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New customer demands - a force for change

Friday, May 12, 2017

"The car industry needs to change to reflect new consumer demands," said Håkan Samuelsson, CEO Volvo Cars, at the UN Global Compact Network meeting in Gothenburg. "“Our customers want safer, more sustainable and convenient cars. I am confident that our next generation of fully autonomous, electrified and connected vehicles will help make the cities of the future cleaner, safer and smarter.”

Volvo Cars is a founding member of the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. The meeting represents one of the biggest gatherings of Nordic corporate sustainability experts under the auspices of the United Nations.

Volvo Cars knows it cannot make progress by itself. That is why the company focuses on both private and public partnerships in sustainable development. It cooperates closely with safety organisations and public bodies to share its knowledge and advance traffic safety, it works with both public and private partners in the Drive Me autonomous drive experiment and it joined hands with Stora Enso and the Belgian government to realise a 40 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions at its manufacturing plant in Ghent.

Read the full press release here