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Volvo Range Undergoes Major Design Revisions
The majority of models within Volvo’s current range have been revamped, the Scandinavian car maker has announced. Changes including exterior design revisions as well as performance-related...
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Volvo and Geely to Set Up Joint R&D Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden
Volvo and Geely are set to establish a Research and Development Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Centre will develop a new modular architecture and set of components for future C-segment cars,...
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Volvo Develops Lighting Technology for Safer Nighttime Driving
The new Volvo S60, V60 and XC60 – to be shown to the public for the first time at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show – can be fitted with an innovation that makes driving in the dark safer and more...
View ArticleVolvo Reveals World-First Cyclist Detection System
Volvo has introduced a newly designed safety feature that detects and automatically brakes for cyclists swerving out in front of a car. The new functionality is an enhancement of the present detection...
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Volvo Trucks Wins ‘red dot’ Product Design Award
The new Volvo FH from Volvo Trucks has won a red dot product design award – an internationally recognized quality label for design achievement and one of the world’s most sought-after seals of design...
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Robin Page Joins Volvo as Head Interior Designer
Volvo’s design team is expanding with a new member: Robin Page, formerly head of interior design at Bentley Motors, has joined Volvo Cars as Design Director Interior. Before joining Volvo, Briton...
View ArticleAuto Shanghai 2013: Geely Emgrand KC Concept
Volvo’s parent company Geely used the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show as an opportunity to reveal its new Emgrand concept car. The KC Concept is a product of the first joint project by Geely’s recently...
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Volvo Cars’ Safety Design Wins Global NCAP Innovation Award
Volvo Car Group’s work on pedestrian protection has been rewarded with the 2013 Global NCAP Innovation Award. The prize was received by Prof. Lotta Jakobsson, Senior Technical Specialist Safety at...
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Volvo Develops Autonomous Parking Concept Car
Volvo has developed a new concept car that is capable of autonomous parking. The car, which will be demonstrated at a media event next week, finds and parks in a vacant space by itself, without the...
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Volvo: The Roads of Tomorrow Will Be Electric – Just Like Scalextric
Consider a future where trucks and buses are continuously supplied with electric power without carrying large batteries. Instead, power lines are built into the surface of the road. According to...
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Volvo’s New Connectivity System Wins ‘red dot’ Design Award
A jury of international designers and design experts has awarded Volvo’s new connectivity system Sensus Connected Touch a 2013 red dot Design Award. Sensus Connected Touch includes the world’s first...
View ArticleCar Body Panels That Function as Batteries – Volvo Demos New Nano Technology
Are conventional batteries a thing of the past? Volvo thinks the answer to that question might be “yes!” The Swedish car-maker’s engineers have developed a new concept for lightweight structural energy...
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Volvo Experimenting with Contactless Charging Technology
Volvo has been a partner in an advanced research project that has studied the possibilities of inductive charging for electric vehicles – and the results show that this technology for transferring...
View ArticleVolvo Designs New Chassis Specially for Police Cars
Following the development of a special, new chassis for police cars, Volvo is now actively targeting a significant increase of its sales of police cars around the globe. The qualities of the new...
View ArticleCan Science Measure How Car Design Makes You Feel?
The first scientific experiment of its kind has revealed that beautiful car design can tangibly evoke a powerful range of feelings that are possibly on a par with the most basic of human emotions. The...
View ArticleVolvo to Reveal New ‘XC Coupé’ Concept at Detroit Motor Show
Volvo’s Concept Coupé, which was launched back in September, gave the first insight into Volvo Cars’ new design direction under Senior Vice President of Design, Thomas Ingenlath. It also showed just...
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Volvo Aiming to Design Safer Cars with New Product Architecture
Volvo is claiming the design of its new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) will enable the company to achieve the aim that, by the year 2020, no one should be killed or seriously injured in a new...
View ArticleVolvo Exploring New Safety and Design Ideas
Volvo has established a partnership with the Swedish company POC, which develops high-tech protective gear for extreme sports athletes. The two companies will exchange knowledge in order to explore new...
View ArticleVolvo Unveils ‘Concept XC Coupé’
The second of Volvo’s three concept cars is the new Concept XC Coupé. Said to be inspired by the design of modern sports equipment and demonstrating the company’s new Scalable Product Architecture...
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Volvo Concept XC Coupé Wins ’Best Concept Car’ Award at 2014 Detroit Motor Show
The Volvo Concept XC Coupé won two design awards this week, which is perhaps a positive sign for Volvo Car Group’s (Volvo Cars) new design language. The XC Coupe was awarded the title “Best Concept...
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