Volvo aims to become an all-electric brand by 2030. As part of this ambitious plan, the car manufacturer long ago announced that it would stop using diesel engines in cars. focus on hybrid and electric models. In February, the last diesel Volvo V60 rolled off the assembly line at the Ghent plant in Belgium.
The automaker reports this. that the latest diesel XC90 is ready at the Torslanda plant in Sweden. it will be meant for him Volvo World Museum in Gothenburg where it will be on public display.
Volvo’s first diesel model was the 244 GL D6., equipped with a 6-cylinder engine manufactured by Volkswagen. A model that debuted on the European market in 1979. In 2001, the first domestically produced diesel engine appeared – a five-cylinder unit manufactured at a plant in Skovda, Sweden.
In 2008, the Drive-E range was launched with a 1.6-liter engine, the result of a collaboration with the PSA group. However, in 2012, the Volvo V60 D6 debuted on the market, equipped with a plug-in diesel engine, the first PHEV with a diesel engine. In 2013, the automaker introduced the second diesel engine of its own design, part of the Volvo Engine Architecture (VEA) family. We then move to 2017, when Volvo announced it would cease development of diesel units to focus on electrification. In 2024, the last units equipped with diesel engines left its factories.
Diesel models have thus characterized Volvo’s history for 45 years and accounted for the majority of sales in Europe in 2019. Then the situation changed and, as we know, Volvo decided to focus all its efforts on electrification, in which it is investing heavily.
Among the latest electric models to hit the market, we remember the new Volvo EX30, which we recently had the chance to briefly test.
Source: HD Motori
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