Press releases 2006

Volvo Buses’ subsidiary in Canada, Nova Bus, has been selected as supplier of 322 articulated buses by the Province of Quebec`s transit authorities with deliveries in 2009-2012.

The Volvo Trucks cab factory in Umeå has received the local authority’s eco-award for 2006.

Volvo Trucks in the Netherlands has received an order for 200 trucks from Den Hartogh Liquid Logistics, a specialist in the transport of bulk liquids for the chemical industry in Europe.

Total deliveries of trucks from the Volvo Group’s three truck companies increased 3% through November this year, compared with the year-earlier period.

The Central-East European Region of Volvo Truck Corporation and Nissan Sales Central & Eastern Europe have agreed on conditions to enable the distribution of three of Nissan’s light commercial vehicles in Poland.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) has selected Volvo Aero to participate in the early development phase of the nozzles for the J-2X engine, destined for NASA’s new manned launcher ARES I, the successor of the current Space Shuttle.

The 2005/2006 Volvo Ocean Race reached more than 1.8 billion TV viewers worldwide, which is more than twice as many compared with the preceding race.

Semi-conductor material silicon carbide is one of the hottest substances today in the world of research into hybrid vehicles.

Volvo Buses has received an order for 110 Volvo B7R buses from Translink in Northern Ireland. The buses will be used as school buses and will be delivered for the start of school in September 2007.

Compact, fuel-efficient and with excellent load step performance are characteristics of the new Volvo Penta TWD1643GE diesel engine.