{"id":75655,"date":"2018-01-30T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/volvo-becomes-the-first-premium-car-maker-to-go-all-electric"},"modified":"2018-01-30T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:22:33","slug":"volvo-becomes-the-first-premium-car-maker-to-go-all-electric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/volvo-becomes-the-first-premium-car-maker-to-go-all-electric","title":{"rendered":"Volvo Becomes the First Premium Car Maker to Go All Electric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_eIaTikUXvQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVolvo cars is taking a bold step forward,\u201d the company explained in a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/volvocarsglobal\/status\/882453416257220610\" target=\"_blank\">Volvo\u2019s official Twitter account<\/a>, \u201cheralding the end of an era for the pure internal combustion engine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While other companies have yet to take the leap, Volvo knows investing in electric car production makes good sense from a business perspective: \u201cThis is about the customer,\u201d H\u00e5kan Samuelsson, Volvo Car Group\u2019s president and CEO,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.volvocars.com\/global\/en-gb\/media\/pressreleases\/210058\/volvo-cars-to-go-all-electric\" target=\"_blank\"> said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cPeople increasingly demand electrified cars and we want to respond to our customers\u2019 current and future needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a decision rooted in a sense of environmental responsibility, \u201cWe are determined to be the first premium car maker to move our entire portfolio of vehicles into electrification,\u201d Samuelsson said in the video. \u201cThis is a clear commitment towards reducing our carbon footprint, as well as contributing to a better air quality in our cities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/volvo-becomes-the-first-premium-car-maker-to-go-all-electric\/?utm_content=buffer86c45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/volvo-becomes-the-first-premium-car-mak...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVolvo cars is taking a bold step forward,\u201d the company explained in a video on Volvo\u2019s official Twitter account, \u201cheralding the end of an era for the pure internal combustion engine.\u201d While other companies have yet to take the leap, Volvo knows investing in electric car production makes good sense from a business perspective: \u201cThis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75655","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}