Volvo Cars, also simply called Volvo, is a Swedish car manufacturer since 1927. This is who makes its super reliable engines.
Volvo was created in Gothenburg, Sweden, as a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer, by two ex-employee partners Assar Gabrielsson and Gustav Larsson. The Volvo brand was initially registered by SKF on 11 May 1915 for the creation of a series of ball bearings to be exported to the American market, but in fact it remained unused.
Many years passed and it was dusted off in 1927 for the creation of automobiles. In Latin Volvo stands for movement, dynamism and seemed perfect for the launch of cars. The first Volvo was built on 14 April 1927, and was called ÖV 4. The production of cars was combined with that of heavy vehicles such as buses, earth-moving machines, agricultural tractors and marine engines. The innovations in terms of safety and reliability made the brand known throughout the world.
The automotive sector was definitively split from it, although it retained the Volvo name in 1999 and became a company headed by Ford, later incorporated into the Chinese Geely group in 2010. For this reason, it is necessary to clarify the production of the Gothenburg company. Furthermore, in the past, thanks to the commercial alliance with the French brand Renault, too some models of the French company were equipped with Volvo engines.
The fame of Volvo engines
The engines of the Swedish brand, regardless of the general architecture and cylinders, had the following characteristics: crankcase and cylinder head in aluminum alloy; 4 valve head per cylinder; overhead valves; double overhead camshaft distribution; multipoint electronic fuel injection and fractured forged steel connecting rods.
Volvo modular engines cover a displacement range from 1.9 to 3.0L. All versions were made in the Skövde factory, not far from the company’s headquarters. It has become the brand’s first production site with zero impact on the climate thanks to the conversion to renewable heating sources starting from 1 January 2018. From now on, the focus will be increasingly on electric. Take a look at the new B-SUV EX30.
“Our priority is first of all to improve energy efficiency and then to use renewable sources to generate the energy we need – explained Javier Varela, Senior Vice President Production and Logistics of Volvo Cars – The results achieved by the Skövde plant are an important contribution to broader efforts to reduce our environmental impact. We are happy to be leaders in the automotive sector of the evolution towards climate-neutral production.”
The Swedish car manufacturer also has an assembly plant in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), R&D centers in Shanghai, Copenhagen (Denmark), Stockholm, Lund (both in Sweden) and Sunnyvale (USA). Volvo Cars style centers are also located in Gothenburg, Camarillo (USA) and Shanghai.
