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How can Hyper Island help organizations to monitor, prevent, reduce, or offset greenhouse gas emissions for goods transport with true transparency? This fully-loaded question is the latest challenge for Hyper Island students to tackle, with the opportunity provided by the unique partnership between Hyper Island and Volvo Group. Read on to find out more about how the partnership is working towards leading the change of tomorrow, today.

Managing diverse abilities in the workplace – an employee’s advice on what managers and teams should know.

To help accelerate battery development, the Volvo Group is investing heavily in its in-house testing capabilities for electric drivelines. Ylva Olofsson is overseeing the company’s new climate lab for batteries. “Electromobility is taking off at a very high speed, and here you feel that are right in the middle of it,” she says.

This year’s POLIS conference will be held in Gothenburg, on Sweden’s west coast. POLIS is a network of European cities and regions who come together to develop innovative technologies and policies for local transport – and the 2021 Annual Conference sees delegates arriving from a host of forward-thinking destinations and European green capitals, aiming to make a difference to the future of transportation.

The transformation that is underway within the transport industry is powered by the rapid technical development of connected, autonomous and electric vehicles. But increased connectivity often results in a heightened risk of cybersecurity attacks. Volvo and Upstream Security are collaborating to create even safer connections.

Roughly half of the emission reductions needed to reach the 2050 climate goals rely on technologies in early development, demonstration, or prototype phases.  Accelerating innovation in this decade is critical to bring these technologies to market and make them cost-competitive. To jumpstart this effort, the World Economic Forum, in partnership with US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, announced the First Movers Coalition - a new platform for companies to make purchasing commitments that create market demand for low carbon technologies. Volvo Group joins the Coalition as founding member.

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Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Holcim Switzerland have partnered to jointly test and further develop the use of autonomous electric haulers in a limestone quarry. The two companies are dedicated to seeking infrastructure and transport solutions that are safe, efficient, innovative and sustainable.

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The world’s leaders have come together for two weeks in November at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, COP26. Among the thousands of delegates are four representatives of the Volvo Group.

Paul Anastas, a Yale professor and pioneer in developing non-hazardous chemicals, wins the 2021 Volvo Environment Prize, one of the world’s most respected scientific environmental awards. The research of Paul Anastas "is revolutionizing the chemical industry, a key contribution to meeting the sustainability challenge," says the Prize Jury.

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This fully autonomous, battery-electric prototype by Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is the first real-world example of a self-learning concept wheel loader with the brains to make decisions, perform tasks, and interact with humans. It is also the first time ever a LEGO® Technic model has been turned into a real machine. While not commercially available, engineers expect that valuable insights from the LX03 will feed into applications for today and tomorrow.

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