Volvo
Volvo is a Swedish car and truck maker founded in 1927. It has two parts:
- Volvo Cars (Swedish: Volvo personvagnar), which produces standard size cars, and was owned by the Ford Motor Company 1999 to 2010.
- Volvo Group, which produces trucks, boat engines, buses and more.
| Company type | Aktiebolag |
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| OMX: VOLV B | |
| Headquarters | Gothenburg, Sweden |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Products | Trucks, buses, construction equipment, marine and industrial engines, customer financing, insurance and related services, product related services |
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| Website | www |
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Volvo is now the leading producer in what most people would call safe family cars.
One of the Volvo's cars, the Volvo S60 is used by police departments in some parts of Europe and the United Kingdom.
In March 2010, Ford signed a deal to sell Volvo Cars to the Chinese automaker Geely for $1.8 billion.[2] Volvo cars has is making all of it's cars zero emission by the year 2030.[3]
Models
Volvo Media
The first Volvo car, a Volvo ÖV 4, left the assembly line on 14 April 1927.
Volvo excavator on construction site in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland
Volvo powertrain facilities in Skövde, pictured in 2010
Notes
- ↑ It includes financial information attributable to both AB Volvo proper and its consolidated and non-consolidated affiliates (such as subsidiaries and joint ventures), collectively known as the Volvo Group.
References
- ↑ Annual and Sustainability Report 2022AB Volvo. p. 4,43,46-47,67. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
- ↑ Nordstrom, Louise. Geely to buy Volvo from Ford for $1.8 billion. Retrieved 2010-03-29.[dead link]
- ↑ Robert Lea, ed. Volvo float to power move to electric cars. . https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/volvo-float-to-power-move-to-electric-cars-gqcgb0bqq. Retrieved 2022-04-09.