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The Volvo Group to launch natural gas engine for the North American market

5/21/2012 5:25 AM EST
The Volvo Group will launch a 13-liter liquefied natural gas (LNG) engine within the Volvo brand for the North American market 2014. The engine’s high pressure diesel ignition technology will provide significant fuel efficiency gains compared with current natural gas products.
Combined with the group’s previously announced offering of compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered Volvo VNM and Volvo VNL model daycabs,...

Truck deliveries in April 2012

5/16/2012 2:30 AM EST
Total deliveries from the Volvo Group’s truck operations in April amounted to 18 497 vehicles. This was a decrease of 4% compared with the year-earlier period.
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Total deliveries by market for all brands (Volvo, Mack, Renault, UD and Eicher):

Delivered Units April Change Year-to-date Change
Volvo Group 2012 2011   2012 2011
Europe 6 776 8 723 -22% 26 772 31 783 -16%
   Western Europe 5 099 7 018...

Volvo Group to supply engines to airport fire-fighting vehicles

5/15/2012 4:00 AM EST
Volvo Penta is to supply engines for a number of airport fire-fighting vehicles from the company Rosenbauer. This entails a strengthening of the Volvo Group’s cooperation with Rosenbauer, which already builds conventional fire trucks using chassis from Volvo Trucks.
The new agreement applies to the delivery of more than 100 16-liter diesel engines per year. They will be fitted into such specially built,...

Helena Carén to receive the Assar Gabrielsson award for research that resulted i...

5/8/2012 7:00 AM EST
Helena Carén has studied genetic abberations in tumors and will receive the prize of SEK 50,000 for her thesis at the University of Gothenburg. Her analysis method is currently being used to find the right treatment for children in Sweden suffering from neuroblastoma, the aggressive cancer form found in children.
Neuroblastom appears in the nervous system and is one of the most common tumor diseases in...
Kerstin Renard
 

AB Volvo to finance studies at Chalmers University of Technology for young peopl...

5/4/2012 6:00 AM EST
To secure its competence sourcing, AB Volvo is entering into a new partnership with selected universities in such countries as China, France and Sweden. The initiative in Sweden encompasses a scholarship program, among other aspects. Every year, AB Volvo will pay for tuition at Chalmers University of Technology for four new Master’s students from China and India.
The scholarships from AB Volvo will cover...

New number of votes in AB Volvo

4/30/2012 1:30 AM EST
The number of votes in AB Volvo has changed due to the conversion of a total of 11,000 Series A shares to a total of 11,000 Series B shares. The conversions were implemented with the support of the opportunity for Series A shareholders to request conversion of Series A shares to Series B shares, which was entered in the Articles of Association at the 2011 Annual General Meeting.

Volvo Group – Report on the first quarter 2012

4/26/2012 1:25 AM EST
During the first quarter of 2012, the Volvo Group’s sales development continued to be strong. Net sales rose by 10% to SEK 78.8 billion and was the highest so far for a first quarter. The operating income of SEK 6.2 billion was on par with the year-earlier period, adjusted for the nonrecurring items that impacted the first quarter of both this year and last year.

 

· In the first quarter, net sales increased by...

Invitation to press and tele conference in Stockholm

4/17/2012 5:00 AM EST
AB Volvo hereby invites the media to a press conference on April 26 2012 in conjunction with the release of the Volvo Group on the first quarter 2012. The press conference will take place 09:00 at Tändstickspalatset in Stockholm.
Press conference, 09:00 AM CET

The press conference will begin at 09.00 AM CET and will be held at Tändstickspalatset, V Trädgårdsgatan 15 inStockholm.

The report is scheduled to be...

Unfavorable court ruling in the US pertaining to Volvo Penta engines of model ye...

4/16/2012 1:30 AM EST
Volvo Powertrain Corporation and the US Environmental Protection Agency are in a dispute pertaining to emission compliance of 8,354 model year 2005 Volvo Penta engines under a 1999 Consent Decree entered between the parties. On April 13, 2012, the US District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order directing Volvo to pay a total of USD $72,006,337 in penalties and interest. The decision will be...

The same car in the same place – but 85 years later

4/13/2012 4:00 AM EST
On 14 April 1927, the first mass-produced Volvo car rolled off the production line at the Lundby factory in Göteborg. Now, 85 years later, the Volvo Group is one of the world's largest manufacturers of commercial vehicles and Volvo Car Corporation sells almost 500,000 cars each year.
At 10 in the morning on 14 April 1927, sales manager Hilmer Johansson drove the first mass-produced ÖV4 model through the factory...

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