{"id":18455,"date":"2015-10-15T13:47:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/volvos-first-fully-electric-car-will-arrive-in-2019"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:19","slug":"volvos-first-fully-electric-car-will-arrive-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/volvos-first-fully-electric-car-will-arrive-in-2019","title":{"rendered":"Volvo\u2019s first fully electric car will arrive in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/volvos-first-fully-electric-car-will-arrive-in-2019.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Volvo\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/10\/09\/cant-accept-autonomous-liability-get-out-of-the-game-says-vol\/\">been bullish<\/a> about self-driving vehicles, but it\u2019s much more coy when it comes to electric cars. The company\u2019s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volvocars.com\/us\/cars\/new-models\/all-new-xc90\">XC90<\/a> has a hybrid edition, and there\u2019s an existing V60 plug-in, but nothing fully electric. Finally, the Swedish auto-maker is ready to go all in, confirming an all-electric vehicle will go on sale in 2019, plus plans to offer hybrid versions of <em>every<\/em> car in its range, alongside a new \u201cseries 40\u201d range of smaller electrified cars. That\u2019s still quite a wait for the full EV, and the hybrids might not show up until 2017, but as the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/volvo-to-build-all-electric-car-by-2019-1444894742\">suggests<\/a>, Volvo might have been spurred on to make the announcement by the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/10\/14\/volkswagen-2016-diesels-emissions-cheating\/\">VW scandal<\/a> around diesel engines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/10\/15\/volvo-first-full-electric-car-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volvo\u2019s been bullish about self-driving vehicles, but it\u2019s much more coy when it comes to electric cars. The company\u2019s latest XC90 has a hybrid edition, and there\u2019s an existing V60 plug-in, but nothing fully electric. Finally, the Swedish auto-maker is ready to go all in, confirming an all-electric vehicle will go on sale in 2019, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69359,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18455\/revisions\/69359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}