Press releases 2009

In connection with the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, the Volvo Group unveiled Commute Greener, a service which transforms your mobile phone into a personal CO2 calculator with connections to Social Networks like Facebook. People world-wide have already started using the service and are competing to reduce CO2 emissions. The most frequent CO2 reduction target set by the users is 20%, which is equivalent to changing your commuting behaviour during one working day per week.

Total deliveries from the Volvo Group’s truck operations in November amounted to 12,175 vehicles. This was a decrease of 37% compared with the year-earlier period. Compared with October this year, the decrease was 7%.

In a move to improve the competitiveness and overall industrial efficiency of Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE), the company has decided to consolidate its North American industrial operations by removing excess industrial capacity in the Americas.

Volvo Technology Transfer’s subsidiary Terracastus Technologies has signed a Letter of Intent with Nordvästra Skånes Renhållningsbolag (NSR) to establish a joint company for upgrading biogas to a liquefied biogas (LBG). This upgrading venture will enable NSR’s plant in Helsingborg to reduce its annual carbon emissions by 40,000 tons, compared with using diesel fuel.

ChromoGenics, the Swedish developer and manufacturer of smart sun blocking windows for vehicles and buildings, will demonstrate its technology in connection with the UN climate change conference COP 15 in Copenhagen in December. Volvo Technology Transfer is one of the investors behind ChromoGenics.

Volvo Buses has received an order for 145 bus chassis for Jamaica. The buses will be used as part of the Jamaican government’s initiative to improve the urban transport system in Kingston.

On November 17 Talon Logistics, Inc. USA, took delivery of its first EPA2010-certified trucks from Volvo Trucks in North America, with two more delivered since. Talon to date has ordered a total of 23 EPA’10 Volvo VN Daycabs for its fleet.

Reduce your carbon emissions – with the Volvo Group’s personal CO2-counter Commute Greener. Commute Greener is accessed through a mobile phone or a web site on the internet, enabling the user quickly to see by how much carbon dioxide emissions are reduced or increased using different means of transportations, for example bus, car, car pooling or bike. Volvo´s home town, the City of Göteborg in Sweden, is the first city in the world to order the service for its employees.

Volvo and Mack are the first truck manufacturers to have their engines certified by the U S Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board as meeting upcoming 2010 diesel emissions standards, the most stringent in the world.

Total deliveries from the Volvo Group’s truck operations in October amounted to 13,050 vehicles. This was a decrease of 41% compared with the year-earlier period. At the same time, the majority of the truck operations have noted an increase of deliveries in October, compared with September this year. For the Volvo Group in total, the increase was 12% compared with September this year.