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Volvo Trucks Invest R130 Million In New Durban Dealership

Volvo Trucks South Africa has opened a new R million dealership facility in Durban KwaZulu-Natal to support the growth of the brand’s vehicle parc in the region. The new facility is strategically located in the Riverhorse Valley Business Estate which is easily accessible from the N2 highway connecting it to all the major transport and logistics corridors to Gauteng and the rest of the region. The dealership employs 67 local staff including 23 qual...

Volvo Trucks Adds Unique Sounds To Its Electric Trucks

The sounds are designed to not penetrate through walls to allow for quiet nighttime deliveries and contribute to better working conditions. To improve safety Volvo Trucks has developed an acoustic alert system with unique sounds for its electric truck models. The Volvo designed alert will increase safety by making pedestrians cyclists and other road users aware of approaching trucks which would otherwise be nearly silent. At the same time the soun...

Volvo Trucks South Africa Celebrates First Locally Produced New Generation Volvo Truck

Goldfields logistics takes delivery of the first new range Volvo FH produced locally. Volvo Trucks South Africa has presented the first locally produced unit of its new product range to Goldfields Logistics. The new FH unit will be incorporated into the company’s existing fleet of almost 200 Volvo trucks. Goldfields Logistics a specialised warehousing and distribution supplier with nationwide operations has plans to make its fleet exclusively Volv...

Volvo Group And Ssab To Collaborate On The World’s First Vehicles Of Fossil Free Steel

Volvo Group and SSAB have signed a collaboration agreement on research development serial production and commercialization of the world’s first vehicles to be made of fossil-free steel. Volvo plans already this year to start the production of concept vehicles and components from steel made by SSAB using hydrogen. “We are determined to be a climate-neutral company by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement. This means that our vehicles and machines w...

Serial Production Starts For Volvo Trucks’ New Generation Of Heavy Duty Trucks

Volvo Trucks new generation of heavy-duty truck models have entered serial production at the CO2 neutral Tuve plant in Gothenburg Sweden. Volvo Trucks’ new generation of heavy-duty trucks – the Volvo FH FH16 FM and FMX – are now entering serial production in Volvo’s manufacturing plants in Sweden Belgium and Russia. “We are very excited that our new generation of trucks will soon be reaching our valued customers. All four truck models have been de...