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  • Volvo to keep its commitment on the electric vehicle manufacturing.

    Volvo has been a brand which has been known for its safety over the years. Now, car manufacturer from Sweden is going to be known as an electric vehicle company as well. Volvo has been facing many obstacles such as the shortage of semiconductors and the price variations however all the car manufacturers have been encountering these issues. The commitment of the company is going to be higher for the for the electric vehicles now as it is going to get into the hybrid powertrain or the all-electric vehicles for all of its models. The company which was known all over the world for the cutting edge features of safety and its crash ratings is going to be leading innovation for the automotive industry in the coming years.

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    The decision was announced in the last two years and the company has been trying to get its production to become fully electric by the year 2025. Volvo has also made a commitment by 2025 that it is going to have a million vehicles on the road by then.

    The other manufacturers have been following suit since then and it is going to impact the world in the most positive manner as the electric vehicles which is going to see a growth in the coming years with Volvo leading the charge for the market.

    Volvo is also going to offer a couple of fully charged plug-in models. The new Volvo is going to reach the floors of the showroom in the year 2023 in the form of a 2024 model.

    There has been no entry level price suggested yet but there are speculations rife about the electric vehicle price which has created a buzz in the world of electric vehicles. This is going to be a revolutionary growth graph for the company.

  • EV chargers to be installed by General motors in Rural America.

    General Motors is going ahead with its plans which include the installation of 40,000 EV chargers. Most of which is going to take place in the rural parts in America. This is going to come as the plans of GM including selling exclusively for the zero-emission passenger vehicles by the year 2035. This is not going to be the Level 3 fast chargers but the slower ones but they are going to be powerful ones. These will be going in the locations where the EV drivers may be able to leave their vehicles parked for a couple of hours like the sport venues, parks or the downtown shopping districts. These are chargers which are going to have the industry-standard plugs which might be used by most of the electric vehicles and not only the likes of GM and Tesla.

    As of now there are 43,000 such charging stations in America. If all the units get installed, they would be able to double their number of stations.

    For now, 1,000 dealers of GM have come on board for the installation of 10 chargers per its dealership. Many of the GM dealership owners are the independent business owners and own over one dealership. The chargers are not going to be installed at the dealerships though but through the local area where the dealerships are based.

    As of now, most of the electric vehicles in the country are sold on the coastal areas such as California and New York. The EV chargers as of now are concentrated more in the suburban parts and urban parts of the nation around the major highways where they serve people who drive from one town to another.

    The dealers will get to select the location of the chargers in the communities where they are located or their dealership is located.