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Volvo XC40 Wins Good Housekeeping 2020 Best New Family Car Award

The Volvo XC40 luxury SUV has been recognized as a 2020 Best New Family Car Award winner by editors at Good Housekeeping.

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Volvo Luxury Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Earns Top Spot, Plus Two More, in New AAA Car Guide

The 2020 Volvo S90 luxury plug-in hybrid electric vehicle has earned the top score and two other accolades from the AAA. AAA named the 2020 Volvo S90 T8 eAWD R-Design its Best Overall Vehicle, Best Large Vehicle, and Best Over $50,000 in the first edition of the newly released AAA Car Guide, a consumer resource on the latest and greatest in-vehicle technology. The guide can be viewed online here.

Categories: News, Green, Technology, Car Culture

Next Generation Volvo Cars to be Powered by Luminar LiDAR Technology for Safe Self-Driving

Volvo Cars, a global leader in automotive safety, is setting new safety and technology standards by partnering with tech firm Luminar to provide their industry-leading LiDAR and perception technology for Volvo’s next generation cars. The partnership will deliver Volvo’s first fully self-driving technology for highways and paves the way for future active safety developments.

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Volvo Cars Tech Fund Invests in Blockchain Technology Firm, Circulor

Volvo Cars has made an investment in blockchain technology firm Circulor through the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the company’s venture capital investment arm. Circulor and Volvo Cars have been working together in recent years on the implementation of blockchain technology to boost the traceability of cobalt used in the batteries of its electric cars.

Categories: News, People, Green, Technology

With COVID-19, Volvo Safety Now Starts in the Showroom

Luxury carmaker Volvo is taking safety to a new level by helping its retailers implement a stringent set of health protections in showrooms and service centers as coronavirus restrictions ease across the U.S.

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Car and Driver Names the 2020 XC40 an Editor's Choice

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The experts at Car and Driver have named the 2020 Volvo XC40 an Editor’s Choice, ranking it 5 out of 5. They mention its “fun and funky styling, refined interior, and technologically advanced features” as reasons for choosing it, concluding that the XC40 “exerts its personality without straying from the brand’s core values.”

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Volvo Cars Introduces Refreshed S90 and V90 models, Mild Hybrid Powertrains Across Entire Line-up

Volvo Cars today reveals refreshed versions of the S90 sedan and the V90/V90 Cross Country estate models, including a refined exterior design and a brand new, state-of-the-art sound system by Bowers and Wilkins.

Categories: News, Technology

Volvo V90 Projected to have the Lowest Ownership Cost

The 2020 Volvo V90 wagon has the lowest projected costs of any new luxury car for the first five years of ownership, according to Kelley Blue Book. The trusted automotive valuation and information source gave the car its 2020 5-Year Cost to Own Award today. Combined with a recent ALG Residual Value Award, the versatile V90 proves itself a smart new-car purchase and an attractive SUV alternative.

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Volvo XC90 Named a 2020 Best Luxury Car by Parents Magazine

Volvo’s large, seven-seat SUV and the company’s flagship, was named a 2020 Best Luxury Car by experts at Parents magazine. Click here to see what they had to say.

Categories: News, People, Technology

Happy Birthday, Volvo Cars!

On this day in 1927, the first Volvo rolled off the assembly line, but it wasn’t supposed to happen that way. When the first ÖV4 was about to drive out of the factory, a day earlier, engineer Eric Carlberg put it into first gear, but instead of going forward, the car lurched backwards...

Categories: News, People, Volvo Heritage, Technology, Car Culture

Portland Volvo Cars Blog

Volvo XC40 Wins Good Housekeeping 2020 Best New Family Car Award

Volvo Luxury Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Earns Top Spot, Plus Two More, in New AAA Car Guide

Next Generation Volvo Cars to be Powered by Luminar LiDAR Technology for Safe Self-Driving

Volvo Cars Tech Fund Invests in Blockchain Technology Firm, Circulor

With COVID-19, Volvo Safety Now Starts in the Showroom

Car and Driver Names the 2020 XC40 an Editor's Choice

Volvo Cars Introduces Refreshed S90 and V90 models, Mild Hybrid Powertrains Across Entire Line-up

Volvo V90 Projected to have the Lowest Ownership Cost

Volvo XC90 Named a 2020 Best Luxury Car by Parents Magazine

Happy Birthday, Volvo Cars!

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