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From now on, there is no need to leave your Volvo behind when you park it.

The Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid is the world's first diesel plug-in hybrid and is Volvo Car Corporation's most technically advanced model ever - an electric car, hybrid car and muscle-car all rolled into one. At the touch of a button, the driver can choose which of the three cars they want to drive at any given moment.

The combination of Edbro’s CX14 lightweight tipping gear and an Aliweld Highsider aluminium tipper body is enabling W. Rolls Transport of Somerset to realise extra capacity from its latest 20-tonne payload eight-wheeler vehicle, making longer distance and larger haulage jobs more commercially competitive.

Leading industrial design/styling software company solidThinking is launching its latest version for Windows and Mac users worldwide.

With five manufacturing sites across Europe (four in Sweden and one in Belgium) Volvo is, as everyone will recognise, a major force in automotive manufacturing. The company’s acquisition, by Ford in 1999, represented an opportunity to bring together the maintenance philosophies of the different organisations and also rationalize the operations at the five sites.

With an expected global market value of 123 billion euros in 2011 and an average annual growth of 6.1% between 2006 and 2011, automotive electronics continues to be one of the most important markets served by the electronics industry (source: Décision, 2007).

Delphi Automotive is supplying innovative technologies to a significant number of new vehicles introduced at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. From diesel systems to active safety technology and thermal innovations to connection systems, Delphi is working to help drivers stay safe and remain connected while lessening the environmental impact of the vehicle they drive.

EU funded project HAVEit is set to make vehicles safer, more environmentally- friendly and efficient by enhancing their level of automation. After more than three years of research work on intelligent driver assistance systems, seven vehicles demonstrating concrete results are to be presented in Borås (Sweden) on 21 and 22 June 2011.

Volvo's fuel saving start/stop technology which reduces emissions of CO2 by up to 8% has, for the first time, been combined with the six-speed Geartronic transmission. This innovative and industry-leading development delivers the first four models in the Volvo range that can be ordered with an automatic gearbox as well as benefiting from start/stop technology.

SMSC announced that the Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) networking technology, the accepted standard for high bandwidth infotainment networking in the car, has been selected as the backbone of the infotainment system of the all new Audi Q3 model. MOST is now in 107 car models.