c30 ev

Dutch website NU recently reported that Volvo expects low demand for its C30 Electric, and therefore it decided to stop building the mostly electric car (it has a small, ethanol-burning heater to keep passengers warm). The original source for this information was a story in the Belgian newspaper ...

Recently, Volvo wheeled out its C30 Electric for some cold-weather testing in the Arctic. In temperatures that hovered around -33 degrees Celsius (-27.4 degrees Fahrenheit), Volvo claims that the battery-powered C30 had "no problems coping with the climate." As Obi-wan would say, this is only ...

Sometime before week's end, Volvo is expected to announce that, in addition to the previously scheduled 250-vehicle test program of its C30 DRIVe Electric that will take place in Sweden and Belgium starting in mid-2011, the ...

We haven't touched on the battery-powered Volvo C30 in quite some time now, but in no way does that indicate that plans aren't moving along. In fact, Volvo expects to have the first ten C30 BEVs on the road this fall. Dibbs ...

During a presentation on the Volvo electric C30 today at the EnerDel facility in Fishers, IN, we heard a word we really didn't expect to hear: ethanol. We asked Lennart Stegland, Volvo's director of special vehicles, ...

As expected, Volvo brought along an all-electric C30 hatchback concept to the 2010 Detroit Auto Show. While this isn't a production vehicle at this point, Volvo says the car is a fully drivable prototype with a complete interior, ...