Volvo still badly hit by chip shortage
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Tuesday, 30 November 2021 12:09

Volvo still badly hit by chip shortage


Will continue until next year

Volvo Cars warned that the sector-wide semiconductor shortage would continue into next year, as its first quarterly report since listing on the stock market a month ago confirmed a dip in revenue and profit.

Volvo stalls on chip shortage
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Wednesday, 11 August 2021 12:21

Volvo stalls on chip shortage


Down for a week

Inventor of the seat belt, Volvo, has temporarily stopped production at its Swedish plant in Gothenburg due to the shortage of semiconductor chips.

Volvo will go all-electric by 2030
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Wednesday, 03 March 2021 12:12

Volvo will go all-electric by 2030


Goodbye petrol

Supersafe carmaker Volvo has announced that its entire car lineup will be fully electric by 2030.

Volvo releases the all-electric car
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Friday, 01 March 2019 11:40

Volvo releases the all-electric car


Polestar comes with Google

Volvo has released its first all-electric car to take on the Tesla 3.

Volvo shows off cabless self-driving truck
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Thursday, 13 September 2018 11:02

Volvo shows off cabless self-driving truck


'ello Vera 

Sweden’s Volvo, the world’s second-biggest truck maker, presented a new self-driving electric truckwhich it said should help respond to the boom in ecommerce and a shortage of freight drivers.

Software failed in Uber pedestrian fatality
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NTSB confirms

The USA National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued a preliminary report about the first Uber pedestrian fatality. In short, the sensors worked and the software failed.

Volvo to get Intel-based infotainment with Android P OS
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Powered by Intel's Atom Automotive SoC

At the Google I/O conference, Volvo has teamed up with Intel and Google to show its latest infotainment system based on Intel's Atom automotive SoC and running on the latest Android P OS.

Technology failed in Uber fatality
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Friday, 30 March 2018 12:20

Technology failed in Uber fatality


The self-driving car didn’t slow down

Self-driving cars should be very safe and reliable, but earlier this week in a little town in the US called Tempe, a 49 year old woman lost her life to a self-driving vehicle.

Volvo will give up on completely petrol cars by 2019
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Out of gas

Volvo has announced that starting in 2019, all of the new models it produces will be electric or hybrid.

Swedish Volvo driving systems can't understand kangaroos
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Has no problem with duck-billed Platypus

They might have a reputation of being the dullest but safest cars in the world, but Volvo’s self-driving cars are having a problem down under.