His successor – and now his predecessor too – Jim Rowan, had pushed Volvo down a route of basing new cars on software rather than hardware. That’s a route many car makers are taking now, but Volvo fumbled the move. “We decided that the future of Volvo cars must be electric and today can confirm that we are even more convinced that this is the right answer, not only to the climate challenge, but also to our customers’ expectations of getting better, more attractive cars." “The problems with those cars were mainly down to the software,” Samuelsson said. In his previous stint as chief executive, Samuelsson made the promise that by 2020, there would be no fatal accidents for occupants of Volvo cars.

Source: The Irish Times March 04, 2026 18:36 UTC