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Volvo Cars and POC Develop Car-bike Helmet Crash Test
Volvo
Cars, a leader in automotive safety, is teaming up with top Swedish
sports and safety brand POC for a series of world-first crash tests of
bike helmets against cars as part of a groundbreaking new research
project that aims to further protect cyclists.
XC60 Wins Edmunds Best Small Luxury SUV
Edmunds
has gathered their picks for the top family car in multiple styles:
sedan, SUV, minivan and truck, and the
2019 XC60 has earned the #1 spot for the Best Small Luxury SUV!
Volvo Cars Tech Fund Invests in UVeye and MDGo Start-ups
Volvo Cars has invested recently in two promising Israeli technology start-ups through the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the company’s venture capital investment arm.
Volvo Car USA Launches Post-Accident Guidance Service
Volvo Car drivers will now have help at their fingertips in the minutes following an accident, via their smartphones.
Volvo Cars Introduces Care Key as Standard on all Cars for Safe Car Sharing
Volvo
Cars continues to find new ways of keeping drivers safe, recently
revealing the Care Key, which allows any Volvo buyer to set a speed
limit for themselves, their family members or friends. The Care Key
will come as standard on all Volvo cars from model year 2021.
Volvo Cars is Sharing its own Research on Safety with the World
Volvo Cars is for the first
time making its safety knowledge easily accessible in a central digital
library, which it urges the car industry to use, in the interest of
safer roads for all.
Volvo Adds 415-hp Plug-In Hybrid SUV and Wagon to its 2020 Lineup
Volvo Car
USA is adding 415 horsepower plug-in hybrid electric variants of its
award-winning XC60 mid-sized SUV and all-new V60 mid-sized wagon to the
2020 line-up...
Volvo Cars to Deploy In-Car Cameras and Intervention Against Intoxication and Distraction
On March 20, Volvo Cars revealed a new step in its ambitions to end fatalities in its cars by addressing the issues of intoxication and distraction.
The 3-Point Safety Belt - The Most Effective Lifesaver in Traffic for Sixty Years
Few people
have saved as many lives as Nils Bohlin - the Volvo engineer who in
1959 invented the V-type three-point safety belt. The design was as
obvious as it was intelligent, and perfectly suited to the seat
occupant's body. To this very day, the safety belt provides the most
effective protection in the event of an accident.