With experience as Volvo's performance arm, Polestar is now transitioning toward becoming an independent badge with its own lineup of electrified performance cars. This week, the company showed the first model that will bear its name: the sporty, 600-hp Polestar 1.
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Volvo has rounded out its SUV lineup with the chunky, compact XC40 SUV. It might look like a scaled-down version of the XC60 and XC90, but Volvo's smallest four-wheel drive has some big ideas of its own, including a novel new way to spec, buy and pay for the car.
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In case you weren't aware, the US will be experiencing a solar eclipse next week. There are plenty of ways to check it out, including using special glasses or via a pinhole projection. Now reclining in a car can be added to the list courtesy of the Volvo XC60 Panoramic Moonroof Eclipse Viewer.
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Groups responsible for maintaining roads – local govts and private road operators – have a part to play in bringing autonomous vehicles to the masses. A trial in Melbourne is out to understand how things like road signs, lane markings and road works impact current semi-autonomous driver assists.
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Volvo Trucks unveiled the new VNL heavy truck for over-the-road operations by boxing it up like a toy and letting a three year old boy open it up for a Guinness World Record. The unboxing may have been a slick publicity stunt, but the tech under the hood of this big machine is no gimmick.
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Hybrid power used to be associated with boring eco-minded driving, but the technology is evolving. Having announced plans to electrify its entire range by 2019, Volvo has unveiled a hot hybrid XC60. With more than 400 hp on tap, it's a family SUV to make hot hatches look slow.
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High-res cameras are essential to the active safety features popping up on modern cars, but it would appear they're good for more than accident avoidance. Volvo handed an XC60 to Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Barbara Davidson, and asked her to see what they can do.
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Luxury car brand Volvo has followed last year's aggressive EV sales target with a commitment to only launch electrified vehicles from 2019. The company hasn't totally given up on the combustion engine quite yet, but has said that no future Volvos will be ICE only.
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Sugar cane farmers have to be very careful when carting off their harvests to prevent the trucks destroying surrounding plants and soil. Volvo has been working on a self-driving solution to this problem and says it can save farmers big money in lost yields per season.
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Volvo Trucks has teamed with Swedish waste management company Renova to test an autonomous refuse truck in the wild. The self-driving garbage truck can navigate urban roadways as an operator walks alongside to feed it bins for garbage collection.
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