Volvo CEO says both plug-ins and fossil-fuel-powered cars can reduce emissions
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The Sweden House is a smart, clean-looking building in Washington, D.C.'s Georgetown district that serves as that country's embassy in the United States. On a hot June morning last week, the House opened its doors to Volvo, Sweden's biggest automaker, for a morning seminar titled Innovation Towards Zero that covered the ways the company is trying to further the cause of sustainable mobility in a global market. The short version is as follows: Volvo plans to use a wide variety of fuel-saving methods in its upcoming vehicles because it thinks the focus should be on the end result (lower CO2 emissions) and not on any particular technology. So, while it's clear that plug-ins will play a role for Volvo - and the C30 Electric and V60 Plug-In Hybrid were certainly the vehicles du jour - there's no way Volvo is putting all of its technological eggs into one specific basket. Even though there is a big push for electrified vehicles across the industry, Volvo does not have a timeline for when all of its models will be electrified, or when something like that would be an option for each model. Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby told AutoblogGreen:Continue reading...[The technology used] depends very much on the CO2 standards, that's the guiding line, more or less... We should not forget that the traditional internal combustion engine can significantly be improved and the benefits out of this can be made with less investment and complexity. We are [in] a long transition period from fossil fuels towards alternative powertrains and we need to understand that we have to be careful to not invest into the wrong direction.
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