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Volvo and Bentley have as objectives to produce all electric vehicles by 2030

Michael Taylor
Michael TaylorContributor
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Long experienced in auto journalism, Taylor is based in Italy.
Volvo will be an all-electric automaker by 2030, CEO Hakan Samuelsson said today.
Volvo will be an all-electric automaker by 2030, CEO and President Hakan Samuelsson said today. ... [+] GETTY IMAGES
Proposed combustion-engine bans in Europe and Japan by 2030 shouldn’t concern Swedish premium automaker Volvo too much, its CEO insisted.

They’ll only make electric cars (EVs) by then anyway, Volvo CEO and President Hakan Samuelsson told the Financial Times Future of the Car Summit today .

Samuelsson said he’d be shocked if Volvo wasn’t a pure EV maker by 2030, with the company already planning to be halfway there by 2025.

"I would be surprised if we wouldn't deliver only electric cars from 2030," Samuelsson told the summit.

While he hasn’t set a deadline on the delivery of Volvo’s last internal-combustion engine, it wants one in five of its sales this year to be electrified and half of them to be EVs by 2025.

The admission by Samuelsson would make it the second legacy brand after Bentley to become a full EV maker by 2030.