Business Volvo plans to go all-electric, sets a goal to make 1 million electric cars by 2025

https://www.yahoo.com/news/volvo-plans-electric-sets-goal-180415496.html ^ | Fri, Apr 22 11:04 AM PDT | Bruce Brown,

[ckilmer]

Volvo is making a huge commitment to electric cars. Today, The Swedish car manufacturer put quantities and dates on goals it first published in its Volvo Cars Sustainability Report 2015. Volvo said that it will make one million electric cars by 2025 in a press release.

[Secret Agent Man]

They did not say they all would work.

/s

[dp0622]

Sweden has bigger problems that what cars they’re going to put out.

It might not be called Volvo by then. Maybe Akbar, or something along those lines.

[Spktyr]

Volvo Cars isn’t the Volvo of old, despite their claims to the contrary. They’re currently owned by Geely of China.

Volvo Trucks is still based in Sweden, for now.

[litehaus]

It might not be called Volvo by then. Maybe Akbar, or something along those lines.

Nah, they’re gonna buy the volt from GM....

[litehaus]

It might not be called Volvo by then. Maybe Akbar, or something along those lines.

Nah, they’re gonna buy the volt from GM....

[Balding_Eagle]

I don’t doubt Volvo can build a million by then.

Selling them, or even giving them away...........might be a different thing.

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

Volvo is making a huge commitment to bankruptcy.

[himno hero]

Exactly.
Hydro carbons are still the path way until the professor gives up his patented flux capacitor.
OR China works out the thorium problems.

We do know that solar and wind turbines are not effective, even when oil is at 120 a barrel.

[P-Marlowe]

Sell Short!

[SteveH]

I used to be a volvo fan. However, I can no longer get my 1997 volvo fixed because it was not well designed and the parts are not made any more.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, isn’t that special!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Volvo plans to go all-electric, sets a goal to make 1 million electric cars by 2025

Yeah, Maine will probably get every one of them.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We had an '86 Volvo 740 Sedan and an '88 Volvo 740 Wagon. Great handling, braking and power. HORRIBLE reliability and maintenance and repair costs killed us. To their credit, they did cover the out-of-warranty costs of fixing an ABS problem after 19 (yes, NINETEEN) visits to the shop. They got an engineer from Sweden to diagnose the problem -- he traced it to a faulty wiring harness. Those were our last Volvo vehicle -- forever!

[chiller]

RE: Sell short !

..LOL...but you know...at least, they’ll go bankrupt in good conscience.

[Trod Upon]

How “green” are the batteries (production and eventual disposal)?

[PLMerite]

“Nah, they’re gonna buy the volt from GM....”

Voltvo, yeah, that’d work.

[SteveH]

I went through several mechanics before realizing they were actually heroes and not villains.

i am told that volvo stopped making any more than the minimum replacement parts required by us law upon being bought by ford, later to be re-sold.,

(ordinarily volvos compared well with mercedes for safety on paper. however, if they can’t be fixed...)

[Axenolith]

Right on...

[VTenigma]

How “green” are the batteries (production and eventual disposal)?

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^^^^^ This. Progs always discount cradle to grave life cycle impacts to the environment to push their green agenda. With all the electric cars and cordless devices where are the rare earth elements going to come from and what ecological impact is the mining and processing going to have? We never get those answers because it would unmask the fallacy.