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SWEDEN: Volvo to increase plug-in hybrid production
16 May 2013
Geely Group's Volvo Cars is ramping up production of its V60 plug-in diesel hybrid by 90% to cope with strong demand across Europe, particularly in Holland, Belgium and Italy.
SWEDEN: Volvo’s new engine family rolls off the line
13 May 2013
Geely's Volvo Car Group today (Monday 13 May, 2013) began production of a new family of four cylinder petrol and diesel engines at its revamped Skövde engine plant.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: The numbers are (still coming) in
10 May 2013
Quarterly/fiscal full year results continued to roll in this week with a healthy uptick at Suzuki in 2012/3, the latest Japanese automaker to finally shrug off the combined effects of the double whammy Japanese earthquake and Thai floods - and also benefit from the recent downward movement of the yen.
CHINA: Detroit Electric strikes deal with Geely
29 April 2013
Detroit Electric, the start-up electric car maker is to partner with China's Geely Automobile to develop EVs for the Chinese market.
SHANGHAI: Global debuts list [Final version with additional cars & updated descriptions]
22 April 2013
Details of concepts and new models which made their global debuts on Saturday 20 April at Auto Shanghai's media preview day.
SWEDEN: New plant impacts Volvo’s balance sheet in China
19 April 2013
Volvo will likely report a big operating loss in China for 2012 as slow sales and a costly new factory weighed on results, Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet reported.
INDIA: Volvo plans to boost sales
9 April 2013
Geely's Volvo is looking to increase its presence by introducing new models and increasing its sales network in India.
CHINA: Geely promises five new Emgrand models
8 April 2013
Zhejiang Geely Holding sales chief Liu Jinliang said recently the company would introduce five new cars under its high end Emgrand brand in the next three years.
CHINA: SAIC reports slowing profit growth in 2012
2 April 2013
SAIC has reported a 2.6% rise in profit last year, its slowest growth since 2008.
CHINA: Dongfeng cools on Fisker stake – reports
28 March 2013
Reports suggest that Chinese carmaker Dongfeng has decided not to pursue a bid for a majority stake in Fisker Automotive.
NEW YORK: New Geely-Volvo coming in 2014
27 March 2013
Volvo Car will introduce its first completely new vehicle as a unit of Geely Automotive Holdings in late 2014, chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson said.
CHINA: Volvo ‘on track for summer production’
25 March 2013
Volvo, whose Chinese operation has been embroiled in a row over misreporting sales figures, is expected to win full government approval to produce cars in the country from June, according to news reports.
CHINA: Magna opens new line at Zhangjiagang plant
22 March 2013
Magna has announced that its Magna Electronics operating unit has started a new automotive camera production line at its Zhangjiagang plant in China.
CHINA: Geely will not bid for stake in Fisker – report
21 March 2013
Geely will not bid for a majority stake in Fisker Automotive, mainly because of the electric car maker's obligations to the US government, reported Reuters, citing two sources.
CHINA: Geely makes moves in Brazil
8 March 2013
Geely will start selling cars - assembled at its Uruguay plant - in Brazil in August.
CHINA: Geely Auto to set up powertrain centre in Ningbo
1 March 2013
Chinese automaker Geely Automobile Holdings has agreed with the Hangzhou Bay New Area in Ningbo of East China's Zhejiang province to set up a powertrain centre in the city.
UK: Geely to invest in London cab company
25 February 2013
China’s Geely is planning to invest US$150m to make London Taxi Company a centre of excellence for taxi manufacturing, reported The Times.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: High tech trickles down
22 February 2013
The steady migration downwards of driver assistance systems took a big leap this week with the announcement of Nissan's new Note for Europe which will come with a whole heap of, probably optional but nonetheless available, kit. We took a closer look at this key development.
CHINA: Shanghai-GM leads passenger car market in January
22 February 2013
Automotive sales in China jumped 46.38% year on year to 2,034,500 units in January 2013. The passenger car market grew 48.68% to 1,725,500 units in the month, while bus and truck sales increased 34.75% to 309,000 units.
SWEDEN: Volvo Cars to shed 1,000 jobs
21 February 2013
Geely-owned Volvo Cars is to cut up to 1,000 jobs by the end of the year, the company's chief executive told Sweden's public broadcaster SVT on Wednesday.
ANALYSIS: Qoros of approval
20 February 2013
Is the world’s newest car brand a Chinese export, or a global brand that just happens to build its cars in China? Mark Bursa reports on the first steps of Qoros.
SWEDEN: Geely and Volvo Cars cooperate on new R&D centre
20 February 2013
Geely Holding, majority owner of Volvo Car Corporation and Geely, has said it will establish a Research and Development Centre in Gothenburg for use by both Volvo Cars and Geely.
CHINA: Geely in pole position for Fisker stake
19 February 2013
Geely could secure a majority stake in electric car maker Fisker Automotive, sources have told China Daily.
SWEDEN: Volvo Cars signs two loan agreements
13 February 2013
Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars) has signed two loan agreements with financial partners.
SWEDEN: Volvo Car’s January global sales decline 2.1%
8 February 2013
Volvo Car Group reports global retail sales of 29,614 cars for the month of January, a 2.1% decline versus January 2012.
SWEDEN: Carl-Peter Forster appointed to Volvo Car board
5 February 2013
Carl-Peter Forster has been appointed a new member of the Board of Directors of Volvo Car Group (Volvo Cars).
UK: Chinese step in to secure London cab future
1 February 2013
The future of Manganese Bronze, the company that makes the iconic London Taxi Cab has been secured with the announcement that it has been acquired by major shareholder Geely, the Chinese carmaker.
CHINA: Exports top 1m in record time
31 January 2013
China exported 1m vehicles in a calendar year for the first time ever in 2012.
INTERVIEW: Peter Horbury, Head of Design, Geely
15 January 2013
Peter Horbury was head of design at Volvo Car Corporation when the company was taken over by the Chinese carmaker Geely. He now divides his time between Sweden and China. Speaking in Detroit at the NAIAS, he tells just-auto of his task to establish a brand identity as well as to put together a new in-house team.
DETROIT: Geely's Horbury seeks a Chinese design
15 January 2013
Styling a car that looks Chinese is the challenge facing British designer Peter Horbury. He was head of design at Volvo when the company was taken over by Geely and now divides his time between Sweden and China.
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