Volvo Group - Report on 2011 operations

Total deliveries from the Volvo Group’s truck operations in January amounted to 15 647 vehicles. This was an increase of 2% compared with the year-earlier period.

Volvo Construction Equipment and Volvo Buses have joined the Volvo Group’s cooperation with WWF Climate Savers. The cooperation is based on the Volvo Group’s commitment to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 30 million tons from construction equipment, buses and trucks manufactured through 2014. Volvo’s joint-venture company, SDLG, which manufactures construction equipment in China, will also become the first-ever Chinese company to be a member of Climate Savers.

The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research has decided to award its scholarship for 2011 to Professor Annika Stensson Trigell of the Royal Institute of Technology. The scholarship, which amounts to SEK 250,000, will be presented to Annika Stensson Trigell for her scientific excellence in automotive dynamics, initiating and heading the transport platform at the Royal Institute of Technology and coordinating the Green Vehicle’s National University program in collaboration with the Swedish automotive industry.