Volvo drives climate change meeting in Copenhagen

By Matt Brogan | December 07th, 2009

Volvo’s most fuel efficient models will be used to chauffeur heads of state and other VIPs around Copenhagen for the COP15 Climate Conference, which starts today.

A fleet of 60 Volvo S80 and Volvo V70 vehicles – 40 Flexifuel models powered by bioethanol and the remaining 20 diesel-powered DRIVe models – will be used during the event which runs until December 18th.

“We support COP15′s efforts to systematically reduce global CO2 emissions,” said Stephen Odell, President and CEO of Volvo Car Corporation.

“DRIVe Towards Zero is our vision for developing cars entirely free from harmful exhaust emissions and environment-impacting carbon dioxide.

“Our aim for 2020 is to bring the average emissions from our models down to 90-100g CO2 per kilometre.”

Volvo has one of Europe’s broadest Flexifuel ranges with five models – the Volvo C30, S40, V50, V70 and S80 – now available offering a choice of up to two E85 engines.

The Volvo V70 and Volvo S80 in Copenhagen have a five-cylinder 2.5-litre turbocharged Flexifuel engine producing 147 kW and 300 Nm of torque.

Flexifuel cars can be run on bioethanol E85 (85 percent bioethanol, 15 percent petrol) or on unleaded petrol, or on any mixture of these two fuels.

E85 is not available in Denmark, so a special supply has been made available for the Flexifuel cars on the official vehicle fleet.

At present, Volvo’s DRIVe range consists of a series of seven extremely fuel-efficient diesel models. The Volvo S80 and Volvo V70 DRIVe are powered by a 1.6-litre diesel engine. The fuel consumption (EU Combined) is 4.9L/100 km, which translates into CO2 emissions of 129 g/km – a particularly competitive figure for large premium cars.

The C30 DRIVe model, which emits an average of 99g/km and sips just 3.8L/100km, will be introduced to the Australian market in March 2010.

Safety First

Yay For Copenhagen……… Lets buy 60 vehicles (40 of which require us to transport in special fuel, by dirty CO2 emmitting trucks) to taxi around all the climate change specialists that we have flown in on CO2 Emitting special flight jets (usually carrying only 40 people per Jumbo) so that we can discuss ways of taking the freedom of movement (ie drivable Motor vehicles) off the masses. We’ll call it saving the planet and market it well enough so that they feel warm and Fuzzy about it, whilst all we are trying to do is assert more control onto their lives. Seeing as increased speeding fines and road rules don’t seem to be working, this just might!!

Now you can take the above as sarcasm, or reality. It is, as the person reading it, your choice.
Deano

I have no doubt that our fearless leader will ditch the Volvo and cycle to the meetings to inspire the other world leaders.

MisterTwo

Then he will jump into his V8 Caprice when he gets back.

Flying High

In years to come the masses will come to realise what a farce the whole Climate Change (no longer global warming) was, and that all it really amounted to was yet another derivative to be traded on the worlds stock markets. The paranoia is akin to 2K but a far grander scale.

We are just (preumably) coming out of the GFC which was by and large caused by people putting money into derivatives of derivatives of shares, which to some distorted degree was supposed to be backed up with tangible assets. Now it is literally going to be trading on gas which is quite intagible and freely available to anyone who breathes. Some of us are going to be making a lot of money out of this. Not the rest of you…. bring it on and let the cash roll in…
http://www.CarZ.com CarZ

I think if more automakers would design environmentally vehicles that would be great. The only downfall is that it’s all political and not really intend for concern for the environment.
Peter

Volvo were talking about biofuel well before it got trendy – the XC60 concept was premised on 85% bio. I am pretty cynical about the whole thing myself (I read somewhere that the process of growing crops for biofuel is pretty environmentally hostile of itself) but then again, it’s good to have options. It’s also good to see volvo (which I really like) generating a presence in markets largely ignored by other major marques. I hope (against hope) that sooner or later volvo will become trendy, but I might be living in a fool’s paradise.
WTF

Make them Walk.
WTF

Especially Kevin Rudd
Hjalle

C’mon Volvo Australia bring these out to AU
We were iterested in buying a V70 but when we found out it only had the T6 engine in it we got turned off.
Shak

We bag the car companies when they dont do anything, and we bag them when they actually do something. Cynical people who complain about cars all the time shouldn’t drive them. What they want manufacturers to do isnt going to happen in the next 20 years or so.
KM

I think Volvo is going to be the next Audi in Australia… I reckon over the next couple of years they are going to bring out nice looking/performing cars.

The 2010 s60 looks fantastic so does the updated c30!
Joe

So much ignorance here, it’s amazing.