Volvo news and trends

Declining Sales, Production Setbacks Add Miles to Bumpy EV Journey
Transportation // April 05, 2024

Barely a week following the launch of Xiaomi’s highly anticipated electric car, which catapulted the electric vehicle (EV) market into the limelight, other original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are once again dominating headlines, indicating an ongoing shift in the market landscape. On Thursday (April 4), Swedish automotive...

Remember the Titan: Apple Sunsets Electric Vehicle Moonshot
Apple // February 28, 2024

It’s lights out for Apple’s dream of entering the electric vehicle (EV) marketplace. A Tuesday (Feb. 27) report reveals that the Cupertino, California, personal computer and smartphone pioneer is abandoning its EV plans, sunsetting what was referred to internally as Project Titan. The effort, first...

Hertz Weighs Layoffs Amid Pivot Away from EVs
Earnings // February 06, 2024

Hertz is reportedly considering layoffs after selling part of its electric vehicle fleet. The car rental giant on Tuesday (Feb. 6) reported quarterly and year-end earnings showing that it lost an adjusted $1.36 per share, missing analyst projections of a 76-cent loss. The earnings came weeks after Hertz...

Volvo’s EV Funding Cut Highlights Ongoing Challenges in Driving Consumer Demand
Transportation // February 01, 2024

While electric vehicles (EVs) have been celebrated for their potential to revolutionize transportation and accelerate the path toward a greener future, recent moves by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to scale down production, divest and cut funding have cast a shadow over this once-optimistic narrative. On...

Interviews & Exclusives
Remember the Titan: Apple Sunsets Electric Vehicle Moonshot

February 28, 2024
It’s lights out for Apple’s dream of entering the electric vehicle (EV) marketplace. A Tuesday (Feb. 27) report reveals that the Cupertino, California, personal computer and smartphone pioneer is abandoning its EV plans, sunsetting what was referred to internally as Project Titan. The effort, first started in 2014, spent billions of dollars in pursuit of […]

Volvo’s EV Funding Cut Highlights Ongoing Challenges in Driving Consumer Demand

February 01, 2024
While electric vehicles (EVs) have been celebrated for their potential to revolutionize transportation and accelerate the path toward a greener future, recent moves by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to scale...

How Subscriptions Are Changing Car Ownership

January 23, 2018
To say that the Great Recession changed consumer buying outlooks across a variety of categories is not a controversial statement so much as it is a truism. And, with the...

Flywire And Volvo Give Cross-Border Car Leasing Wheels

August 04, 2017
Cars for international students can be a surprising complicated issue. Buying a car outright can be a hassle — it’s costly, and it might just be one more thing to sell...

Quick Reads
Musk Promises Tesla Robotaxis Amid Rocky EV Market

April 07, 2024
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company will debut a robotaxi this summer. “Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8,” Musk wrote on X Friday (April 5). The multibillionaire had predicted in 2019 that Tesla would launch a robotaxi by 2020.  His latest announcement hours after a report by Reuters that Tesla was jettisoning its plans to produce lower-cost cars […]

Hertz Weighs Layoffs Amid Pivot Away from EVs

February 06, 2024
Hertz is reportedly considering layoffs after selling part of its electric vehicle fleet. The car rental giant on Tuesday (Feb. 6) reported quarterly and year-end earnings showing that it lost an adjusted $1.36...

JPMorgan Helps Volvo Enter Indian EV Market

March 08, 2023
J.P. Morgan has assisted Volvo’s entry into the Indian electric vehicle market. The Swedish luxury carmaker’s XC40 Recharge is an exclusive direct-to-consumer (D2C) model powered by J.P. Morgan’s online payment...

Over-the-Air Updates Add Functions to Millions of Vehicles

May 26, 2022
Making the most of their ability to deliver over-the-air (OTA) updates to a growing number of cars, automakers continue to add new features to the software of cars that are...