Volvo


Volvo is a Swedish car and truck maker founded in 1927. It has the following two divisions:

  • 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.
AB Volvo
Aktiebolag
Traded asOMXVOLV B
ISIN[https://isin.toolforge.org/?language=en&isin=SE0000115446 SE0000115446]
IndustryAutomotive
Founded1927; 97 years ago (1927)
FoundersAssar Gabrielsson and Gustav Larson
HeadquartersGothenburg, Sweden
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
ProductsTrucks, buses, construction equipment, marine and industrial engines, customer financing, insurance and related services, product related services
Brands
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Owners
  • AB Industrivärden (8.9%; 27.8% votes)
  • Geely (8.2%; 16.0% votes)
Number of employees
Increase 102,155 (2022)
Subsidiaries
Websitewww.volvogroup.com
Footnotes / references
[1][note 1]


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

References

  1. "Annual and Sustainability Report 2022" (PDF). AB Volvo. pp. 4, 43, 46–47, 67. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  2. Nordstrom, Louise. "Geely to buy Volvo from Ford for $1.8 billion". Retrieved 29 March 2010.[dead link]
  3. Robert Lea, ed. Volvo float to power move to electric cars. ISSN 0140-0460 . https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/volvo-float-to-power-move-to-electric-cars-gqcgb0bqq. Retrieved 2022-04-09. 



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