Volvo Automobiles is the newest automaker to leap on the Tesla Supercharger bandwagon.
The Swedish automaker on Tuesday mentioned its electric-vehicle clients may have entry to Tesla’s 12,000 Superchargers throughout North America.
Beginning in 2025, Volvo electrical automobiles in Canada and america will even be geared up with the North American Charging Commonplace port, permitting the EVs to plug into the Supercharger community in each international locations.
Volvo plans to go all electrical globally by 2030. The model’s Recharge line of battery electrical and plug-in hybrid fashions accounted for 27 per cent of U.S. gross sales final 12 months. Canadian particulars weren’t out there.
Over the previous a number of weeks, Tesla has inked comparable offers with Ford Motor Co., Common Motors and Rivian.
Volvo Automobiles Chief Business Officer Bjorn Annwall mentioned enhancing the charging expertise is a “excessive precedence” for the model.
“Our aspiration is to ensure we, as quickly as attainable, [have a] nice charging expertise for … clients,” Annwall mentioned at a media occasion in Milan in early June. “You’ll be able to have it through the Tesla community, you’ll be able to have it through a few of the different networks.”