65 Facts About Volvo Personvagnar

Volvo Personvagnar Cars was publicly listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange in 2021, though Geely still retains majority ownership.

In March 2021, Volvo Personvagnar Cars announced that it would be a fully electric brand by 2030.

Volvo Personvagnar was founded upon the concept of safety in 1927, in Gothenburg, Sweden:.

Trademark Volvo Personvagnar was first registered by SKF on 11 May 1915 with the intention to use it for a special series of ball bearing for the American market but it was never used for this purpose .

Some pre-series of Volvo Personvagnar-bearings stamped with the brand name 'Volvo Personvagnar' were manufactured but never released to the market, and it was not until 1927 that the trademark was used again, now as a trademark and company name for an automobile.

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In 1963, Volvo Personvagnar opened the Volvo Personvagnar Halifax Assembly plant, the first assembly plant in the company's history outside of Sweden, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 1964, Volvo Personvagnar opened its Torslanda plant in Sweden, which currently is one of its largest production sites .

Volvo Personvagnar nearly merged with Saab in the late seventies, while in 1978 an aborted affair would have seen the Norwegian state take over 40 percent of the company.

In return, Volvo Personvagnar would receive 200 million SEK and a ten percent concession in the Oseberg oil field.

The buyout of Volvo Personvagnar Cars was announced on 28 January 1999, and in the following year the acquisition was completed at a price of US$6.

Ford decided to restructure plans for Volvo Personvagnar Cars, pushing it further upmarket, alongside the lower end of Mercedes and BMW sedans, wagons, and SUV crossovers.

On 28 October 2009, Ford confirmed that, after considering several offers, the preferred buyer of Volvo Personvagnar Cars was Geely Holding Group, the parent of motor manufacturer Geely Automobile.

In 2015, Volvo Personvagnar sold more than half a million cars for the first time in its 89-year history.

Volvo Personvagnar reported strong sales from all three core global regions.

Implementation of the announcement could mean Volvo Personvagnar becoming the first manufacturer to end production of internal combustion-only vehicles, with all vehicles hybrid or electric powered.

In 2021, Volvo Personvagnar Cars set up a joint venture with Geely for its hybrid engine operations.

Volvo Personvagnar cars have long been marketed as safe and the company has stressed their historic reputation for solidity and reliability in marketing campaigns.

Volvo Personvagnar uses high-tech safety systems as standard equipment in new vehicles.

Additionally, Volvo Personvagnar developed the first rear-facing child seat in 1964 and introduced its own booster seat in 1978.

In 1994, to add to its SIPS, Volvo Personvagnar was the first to introduce side airbags and installed them as standard equipment in all models from 1995.

In 1995, the Volvo Personvagnar 745 was recalled as the front seatbelt mounts could break in a collision.

In 1998, Volvo Personvagnar installed a head-protecting airbag, which was made standard in all new models as well as some existing models.

In 1998, Volvo Personvagnar introduced its Whiplash Protection System, a safety device to prevent injury to front seat users during collisions.

In 2004, Volvo Personvagnar introduced the Blind Spot Information System, which detects vehicles entering the vehicle's blind spot with a side-view-mirror-mounted camera, and alerts the driver with a light.

In 2005, Volvo Personvagnar presented the second generation of Volvo Personvagnar C70, which came with extra stiff door-mounted inflatable side curtains dubbed 'DMIC'.

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Volvo Personvagnar has patented all its safety innovations, including SIPS, WHIPS, ROPS, DSTC, and body structures.

In 2005, when the American non-profit, non-governmental Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released its first annual "Top Safety Picks" vehicles list, none of Volvo Personvagnar's offered vehicles in the US were included on the list.

Dan Johnston, a Volvo Personvagnar spokesman, denied that the company's vehicles were any less safe than the institute's top-rated vehicles, adding that.

However, according to the IIHS, in recent years Volvo Personvagnar cars have still managed to maintain their high class safety ratings as seen in test results.

The second generation Volvo Personvagnar V40 got the best test result of any car model ever tested by Euro NCAP at the time.

In July 2017, Volvo Personvagnar announced that new models launched from 2019 onward would be fully electric or hybrid-electric, heralding the end of production of nearly a century of Volvo Personvagnar vehicles powered solely by the internal combustion engine.

