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Automation

The future of automation is happening now.
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Electromobility

Electricity in focus.

1 000 000 connected customer assets

Innovation

Innovations within transportation will help shape the world we want to live in. Electromobility, automated driving and connected vehicles will allow for quieter, cleaner and safer societies to grow and prosper. For us in the Volvo Group, technology means the aspiration to move forward, constantly working together to improve and do better. It means creative and innovative thinking, evolutionary and revolutionary problem solving - all in order to reach our mission:

Driving prosperity through transport and infrastructure solutions.

   

10,000

Number of R&D employees

15

Number of countries where Volvo Group has R&D facilities

2,1

Billions of US Dollar spent on R&D during 2019.

Innovation news

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Press release 11/01/2021

Volvo Penta launches industry’s first fully integrated Assisted Docking System at CES

New Assisted Docking automation technology gives the captain a whole new level of control, taking another important step toward self-docking and easy boating....

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Press release 17/12/2020

Volvo Group begin customer deliveries of all-electric products

Launching a new generation of zero exhaust emissions products, leading French contractor Eiffage has taken delivery of an all-electric Volvo FE Electric truck and a Volvo ECR25 Electric compact excavator – becoming the first recipient of the products ...

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Press release 15/12/2020

H2Accelerate – new collaboration for zero emission hydrogen trucking at mass-market scale

Daimler Truck AG, IVECO, OMV, Shell and the Volvo Group today committed to work together to help create the conditions for the mass-market roll-out of hydrogen trucks in Europe....

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Meet our engineers

Gustav Carlsson - Product owner for the electromobility simulation team at GTT

Gustav cycled behind a refuse truck for nine hours

Meet Gustav Carlsson

Developing Volvo Trucks´ electromobility offering is sometimes hard work. We meet Gustav Carlsson, product owner for the electromobility simulation team at GTT, to find out more about the legwork that goes on behind the scenes.

Meet Gustav Carlsson
Christian Grante - Director at Emerging Technology at Volvo CE

Director Emerging Technology

Meet Christian Grante

Christian grante and his team at Volvo CE are tasked with looking into the future.Their aim is to discover new technology, investigate future trends and understand what is going on. An assignment that suits Christian perfectly.

“Technology is incredibly fun, so I have the coolest job in the Volvo Group,” he says.

Meet Christian Grante
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A global career developing the technology of tomorrow

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Listen to your city

Imagine a city without disturbing traffic noise. Experience the Volvo 7900 Electric Hybrid, a pioneering bus that leads the way in silent, clean and energy-saving performance. Discover what it can do for your city.

Explore Volvo Buses' Offer
Drone from the ROAR project helping refuse collecting robot find refuse bins

Drone to help refuse-collecting robot find refuse bins

Students from three universities have collaborated with the Volvo Group and the waste recycling company, Renova. The result is a robot that automatically collects and empties refuse bins. A drone on the roof of the refuse truck scans the area and helps the robot to find the bins.

Explore more about the ROAR project

Innovation highlights

Volvo demonstrates autonomous bus
Story 18/06/2018

Volvo demonstrates autonomous bus

Throughout the Volvo Ocean Race competition in Gothenburg, Sweden, the pioneering autonomous Volvo bus will be shown to specially invited guests. The prototype is based on Volvo’s commercially produced electric city bus, which has been modified for ...

3D printing the future for lighter engines
Story 05/03/2018

3D printing the future for lighter engines

A team of Volvo Group engineers from Renault Trucks in Lyon has succeeded in building and running an engine with some vital 3D-printed components. As a result they were able to reduce both the number of components in the engine and the weight by ...

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Press release 29/08/2018

Testing begins at world’s first ‘emission-free’ quarry

Today Volvo Construction Equipment and its customer Skanska began testing the viability of its Electric Site concept. The system, which incorporates electric and autonomous Volvo machines, will run in a real production environment for 10 weeks – ...

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Volvo Construction Equipment innovation site
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Volvo Penta innovation site
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Collaboration is key

We and our customers are facing societal challenges that becomes more and more complex and the pace with which we have to deliver becomes faster and faster. The complexity drives the need to collaborate to achieve sustainable solutions for the future.

Learn more about our partnerships
Volvo Concept Lab

Volvo Concept Lab

Volvo Concept Lab is a joint visionary communication platform for the Volvo Group and the Volvo Product Brand.

Volvo Concept Lab

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R&D milestones and innovations

One reason why the Volvo Group is still around after more or less 100 years is our ability to always be in the technology frontline in our industry. See our history of inventions.

R&D milestones and innovations
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Materials Technology

Volvo Materials Technology is a department of specialists in the field of applied material science and technology, which assists the Volvo Group, Volvo Cars and other external customers.

Materials Technology
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Image galleries

If you need pictures or films from our different truck brands and business areas, here you’ll find them.

Image galleries
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Automation

We believe that automation will redefine the commercial transport solutions that most of us rely on every day.

Automation
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Electromobility

Electromobility is changing the automotive world and in the near future it will also change how we plan our cities and infrastructure.

Electromobility
Innovation - Connectivity

Connectivity

Volvo Group has the industry’s broadest customer offering of connectivity solutions for trucks, buses and construction equipment.

Connectivity