The Volvo XC90 – Volvo’s biggest SUV – could get a hydrogen fuel cell range-extender to ensure the battery on its hybrid models is always at full charge. It seems we’re about enter an era where battery electric vehicles actually become proper alternatives to ICE cars. But what of hydrogen fuel cell powered cars? Hydrogen […]
Volvo Drive Me Autonomous Project FINALLY starts testing with real users
The Volvo Drive Me project to develop autonomous technology finally moves in to the hands of real users as the project’s XC90s head for families in Sweden. It’s four years since we learnt the Volvo Drive Me project was planned to develop Volvo’s autonomous driving technology by harnessing real world data from real world users […]
More than 20,000 Self-Driving Volvo XC90s heading for UBER
Volvo has done a deal with taxi firm Uber to supply tens of thousands of autonomous driving-compatible XC90 SUVs between 2019 and 2021. As well as developing their own autonomous self-driving cars, Volvo are keen to be in the heart of the mobility shift self-driving technology will bring. So last year Volvo partnered with Uber […]
Volvo XC90 will be built at Volvo’s new Plant in the USA from 2021
Volvo has announced its new Plant in the USA will be expanded to build the next generation XC90 from 2021, as well as the current S90 from 2018. Volvo is on a roll with its new generation of cars, from the XC90 kicking off proceedings in 2014 followed by the new S90 and V90, the […]
Volvo XC90 made in India – well, bolted together from Volvo CKD kits for the local market
The Volvo XC90 will be the first Volvo to be produced in India, with Volvo planning local assembly from CKD kits in Hoskote, near Bangalore, later this year. Volvo’s new scalable product architecture has already catapulted Volvo from ‘almost premium’ to ‘proper premium’, first with the new 90 Series cars – XC90, V90 and S90 – […]
Volvo XC90 Uber SELF-DRIVING cars hit the streets of San Francisco
Uber is continuing to roll out its self-driving pilot scheme with the Volvo XC90 fitted with Uber’s autonomous technology now hitting the streets of San Francisco. Back in August we revealed that Volvo and Uber were joining forces to work on autonomous driving (AD) technology, with Volvo supplying XC90s for Uber to fit their own […]
Volvo XC90 will be the BIGGEST selling large premium SUV in Europe in 2016
[nggallery id=2364 template=customlinks] The Volvo XC90 is on track to be the biggest selling large premium SUV in Europe in 2016, as its sales rise by 163% and it overtakes the BMW X5. Volvo has had the best-selling mid-size SUV in Europe with the XC60 for years, but however good the old XC90 was it […]
Volvo is the TECH Brand of the Year – and the XC90 has ‘the most user friendly tech’
Volvo has been declared the Tech Brand of the Year in the inaugural Car Tech Awards, with the XC90 also declared to have the most friendly tech. Volvo has won endless awards and plaudits for its new 90 Series range – XC90, S90 and V90 – since it started to rollout with the new XC90’s […]
First Volvo XC90 for Volvo’s Drive Me autonomous driving experiment built in Torslanda
The first Volvo XC90 joining Volvo’s autonomous driving experiment, Drive Me, has been built in Sweden before heading for a real family for the trials. Volvo has made a big deal of having no deaths or serious injuries in a new Volvo by 2020, and frankly the only way that is possible is by taking […]
Volvo XC90 is Uber’s autonomous taxi in an Uber and Volvo Joint Venture
A joint venture between taxi App firm Uber and Volvo will see autonomous Volvo XC90s on the streets of Pittsburgh before the end of August 2016. The ride-sharing firm Uber – the bane of traditional taxi drivers – is so successful it’s awash with money, and a big chunk of its money has gone on developing […]