Rio+20: Electric vehicles will be future of mass transport, says Volvo

Rio+20: Electric vehicles will be future of mass transport, says Volvo

Rio+20 (14/06/2012) – Luis Carlos Pimenta, President of Volvo Latin America explains how Volvo believes electric mobility will be the future of transport. He explains how their new hybrid bus, designed for the Brazilian city of Curitiba, works to save fuel but 35% and how they are different to other technologies on the market currently.

He says the Volvo partnership with Curitiba, which has been going for 35 years, has pushed the company to make advances in technologies which can then be pushed out across Brazil and the whole of Latin-America.