The last Volvo diesel car was an XC90 — © Volvo
Swedish car manufacturer Volvo Cars has said goodbye to the diesel era. The very last diesel car, an XC90, rolled off the production line at its factory in Torslanda, Sweden, on Tuesday. The company announced this.
Volvo had announced the end of diesel in September last year. The last V60 with a diesel engine was already produced in the Ghent factory at the beginning of February. “Just five years ago, the diesel engine was the core of our activities in Europe, as with most other car makers,” the company wrote in a press release. “The majority of cars we sold in Europe in 2019 were diesel-powered, while electric models were only starting to gain speed.” By 2023, 59 percent of Volvos sold in Europe would be rechargeable (plug-in hybrid or fully electric).
Volvo still builds petrol cars, but the manufacturer has the ambition to only make fully electric cars by 2030. The last XC90 diesel car is given a place in a museum in the Swedish city of Gothenburg. The XC90 has an electric sister, the EX90.
