The new 'I-Torque' option combines Volvo's latest diesel engine, transmission and cruise control technologies for greater fuel efficiency.

Two sites run by Camions Volvo Montreal and Paré Centre du Camion are now certified to sell and service the Volvo VNR Electric series of Class 8 battery-electric trucks.

The range of the new generation of battery-electric trucks is expanded to 440km, nearly double that of the range offered by the first generation.

Recipients of the federal research funding include PACCAR, Volvo Group North America, Daimler Trucks North America, Ford, and General Motors.

AMPLY Power is working with the Volvo Group Connected Solutions Innovation Lab to develop new charging management products for the logistics sector.

The order for 16 VNR Electric trucks was placed by California-based Performance Team, who will receive them by the end of the year.

The VNR Electric truck is the first of five which have been ordered by Manhattan Beer Distributors and the first to roll off the series production line at the New River Valley facility.

Volvo Trucks North America is offering the fifth generation of SafetyDirect Processor from Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems as a factory-installed option on Volvo VNL, VNR and VHD models.

Volvo Group has announced investment of USD33m during a groundbreaking ceremony by Volvo Trucks North America at one of its main production sites in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Volvo Trucks North America Inc of Greenboro, North Carolina, in announcing the supply of a Volvo VNR Electric to Quality Custom Distribution - the first zero-emission, battery-electric truck to be deployed in QCD’s fleet of more than 700 vehicles – has also announced production of the Class 8 electric truck slated to begin in early 2021 at the company’s New River Valley manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia.

Volvo’s Class 8 VNL long haul heavy-duty tractor truck is celebrating over a quarter century of production at the company’s New River Valley plant in Virginia, USA, where it has been assembled since its launch in 1996.

Vanguard Truck Centers LLC, a dealer of Volvo Trucks North America Inc of Greensboro, North Carolina, has invested USD23m in a new facility, which is one of four locations in the Houston, Texas area, in addition to a full-service body shop.