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Volvo Car AB, [2] trading as Volvo Cars (Swedish: Volvo personvagnar, styled VOLVO in the company's logo) is a Swedish multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles. Volvo is headquartered in Torslanda , Gothenburg .
The first truck, the "Series 1", debuted in January 1928, as an immediate success and attracted attention outside the country. [9] In 1930, Volvo sold 639 cars, [12] and the export of trucks to Europe started soon after; the cars did not become well known outside Sweden until after World War II. [12]
Volvo Buses (Volvo Bus Corporation; formal name: Volvo Bussar AB), stylized as VOLVO, is a subsidiary and a business area of the Swedish vehicle maker Volvo, which became an independent division in 1968. It is based in Gothenburg. It is one of the world's largest bus manufacturers, with a complete range of heavy buses for passenger transportation.
Transferred to Volvo Trucks and Volvo Penta: Torslanda Plant Volvo Cars Torslanda (VCT) YV1: 1: Torslanda, Sweden: 1962–present: Second Volvo Car plant: Manufacturing: XC60, V60, V60 Cross Country, V90, V90 Cross Country, XC90: Worldwide Debut model: Volvo Amazon: Dartmouth Plant: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada: 1963–1967 [2] First Volvo ...
It was the largest Volvo truck plant in the world, employing close to 3,000 people building multiple models of heavy-duty trucks. [17] On 20 June 2022, Volvo announced that "in the second part of this decade" it would begin making trucks using hydrogen fuel cells with a range of 600 miles, compared to 275 miles for the existing VNR trucks. [18]
The Volvo EX30 is a battery electric subcompact crossover SUV manufactured by Volvo Cars. [4] Revealed in June 2023, the EX30 is the smallest Volvo vehicle currently on sale, positioned below the XC40 and C40 crossovers.
The ratio illustrates the ease of accessibility to the country's coast from every point in its interior. Therefore, an island country like Maldives, or a country carved by the sea like Greece, is more likely to have a high ratio, while a landlocked country will have a ratio of zero. Note that the scales at which The World Factbook figures were ...
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved.Also included is additional data on road network density and the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.