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Volvo EX30 Wins Prestigious 2025 Good Design Award

The Volvo EX30 continues to earn global recognition, adding the prestigious Good Design® Award 2025 to its growing list of honors. As Volvo Cars’ compact fully electric SUV, the EX30 combines modern Scandinavian design, innovative technology, and sustainability—making it an ideal choice for drivers in Portland and throughout Maine looking to make the switch to electric.

Categories: New Inventory, News, Technology

Volvo Cars Recognized as a World Leader in Software-Defined Vehicles

Volvo Cars has earned the highest possible ranking for software-defined vehicle (SDV) capabilities from S&P Global Mobility, becoming the only legacy automaker in the world to achieve Level 5 SDV capability.

Categories: New Inventory, News, Green, Technology, Social

Volvo Celebrates 70 years of the Seatbelt Saving Lives

Volvo Cars is celebrating 70 years of pioneering seatbelt technology this year with the debut of the world-first multi-adaptive seatbelt in the new EX60 model.

Categories: People, Technology, Car Culture

Volvo Cars is Expanding Production to Meet Strong EX60 Demand

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Barely a month after the car’s public reveal, nearly all major European markets are reporting retail orders considerably higher than internal forecasts. This includes over 3,000 orders in Sweden alone, helped by a new Care offer designed for simplicity, transparency and precision.

Categories: News, Green, Technology, Car Culture

Remembering Project Torquebot

There was a brief, curious moment in local automotive history when the future quietly arrived in the service department at Portland Volvo Cars.

Categories: News, Technology, Social

Volvo Cars Kicks Off Largest Over-the-Air Software Update in History

Volvo Cars is launching its largest over-the-air software update ever, as it rolls out a new, more intuitive user experience to millions of customers starting this week.

Categories: Technology

The Volvo EX60 Cross Country is Built to Do and See More

On the same day that Volvo Cars reveals the all-electric Volvo EX60 to the world, it also provides a first look at the EX60 in another flavor as it introduces the newest entry in its popular line-up of Cross Country models.

Categories: News, Green, Technology, Car Culture

The Car that Changes the Game - Meet the All-New Volvo EX60

Say hello to the Volvo EX60 – a new, all-electric mid-size SUV that changes the game in the largest electric market segment in terms of range, charging speed, performance and price.

Categories: News, Green, Technology, Car Culture

The Volvo 850 Turns 35

After presenting its first front-wheel drive Volvo model - the 480 - in 1985, Volvo Car Corporation continued its comprehensive product and production-technology transition with its next project, launched on June 11, 1991: the Volvo 850 GLT. The car with four world-firsts - one at the front, one at the rear and two in the middle.

Categories: Technology, Car Culture

The New, All-electric Volvo EX60, a Car You Can Have a Natural Conversation With

With the new and fully electric Volvo EX60, Volvo Cars is launching a car that you can talk to in a natural way. As the first Volvo to launch with Gemini, the new AI assistant from Google, customers can have a true natural conversation with the EX60, the company’s most intelligent and technologically advanced car to date.

Categories: News, Technology, Car Culture, Social

Portland Volvo Cars Blog

Volvo EX30 Wins Prestigious 2025 Good Design Award

Volvo Cars Recognized as a World Leader in Software-Defined Vehicles

Volvo Celebrates 70 years of the Seatbelt Saving Lives

Volvo Cars is Expanding Production to Meet Strong EX60 Demand

Remembering Project Torquebot

Volvo Cars Kicks Off Largest Over-the-Air Software Update in History

The Volvo EX60 Cross Country is Built to Do and See More

The Car that Changes the Game - Meet the All-New Volvo EX60

The Volvo 850 Turns 35

The New, All-electric Volvo EX60, a Car You Can Have a Natural Conversation With

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