During an event yesterday, the Volvo Group’s Mack Trucks subsidiary was recognized for delivering the first parallel-hybrid truck in the U.S. designed specifically for heavy-duty applications. The vehicle is a refuse collection truck that will be tested by the City of New York’s Department of Sanitation. As a result of the hybrid operation, in which [...]

This month’s new vehicle sales (including fleet sales) are expected to be 859,000 units, a 30.8 percent decrease from April 2008 and a 0.5 percent increase from March 2009, according to Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information.
April 2009 had 26 selling days, the same as last April 2008. [...]

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the most important lifesaving device in automotive safety: the 3-point seat belt. Patented in 1959, the three-point safety belt has saved more than one million lives and was introduced in the Volvo Amazon (120) and PV 544 in the Nordic markets. Volvo thus became the first car maker [...]

Volvo Buses has received order for 260 buses in India. Among these the city of Bangalore purchased an additional 140 Volvo 8400 city buses.
The customer in Bangalore, BMTC, already operates more than 300 Volvo (STO:VOLVA) (STO:VOLVB) buses in Bangalore and these buses have radically changed the view of what it is like to travel [...]

The agreement is a result of Smarteqs’ previous nomination as one of the preferred suppliers of antennas to the Volvo Group. The new GPS-antenna, tailored to parts of the Volvo Group, is based on Smarteqs newly developed platform, which has extremely low power consumption.
– Again we are able to conclude that our technical knowledge [...]

New York, Tuesday December 9th 2008- Ben Bernanke, current Federal Reserve Chairman, Henry Paulson, the Secretary of Treasury and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan are to become stress-balls instead of stress-heads, with the launch of www.squeezethebanker.com. Providing some unexpected relief to thousands of people ahead of the looming financial crisis.
Created by boutique agency CreativeFeed, [...]

Audyssey MultEQ Chosen by Volvo Cars to Develop the Next Generation of Audio Systems for Its Cars
Volvo Cars has chosen to use MultEQ, an innovative acoustical correction technology developed by Audyssey Labs, to calibrate new cars equipped with its top-of-the-line Premium Sound systems. MultEQ has earned many awards since its release and is now [...]

Volvo Buses has sold the body plant in Turku, Finland. The sale is part of the company’s efforts to enhance the efficiency of the European operations.
The plant in Turku produces bodies for the Volvo 9700 model. The Turku plant is the smallest plant within Volvo Buses, primarily producing for the Nordic markets. During 2007, [...]

London, 2nd October 2008 – SEO and online brand specialist LBi Netrank today announces it has been appointed by easyCar.com, the low cost, online car hire specialist, as part of its pan-European online strategy to improve the site’s search engine ranking in the UK and across Europe.
LBi Netrank was named as the retained agency [...]

September 24, 2008 – QSystem Monitor, the performance and application monitoring solution created by the IBM® i and System i™ specialists, CCSS, has helped logistics experts Nippon Express (USA) Inc to reduce downtime through vigilant monitoring of their important IBM WebSphere® MQ* environment. New York based Nippon Express rely heavily on the MQ application as [...]