Corporate news 2011

Between 2006 and 2010, emissions of carbon dioxide from the Volvo Group’s transportation of goods and products in Europe was reduced by 22 percent, measured as the average number of grams of carbon dioxide per ton per kilometer. This is one of the findings revealed in a report from Volvo Logistics, the Volvo Group’s logistics company, which develops and purchases transportation solutions. The report is a summary of the work that began in 2008 when Volvo Trucks and Volvo Logistics challenged its transportation suppliers. The reduction also includes transportation for Volvo Car Corporation.

Since May, Volvo Penta’s engine plant in Vara in Sweden has been powered without using any fossil fuel whatsoever. As a result, the plant is now operated completely carbon neutral.

Before Volvo Trucks releases a new model onto the market, the vehicle always undergoes a rigorous crash-test programme. The Volvo FE Hybrid is no exception. With its 578 kg battery pack, it presents the crash-test engineers with new challenges.

After playing 108 holes against many of golf’s best players, Ian Poulter emerged as the winner of the Volvo World Match Play Championship 2011.

With TV broadcasts in 162 countries and more than 500 million viewers, the Volvo World Match Play Championship 2011 gets under way today. Yesterday Volvo’s customers had the opportunity to play together with the world’s top golfers.

Volvo has developed a system that aims at solving the problem of the truck driver’s blind spot on the passenger side. The results of the research will be demonstrated today in the Intersafe 2 EU project in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Volvo Trucks is now taking yet another step towards reducing its customers’ fuel costs. A new rear axle for fast, heavy long-haul operations cuts fuel consumption by up to two percent compared with today’s hub-reduction axles.

Volvo Trucks has a long tradition of working with traffic safety. Through innovative solutions, the company strives constantly to improve safety in and around the truck. Among the most vulnerable road users are those that the truck driver has difficulty seeing in what is known as the “blind spot”. Sweden’s Volvo Trucks is tackling this problem at every level, for example by means of new technology and public traffic education.

Volvo Trucks is launching a campaign to increase knowledge about fuel-efficiency. “Fuel consumption can be significantly reduced via relatively simple measures. Lower fuel consumption is good for our customers and good for the environment, and that’s a message we want to make sure gets through,” says the company’s President and CEO Staffan Jufors.

Volvo Group participates at the Automobile Industry Exhibition (Auto Shanghai 2011), from April 21 to 28, to demonstrate pioneering sustainable transportation solutions. The 800-square-meter booth exhibits Trucks under several brands, including Volvo, Renault, DND together with Volvo City buses and coaches, as well as engines from Volvo Powertrain.