{"id":62943,"date":"2015-10-16T04:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T09:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62943"},"modified":"2015-10-16T04:42:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T09:42:34","slug":"volvo-cars-to-release-first-fully-electric-model-by-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/16\/volvo-cars-to-release-first-fully-electric-model-by-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo Cars to release first fully electric model by 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN &#8211; Swedish automaker Volvo Cars, plans to release its first fully electric car in 2019, while plug-in hybrids will be introduced for all of its models, the company announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Vovlo Chief Executive Officer Hakan Samuelsson said he expects electric cars to make up 10 percent of Volvo&#8217;s global sales in two years&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that the time has come for electric cars to cease being a niche technology and enter the mainstream,&#8221; Samuelsson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Volvo plans to introduce a range of smaller 40 series cars that are fully electric, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>However, it also claimed that plug-in hybrid cars offer customers &#8220;the best combination of efficiency, range and convenience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s XC90 SUV and 290 sedan models come with hybrid engines, while a new, front-wheel driven hybrid will be developed in coming years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Volvo Cars, which was acquired by Chinese auto company Geely in 2010, employs over 26,000 people worldwide and sold some 460,000 cars in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN &#8211; Swedish automaker Volvo Cars, plans to release its first fully electric car in 2019, while plug-in hybrids &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":62944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9230],"class_list":["post-62943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-uploads","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}