The decision to not only build electric cars was made relatively recently. Still, it was an easy decision, says Volvo.
Dropping the ceiling of only building electric cars by 2030 is not something that has kept the Volvo top up at night for a long time. Actually, it was an easy decision.
It came to light in connection with Volvo's capital market day at the World of Volvo in Gothenburg. Volvo denies that it has given up on the electric car. Now it is said that the brand is 'flexible'.
– It was relatively recently that we made the decision. It wasn't a hard decision to make. We are not abandoning our strategy, but becoming more flexible and adapting to what is happening in the outside world, says operations manager Björn Annwall to Carup .
In political Sweden, however, people are ready to blame the government entirely for the fact that Volvo will no longer only build electric cars.
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From the opposition's side, it is said that the government could have simply stuck to tax reductions and other state support for e.g. charging stations.
– As Volvo itself states, when too few charging stations are built and subsidies are withdrawn, it has consequences.
– The government has chosen to step back into the future and increase climate emissions, and now Volvo is also forced to go back on what is the future. It's not just bad climate policy, it's also bad industrial policy, says Venstrepartiet leader Nooshi Dadgostar to Goteborgs-Posten.
However, the government's environment minister has already denied that a so-called 'environmental bonus', what is known in Denmark as reductions in the registration tax, will once again be discussed. Nor to people in new electric cars. Read more about it here .
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