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In November, Volvo Cars’ sales increased in all markets except Europe. There, sales fell nearly 11 percent in November compared to the same period last year.
But despite this, the company shows positive curves in the corona pandemic, especially since in the United States, for example, it rose just over 20 percent. At the same time, the Financial Times writes that CEO Håkan Samuelsson is planning a sensational move in connection with a conference on the cars of the future, to be held on Wednesday.
Best for the electric car transformation would be to ban gasoline and diesel cars, he says.
– No one can build a successful and profitable business through incentives. While temporary incentives can encourage the industry to move in the right direction, it may be more effective for governments to set a clear agenda for an electricity future, Samuelsson said in a webcast interview with the newspaper.
He continues:
– The more alternatives are kept open, the slower it will go.
You want to be a premium car
For Volvo, the goal has been for 50 percent of the company’s car models to be fully electric by 2025. The rest will be hybrid models.
Håkan Samuelsson tells the Financial Times that Volvo wants to be involved in leading the development of electric cars:
– We are convinced that the premium car segment will become fully electric over time, and our ambition is to be a leader in that segment.
An investigation has already been launched in Sweden into a ban that may come into effect in 2030. For TT, Financial Markets Minister Per Bolund says Sweden can ban gasoline cars before the rest of the EU.
– The investigation will examine the possibility of acting at national level and acting at EU level. But we see that a large number of countries have taken a similar step to ours.
Here’s Volvo’s new electric car, Polestar 2:
