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Henning Larsen Architects continues its enthusiastic use of sustainable timber construction with a new experience center designed for automaker Volvo. World of Volvo takes the form of three tree trunks embedded into a heavily landscaped plot.

Just over two years ago, Volvo Trucks introduced the VNR Electric regional transport truck to the US market, and now the company has announced an enhanced version – with more per-charge range and faster charging.

Back In August we saw the world's very first "fossil-free" steel delivery makes its way to Volvo in Sweden, which the automaker has now fashioned into a mining lorry as a beacon of greener vehicle construction.

For the last year or so, Volvo CE has been field testing an ECR25 Electric compact excavator and a L25 Electric compact wheel loader on jobsites in Southern California, and is now reporting that they will go on sale in North America from next year.

Volvo’s big XC90 SUV seats seven, has lots of cargo space, and comes in various iterations. The T5 has a turbocharged four-cylinder and the T6 supercharged four, while the T8, now renamed the Recharge, has an impressive plug-in hybrid setup.

Volvo is laying out an ambitious calendar in moving toward becoming an all-electric premium car brand. As previewed by the new Concept Recharge, its next-gen electric vehicles will push for longer ranges, faster, bidirectional charging and more tech.

Renault Trucks is the latest manufacturer to lay out its electrification pledge: it'll have an electric option in every segment from 2023, aiming for 35 percent electric sales in 2030, and it'll ditch fossil fuels and decarbonize completely by 2040.

Volvo has launched a new battery-electric crossover, the C40 Recharge, which is the first Volvo ever designed to be electric-only. The automaker has also announced that all EV sales will move to an online platform.

After trundling out electric heavy machinery at a test quarry in 2018, Volvo has now sold its first all-electric construction industry vehicle in France. The compact electric excavator has been delivered along with the group's FE Electric truck.

Back in 2018, Volvo Trucks launched its first all-electric trucks, which went on sale the following year. Now the company has announced that they will be joined by three more models to form a complete range of heavy-duty electric trucks.

We’ve seen the likes of Nissan and Renault make moves to give their electric vehicle batteries a second life as energy storage devices, and now Volvo has revealed plans to do the same with the help of startup Batteryloop.

Waymo already has a number of partnerships in place with household names like Walmart and Jaguar. It can now add Volvo to that list, with the two forming an agreement to develop electric vehicles that can drive autonomously.