Volvo launches plug-in hybrid vehicle project

**Tideland Prius** · 03-17-2008, 02:44 AM

Göteborg, Sweden – Volvo Car Corporation has joined with three other Sweden-based companies, including Saab, and the Swedish government to launch a research and development venture into plug-in hybrid vehicles. The field tests will be conducted in Sweden.

Volvo launches plug-in hybrid vehicle project | CanadianDriver: Automotive news

apriusfan · 03-20-2008, 11:32 PM

Another example of bone-headed stubbornness. Volvo has access to the hybrid technology that Ford licensed from Toyota. Did they do anything with it (like incorporate it into a hybrid XC90)? NOT. Now, because of all the interest around hybrids, they start a hybrid exercise. Kind of like how they had to be 'encouraged' to develop the XC90 after Ford purchased Volvo.

patsparks · 03-21-2008, 12:16 AM

Doesn't GM have an interest in Saab? They could use the Volt technology, why reinvent the wheel? Oh hang on, the volt is only a concept.

ShellyT · 03-23-2008, 01:09 PM

I remember seeing years ago, a show on the History Channel which showed a Volvo turbine series hybrid delivery truck. I also heard a rumor that Fords hybrid tech originated in Volvo.

It is possible that this venture has backing from the the Swedish government, and thus a domestic only co-op.

apriusfan · 03-23-2008, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ShellyT

...I also heard a rumor that Fords hybrid tech originated in Volvo.

It originated at Toyota: Ford to Use Toyota's Hybrid Technology - New York Times

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Originally Posted by ShellyT

It is possible that this venture has backing from the the Swedish government, and thus a domestic only co-op.

I doubt it as the car company participants are subsidiaries of U.S. companies.

daniel · 03-24-2008, 12:49 AM

It's good that they're doing this, but this is a research project, so will be 5 to 10 years before an actual car comes out of it.

ShellyT · 03-24-2008, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by apriusfan

It originated at Toyota: Ford to Use Toyota's Hybrid Technology - New York Times

I doubt it as the car company participants are subsidiaries of U.S. companies.

Ford may have licensed some of Toyota's tech, but it did not originate with Toyota. Ford developed their own system, but Toyota beat them to the patent office. So they reached an agreement on the 21 of 350 Toyota patents Ford's system might infringe upon. Toyota got access to some of Ford's emission and direct injection spark ignition(DISI) technology in exchange of letting Ford have access to the the hybrid tech.

Future Toyota's will have Ford tech in them.
Ford, Toyota Swap License Agreements | Mechanical Engineering | Find Articles at BNET.com
Car Prices and Research - Toyota and Ford Reach Hybrid Technology Agreement

With a Swedish power company, and battery & fuel cell company, it appears to be a Swede only partnership.

03-17-2008, 02:44 AM	#1
Tideland Prius Super Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 13,932 My Car: 2005 Prius Package: B Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 11	Volvo launches plug-in hybrid vehicle project Göteborg, Sweden – Volvo Car Corporation has joined with three other Sweden-based companies, including Saab, and the Swedish government to launch a research and development venture into plug-in hybrid vehicles. The field tests will be conducted in Sweden. Volvo launches plug-in hybrid vehicle project \| CanadianDriver: Automotive news

03-20-2008, 11:32 PM	#2
apriusfan Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: S.F. Bay Area Posts: 2,960 My Car: 2007 Prius Package: #6 Touring Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Re: Volvo launches plug-in hybrid vehicle project Another example of bone-headed stubbornness. Volvo has access to the hybrid technology that Ford licensed from Toyota. Did they do anything with it (like incorporate it into a hybrid XC90)? NOT. Now, because of all the interest around hybrids, they start a hybrid exercise. Kind of like how they had to be 'encouraged' to develop the XC90 after Ford purchased Volvo.

03-21-2008, 12:16 AM	#3
patsparks Uneducated bird-brain Aussie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Adelaide South Australia Posts: 4,924 My Car: 2004 Prius Package: Base Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 17	Re: Volvo launches plug-in hybrid vehicle project Doesn't GM have an interest in Saab? They could use the Volt technology, why reinvent the wheel? Oh hang on, the volt is only a concept.

03-23-2008, 01:09 PM	#4
ShellyT Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: eastern Pennsylvania Posts: 334 My Car: Other Non-Hybrid Package: N/A Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Re: Volvo launches plug-in hybrid vehicle project I remember seeing years ago, a show on the History Channel which showed a Volvo turbine series hybrid delivery truck. I also heard a rumor that Fords hybrid tech originated in Volvo. It is possible that this venture has backing from the the Swedish government, and thus a domestic only co-op.

03-24-2008, 12:49 AM	#6
daniel Cat Lovers Against the Bomb Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 9,151 My Car: 2004 Prius Package: #6 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Re: Volvo launches plug-in hybrid vehicle project It's good that they're doing this, but this is a research project, so will be 5 to 10 years before an actual car comes out of it.