Volvo Goal 2021 Concept

Volvo Goal 2021 Concept – Volvo Goal 2021

The Swedish automaker is slamming on the brakes on cartage powered alone by centralized agitation engines, advertisement that every car it makes from 2019 alee will accept an electric motor.

The move makes Chinese-owned Volvo the aboriginal acceptable carmaker to absolutely embrace electric and amalgam production.

“This advertisement marks the end of the alone agitation engine-powered car,” Volvo’s admiral Håkan Samuelsson said in a account Wednesday.

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Volvo said it would barrage bristles absolutely electric cars amid 2019 and 2021. Three of them will backpack the Volvo brand, and the added two will appear from the company’s high-performance assemblage Polestar.

The blow of Volvo’s agile will abide of either constituent amalgam cars or balmy amalgam cars, which amalgamate a gas agent with a battery.

Starting in 2019, Volvo will alone aftermath cars that accept some anatomy of electric motor — and no cars active absolutely on an centralized agitation engine.

The about-face is acceptable to accept been afflicted by Chinese auto aggregation Geely, which bought Volvo in 2010.

China has been abrupt to accept electric vehicles. The world’s second-largest economy, which is bedeviled by air pollution, wants 5 actor electric cars on its anchorage by 2020.

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More than bisected of the world’s electric cars are already awash in China, according to a address from the Center for Automotive Research at Germany’s University of Duisberg-Essen. In 2016, Chinese drivers bought 507,000 electric and constituent amalgam cartage out of 873,000 worldwide.

Volvo’s advertisement comes aloof weeks afterwards U.S. electric car close Tesla said it was alive with Shanghai admiral to authorize a accomplishment ability in the arena to bigger serve China.

“Tesla is acutely committed to the Chinese market,” Tesla said.