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Volvo Announces Their Cars Are Going Fully-Electric by 2030
With the UK government recently confirming plans to require all new car sales to be fully-electric by 2030, this is clearly going to require quite a significant overhaul for most major manufacturers who currently retail (or developer) their various models in the country. It seems, however, that a surprising number…
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Volvo All-Electric Ready for 2019 Packing 100kWh Battery
Swedish vehicle manufacturer Volvo has reaffirmed their commitment to fully electrify their vehicle lineup, announcing recently at the SAE 2017 Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium in San Diego that their first all-electric will be rolling off in 2019 and its a platform that could support 100kWh batteries. This will…
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Uber Teams Up With Volvo to Give Driver Free Rides
Driverless cars are all the hit. The ability to get into your car and tell it that you want to go to work, only to then find it drive away without you ever pressing a pedal. Now it looks like the Volvo is going to help the ride-sharing app Uber achieve…
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Tesla’s Autopilot Called a ‘Wannabe’ by Volvo Autonomous Car Engineer
There is a lot of competition when it comes to autonomous cars, countless companies are all vying to provide the best self-driving vehicle possible. Tesla may have an edge over many of their rivals, however, as while it is not currently completely autonomous, their Autopilot system is already included in…
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Volvo ROAR is an Automated Bin!
Volvo is known for their safe cars, my own family has the saying that Volvo’s are the people’s tanks. They are known for other things and soon they could be the ones responsible for your bins thanks to ROAR. ROAR (RObot based Autonomous Refuse handling) is designed to help those…
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Volvo Pledges Their Cars Will be Deathproof by 2020
Safety in a car is important, as is made clear when you see new cars marketed with their safety ratings proudly on show. Volvo has now gone one step bolder than their rivals, with their North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, telling CNN that their complete lineup of cars and SUVs will…
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Automotive Companies Choose Microsoft At CES
The Automotive industry is an avenue with which tech companies are always striving to exploit, from self-driving cars, clever Sat Nav that manages to avoid rivers to the self-aware AI system that has become ubiquitous for many branded vehicles. Now, four further automotive companies have announced partnerships with Microsoft with…
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Volvo Is Testing In-Car Delivery System
Do you remember back in April Amazon announced plans to make deliveries to the boot of your car? No? Well, it seems nothing has come of it yet, so Volvo has taken the reigns with Swedish postal company PostNord to offer this system in Sweden. Try and think of all…
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Volvo Team Up With Microsoft to Make Hololens Showrooms
The days of Volvo showrooms being packed with cars for potential buyers to wander around and look at could soon be over. This new partnership between the Swedish car manufacturer and Microsoft aims to equip Volvo showrooms with Microsoft’s new Hololens headsets, shifting the contents of the showrooms from physical…
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Volvo to Accept Blame in Event of an Accident
Well in the case of the autonomous cars anyway. Up until now, the only company to come forward with a fully working prototype is Google and the accidents that occurred were never blamed on the company, rather the external parameters such as traffic and pedestrians. It has now come to…
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Car Companies Tried To Silence Rather Than Fix Electronic Car Lock Hack
When walking home from work you notice that your neighbours front window is open. You realise that someone could pop in, grab their stuff and leave without anyone noticing so you go knock on their door and tell them. What happens next surprises you though, as your neighbour shouts at…
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Volvo Self-Park System Runs Over Pedestrian
A new video has gone viral the past weeks showing what appears to be a major fail from Volvo’s self-park system, but as it seems neither the car nor the technology was at fault. Instead it was, as with pretty much any accident, most likely the fault of the driver.…
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Delphi Corp’s Audi Q5 Completes 3400 Mile Autonomous Road Trip
Following on from the news we brought you two weeks ago, The Audi Q5, equipped with Delphi Corp’s radar, cameras and laser sensors, has completed its epic 15-state, 3400 miles road trip from San Francisco to New York. The car mostly stuck to travelling on the various highways between the…
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Volvo Takes a Left for Bicycle Safety
Volvo, long known for being at the forefront of automotive safety has focused its attention on bicycle safety. The Swedish auto company teamed up with Albedo100 and UK design firm Grey London to create temporary spray paint that is only visible at night. Managing director at Volvo Car UK, Nick…
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Volvo Cars Will Be Able to Talk to Each Other in the near Future
Have you ever thought that cars can talk to one another? If not, prepare to be amazed. Volvo apparently is working on a new technology which allows their cars to “talk to each other” in real-time, delivering warnings to drivers about black ice conditions or disabled vehicles on the road.…
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