Good morning! It’s Friday, March 22, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. New York Joins California, Banning Non-Electric Vehicles After 2035 1st Gear: Plug-In Hybrids Are Outpacing EV Sales Electric … Read more
Designed and built by Carrozzaria Bertone and riding on a solid 760 base, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Volvo 780 offers the best of both worlds. Let’s see if it offers some decent value, too. A Small and Overpriced (for Volvo’s Target Audience) EV is Coming I just got back from a whirlwind week … Read more
Photo: Volvo Out of all the legacy automakers, Volvo is one of the most steadfast and fastest working when it comes to the transition to electric cars. In every market the Swedish brand will only sell EVs by 2030, with no caveats or asterisks attached. Volvo already has a growing lineup of electric cars that … Read more
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety or IIHS has been holding automakers accountable for public safety since the ’90s, by putting new cars through more stringent and realistic crash tests than required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA. Thanks in part to the work of the IIHS, new cars are safer than … Read more
The festive period of Diwali is considered an auspicious occasion to bring home a new vehicle, and hence, manufacturers tend to offer lucrative deals in order to increase their sales. One such manufacturer that is currently giving out huge discounts on its cars this Diwali is Volvo India, offering benefits worth up to almost Rs … Read more