Henrik Green, Volvo’s senior VP for research and development, talks about the new XC60, customer reactions to autonomous driving and electric cars
The SPA platform and your 4-cylinder engine approach are big strengths.
Back in 2007 we worked hard to find the way forward for Volvo. Ford was looking for a different, and potentially stand-alone ownership. In such a world, where scale of economies is one of the big things you need, how would we survive? At this time, environmental awareness was drawing people’s attention.
They were questioning the environmental friendliness of cars. So we came up with the 4-cylinder strategy and the SPA (Scalable Product Architecture) platform. And we now have a plug-in hybrid as the top-of-the-line performance derivative, as well as the environmental alternative. And then the 4-cylinder, which later became an additional 3-cylinder alternative. [The strategy] is now paying and bearing fruit.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of Overdrive.
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