Volvo

Volvo is known for safety, but consistently delivers some of the more well-designed luxury vehicles in the American market as well. With the 2020 S60, Volvo has found a sweet spot that combines luxury, safety, and daily driveability in a small sedan.

Volvo welcomes a new era with the XC40 Recharge, its first fully electric vehicle. The 408-hp crossover marks the debut of the Recharge plug-in lineup and an era in which every customer will decide on owning a Volvo model with plug or without.

​​What would trucks look like if they didn’t need to accommodate a human driver? Volvo Trucks' Vera vehicle is an exploration of this idea and has just been assigned its first task delivering containers to a port terminal in Sweden. ​

​​Back in 2016, Uber and Volvo joined forces to usher in the self-driving era and they've now introduced the first production vehicle built to accommodate the self-driving tech from the ground up, making for a plug-and-play autonomous car that could help speed things up a little. ​

Singapore is intent on positioning itself at the vanguard of self-driving technologies. Now it is looking to ramp things up even further, rolling what it claims to be the world’s first full size, autonomous electric bus onto a university campus in partnership with Volvo.

For a while, Volvo has been developing technologies that will help towards its aim that no one will die or be seriously injured in a new Volvo by 2020. But technology can only go so far, and the firm is now broadening the scope of its safety initiative by imposing a speed limit on all its vehicles.

Volvo's Tesla-hunting electric offshoot Polestar has opened up a demonstration website for the user interface it plans to run on the upcoming Polestar 2. Based on Android, it'll include the Google Assistant, Google Play Store and whatever apps you like. Plus, it seems to want to be fun, too.

After spending a week with the new 2019 XC40, we came away impressed with Volvo’s attention to detail on this compact luxury crossover. The XC40 builds on the excellence of the larger XC60 and XC90 models, without downsizing their ergonomics for the compact market.

​​Volvo’s self-driving truck program has already opened up some interesting possibilities. And now the Swedish automaker is set to see how its robo-trucks fare in real-world scenarios, after inking its first commercial deal with a Norwegian resource company to cart limestone away from its mine. ​

​Those closely following the progress of Volvo’s electric vehicle spinoff Polestar may know it is the first time the Swedish automaker has explored carbon fiber construction. And part of that exploration is smashing cars to bits in crash tests.

After revealing its luxury hybrid grand tourer in October last year, Polestar is now starting to put the first pieces in place. The company announced today that it has kicked off production of the very first Polestar 1 verification prototypes, with customer models expected sometime in 2019.

Ever since Volvo revealed the V60 mid-size estate earlier this year, we've been eagerly awaiting the Cross Country version. Volvo made that muddy leap today, injecting a little more adventure into the 60 Series with the lifted, all-wheel-drive wagon.