The Sensor Sverige Select fund fell 1.3 percent in October, while its benchmark index rose 0.5 percent. Since the start of the year, the fund has returned 8.5 percent, while the benchmark index has... The Sensor Sverige Select fund fell 1.3 percent in October,…
Production of the original Polestar 2 has ended in China, closing the manufacturing chapter on the electric fastback that established the Swedish brand globally and attracted more than 6700 Australian deliveries. Originally conceived as a Volvo, the 2 instead became Polestar’s first mainstream…
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The 2026 Polestar 5 Performance is the top-spec version of this new flagship electric grand tourer (GT) in Australia. It's priced from $193,000, before on-road costs in Australia. While this isn't a small amount, it's around $65,000 less than the Porsche Taycan GTS, which…
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AiDEN Auto is the first in the market to offer this level of infotainment integration for e-Transportation compliance, creating a seamless route for Volvo Trucks customers to meet complex regional tax and transport requirements directly through the truck ecosystem itself.
Home › News › Aiden Auto brings RO e-Trans to Volvo Trucks infotainment Embedding regulatory reporting in factory hardware lets Volvo Trucks turn compliance into a reason to choose its connected services Volvo Trucks drivers can now handle Romania’s mandatory e-Transport compliance…
Europe's car industry is not only German, French and Italian. This corner of the map gathers the brands that come from elsewhere, or that have built distinctive identities inside bigger groups: Volvo and Polestar from Sweden, Skoda from the Czech Republic, Cupra and SEAT from Spain and Dacia from Romania. Between them they cover nearly every price point, from the cheapest new cars in Europe to luxury electric SUVs, and they have some of the most loyal buyers on the continent.
Their stories are full of reinvention. Volvo, founded in Gothenburg in 1927, gave the world the three-point seatbelt and has been owned by China's Geely since 2010, which also backs Polestar, Volvo's former performance arm turned electric brand. Skoda, which began making bicycles as Laurin and Klement in 1895, became a Volkswagen Group success story after the fall of communism, known for practical Octavias and Superbs. Cupra was spun out of SEAT in 2018 to sell sportier, design-led cars, while Dacia, owned by Renault since 1999, turned honest value into a formula that keeps its Sandero and Duster at the top of the sales charts.
Today these brands are at the center of the industry's biggest debates: how fast to go electric, how to compete with Chinese rivals on price, and how to cope with tariffs and slowing demand. Volvo has cut jobs and rethought its all-electric target, Polestar has struggled financially, and Skoda and Dacia have thrived by offering more for less. Coverage tracks launches, sales, earnings and strategy across all of them, along with reviews, recalls and the regional rivalries that make this the most varied neighborhood in European motoring.
Volvo's safety-first Swedes, Polestar's electric spinoff, Czech value from Skoda, Cupra's Spanish swagger and Dacia's no-frills hits from Romania.
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