Volvo Personvagnar will continue to produce non-electric, non-hybrid cars from models introduced before that year but will discontinue them once the non-hybrid, non-electric cars receive a facelift or complete redesign.

In 2019, Volvo Personvagnar announced that it plans to produce only electrified cars from the year 2040 onwards.

Volvo Personvagnar dropped the meaning of the final digit for later cars like the 740, but the digit continued to identify cars underhood on the identification plate.

When Volvo Personvagnar introduced the first generation S40 and V40 in 1995, they were announced as the S4 and F4.

Volvo Personvagnar agreed to add a second digit, so the vehicles became the S40 and F40.

In 2019, Volvo Personvagnar announced that it plans to produce only fully electrified cars from the year 2040 onwards.

In March 2021, Volvo Personvagnar doubled down on these plans and committed to being an electric-only car maker by 2030.

In 2005, Volvo Personvagnar introduced to the Swedish market the company's first E85 flexifuel models.

Volvo Personvagnar introduced its S40 and V50 with flexible-fuel engines, joined in late 2006 by the then new C30.

All Volvo Personvagnar models were initially restricted to the Swedish market, until 2007, when these three models were launched in eight new European markets.

Volvo Personvagnar ReCharge is a plug-in hybrid concept car with an all-electric range of 60 miles .

On 1 June 2009, Volvo Personvagnar announced the launching of series production diesel-electric plug-in hybrids by 2012.

Volvo Personvagnar C30 DRIVe Electric concept car was exhibited at the 2010 Paris Motor Show and Volvo Personvagnar announced that field testing will begin in 2011, in the US, Europe, and China.

Volvo Personvagnar uses in-line, or straight engines in their production vehicles.

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Volvo Personvagnar is known for the application of the in-line 5-cylinder engine to its vehicle line up since its introduction in 1991 in the Volvo Personvagnar 850.

In 1964, Volvo Personvagnar made heavy investments in the Safari Rally, entering four Volvo Personvagnar PV544s in the 1964 competition.

Volvo Personvagnar entered the European Touring Car Championship with the Volvo Personvagnar 240 Turbo in the 1980s.

In 1985, Volvo Personvagnar signed Swiss engine guru Ruedi Eggenberger to run its works team through Eggenberger Motorsport.

Volvo Personvagnar contracted Belgian based team RAS Sport to be its works team in the ETCC in 1986, following Eggenberger moving to race Ford Sierra's.

Volvo Personvagnar saw success in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, with a 240 Turbo driven by Per Stureson winning the 1985 DTM.

Volvo Personvagnar entered the British Touring Car Championship in the 1990s with Tom Walkinshaw Racing.

TWR then built and ran the works 850 Saloon, with six wins in 1995, and five wins in 1996, and a S40, with one win in 1997 in the BTCC, as well as Volvo Personvagnar placing third in the Manufacturers Championship, both in 1995 and 1996.

In 1998, TWR Volvo Personvagnar won the British Touring Car Championship with Rickard Rydell driving the S40R.

Volvo Personvagnar competed in the Super Touring category with the 850 across Europe and in Australia.

Volvo Personvagnar drove an 850 saloon in the 1996 Australian Super Touring Championship, placing sixth in the Drivers' Championship.

Volvo Personvagnar regularly entered the S60 in the Swedish Touring Car Championship, where it finished 2nd in the drivers' championship twice and won the manufacturers' title once.

In 2008, Volvo Personvagnar entered the Swedish Touring Car Championship with a C30 powered by bioethanol E85 fuel.

Volvo Personvagnar had signalled their intentions to enter the 2009 British Touring Car Championship with the same car.

Volvo Personvagnar entered the V8 Supercars Championship with two S60s in 2014 with Garry Rogers Motorsport, and were immediately competitive.

Volvo Personvagnar has, since the 1950s, had special international sales programs for customers assigned abroad, for example Diplomat Sales, Military Sales and Expat Sales.

In 2011, Volvo Personvagnar Cars is the main sponsor of the winter sports and music festival Snowbombing in Austria.

In 2015, Volvo Personvagnar signed a deal with Chennaiyin FC, a football franchise team of the Indian Super League as a side shirt sponsor.

In 1990, Volvo Personvagnar Cars filed a lawsuit against Hong Kong-based Club Volvo Personvagnar night club for infringement in Hong Kong High Court.

Since then, Club Volvo Personvagnar had been renamed to Club Borubo, and then Club Bboss .

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