Volvo, Stop Selling Cars Only Diesel or Gasoline within 2 Years
Volvo announced that by 2019 all cars in the line-up offer will have at least one electric motor, eliminating from production cars only internal combustion.
Every car produced and sold by Volvo from 2019 will have an electric motor, and this is not an indiscretion but a news announced and confirmed by the same company. The car manufacturer will only produce electric cars, hybrid plug-ins or hybrids, with the goal of being the first car maker to cease selling diesel or diesel vehicles alone: ” This announcement marks the end of internal combustion cars, ” says Håkan Samuelsson, Volvo’s CEO.
Only last week, Volvo shifted the focus of Polestar, the brand projected mainly to performance, to the development of electrical technology, but the newness emerged in recent times is certainly deeper especially if we consider the current situation of the manufacturer in relation to electric cars.
The brand does not have a ” full-EV ” vehicle only electric, and has only released some hybrid models to date. In 2015 it announced that the first electric cars would arrive in 2019, at the same time as the ” revolution, ” announced.
The company has scheduled the release of 5 EV models between 2019 and 2021, two of the Polestar division, and high performance, but three of them will be models that can be exploited by a wider and varied public.
These models will still be supported by diesel and gasoline engines in conjunction with the electric one, which can be deactivated if you want to use only electrical propulsion. In the lineup of the manufacturer, there will also be hybrids that will merge more on the thermal engine, using the electric only for energy saving in some fringes, such as braking.
Volvo is not the only European automotive manufacturer that is pushing for the electric revolution. Volkswagen also showed several conceptions of self-propelled solo electric cars and promised to sell around 3 million by 2025. Mercedes launched the EQ brand and promises its first EV crossover in 2019. It is still likely that the companies we have just mentioned will continue to sell and prefer for years still self-combustion.
Volvo has the need to innovate. After being sold in 2010 by Ford to Geely Holding, he faced hard times, although in 2016 the situation was re-established with a net profit of 880 million and the sale of 534,000 vehicles.
The company has built its first production plant in the US, employing 2,000 employees, which will begin delivering the first cars by 2018. The use of electric motors across the range will allow Volvo, according to the press release, environmental impact of its vehicles and their production by 2025.
