort Worth Texas, Daimler Trucks, J B Hunt Transport Services, Autonomous Trucks, Waymo, Autonomous Trucking 13 people like this. Like ISEE brings autonomy to shipping hubs with self-driving yard trucksJune 8, 2021 at 12:04 PM Robotaxis may still be a few years out, but there are other industries that can be transformed by autonomous vehicles as they are today. MIT spin-off ISEE has identified one in the common shipping yard, where containers are sorted and stored — today by a dwindling supply of human drivers, but tomorrow perhaps by the company’s purpose-built robotic yard truck. With new funding and partnerships with major shippers, the company may be about to go big.
Shipping yards are the buffer zone of the logis...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Transportation, Hardware, Funding, Tech, Mit, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive, Shipping, Autonomous Vehicles, Self-driving Cars, North America, Robotics, Logistics 11 people like this. Like ISEE brings autonomy to shipping yards with self-driving container trucksJune 8, 2021 at 12:04 PM Robotaxis may still be a few years out, but there are other industries that can be transformed by autonomous vehicles as they are today. MIT spin-off ISEE has identified one in the common shipping yard, where containers are sorted and stored — today by a dwindling supply of human drivers, but tomorrow perhaps by the company’s purpose-built robotic yard truck. With new funding and partnerships with major shippers, the company may be about to go big.
Shipping yards are the buffer zone of the logis...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Transportation, Hardware, Funding, Tech, Mit, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive, Shipping, Autonomous Vehicles, Self-driving Cars, North America, Robotics, Logistics 9 people like this. Like Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman’s newest SPACJune 4, 2021 at 3:51 PM Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, the newest special purpose acquisition company launched by LinkedIn co-founder and investor Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and managing partner Michael Thompson, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
One of the sticking points is the targeted valuation, which had been as high as $20 billion. It is now closer to $12 billion and the deal is expected to be announced...Tags: TC, Transportation, Uber, Softbank, Linkedin, Tech, Bloomberg, Automotive, Venture Capital, Reid Hoffman, Autonomous Vehicles, New York Stock Exchange, North America, Sequoia Capital, Volvo, Greylock Partners 7 people like this. Like Porsche Commemorates the Mercedes-Benz 500 E’s 30th AnniversaryJune 1, 2021 at 2:09 PM  Tags: News, Porsche, Autos, Audi, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes, Volvo, Daimler Benz, Sindelfingen, Weissach, Porsche Museum, Zuffenhausen, Holscher, Reutter, Untertürkheim Germany, 500e 65 people like this. Like The Station: London scooter winners and Ford’s most important EVMay 24, 2021 at 10:38 AM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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I want to point to two Extra Crunch articles before jumping into the rest of the news and analysis. Yes, Extra Crunch requires a subscription. We’re ramping up the transportation an...Tags: Google, Amazon, Lyft, London, California, Washington, France, America, Los Angeles, Tech, General Motors, Canary Wharf, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Chicago, Automotive 24 people like this. Like Google is making it easier to bring Android apps to your carMay 18, 2021 at 7:00 PM  Tags: Google, TC, Spotify, Tech, Automotive, Volvo, Android Auto, Polestar, Google I/O 2021, Volvo GM Renault, Google Play Store Many 121 people like this. Like Volvo’s Reddit Campaign Calls on Community to Share Terrifying Car Crash StoriesMay 12, 2021 at 9:00 AM When Volvo's marketing team was considering how to spark a conversation about the brand's safety record, Reddit might have seemed like an odd fit, but to the Swedish automaker, the connection felt natural. For one thing, ensuring safety is an attribute for which both brands strive to be known. But Reddit has become a place...Tags: Advertising, Automotive, Reddit, Volvo, Performance Marketing, Brand Purpose, Reddit Campaign Calls on Community 3 people like this. Like How semitrucks are crash testedMay 11, 2021 at 11:00 AM Just like consumer cars have to undergo crash testing, so do commercial semitrucks.
Some of these tests are the same, but others are designed specifically for trucks.
Thanks to these crash test trials, safety standards for trucks are only improving.
See more stories on Insider's business page.
Following is a transcript of the video.Narrator: Every year, there are half a million semitruck accidents in the US alone. That's why, just like passenger cars, these massive vehicles need to be c...Tags: Transportation, Video, Cars, US, Trends, European Union, Volkswagen, Trucks, Volvo, Volvo Trucks, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Scania, IIHS, Crash Test, Semi Trucks, Daniel Gessner 5 people like this. Like Volvo AG and Daimler Trucks team up in hydrogen fuel cell joint ventureMay 3, 2021 at 1:02 PM Competitors Volvo AB and Daimler Trucks are teaming up to produce hydrogen fuel cells for long-haul trucks, which the companies say will lower development costs and boost production volumes. The joint venture, which is called cellcentric, aims to bring large-scale “gigafactory” production levels of hydrogen fuel cells to Europe by 2025.
While the two companies are teaming up to produce the fuel cells via the cellcentric venture, all other aspects of truck production will remain separate. The loc...Tags: TC, Transportation, Europe, Tech, Tesla, European Union, Automotive, Volvo, Daimler, Bosch, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Daimler Trucks, Volvo AB, Lars Stenqvist, Volvo AG, Volvo CTO 44 people like this. Like Volvo AB and Daimler Trucks team up in hydrogen fuel cell joint ventureMay 3, 2021 at 1:02 PM Competitors Volvo AB and Daimler Trucks are teaming up to produce hydrogen fuel cells for long-haul trucks, which the companies say will lower development costs and boost production volumes. The joint venture, which is called cellcentric, aims to bring large-scale “gigafactory” production levels of hydrogen fuel cells to Europe by 2025.
While the two companies are teaming up to produce the fuel cells via the cellcentric venture, all other aspects of truck production will remain separate. The loc...Tags: TC, Transportation, Europe, Tech, Tesla, European Union, Automotive, Volvo, GreenTech, Daimler, Bosch, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Daimler Trucks, Volvo AB, Lars Stenqvist, Volvo CTO 49 people like this. Like The Station: Lyft sells its self-driving unit, Uber makes a big product push and Revel jumps into ride-hailingMay 3, 2021 at 11:03 AM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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