Volvo Rolls Out Its Last Diesel Car

Volvo has rolled out its last diesel car from its Torslanda factory in Sweden. The last diesel car is the brand’s flagship luxury SUV, the XC90. First launched in 2014, it was very incremental in reviving the brand’s image with new underpinnings that Volvo developed under the stewardship of its (then) new parent company Geely. 

The last diesel XC90 will not hit showrooms, instead, it will be displayed at the World Volvo Museum in Gothenburg. The SUV is finished in blue and equips the brand’s 2.0-litre inline-4 diesel engine. Its electric, green replacement, the Volvo EX90 is already in production and available in Volvo showrooms across Europe.

The rollout of the last Volvo XC90 (diesel) thus brings an end to the brand’s 45-year-long relationship with diesel engines. Now the marque will shift its attention to becoming an electric-only car production company and it aims to achieve this by 2030. As part of this endeavour, it has already refitted its factories with technologies that will help in the production of EVs and battery drivetrains. 

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Several other manufacturers have also announced similar sustainable plans in the past, but most have remained non-committal about when to expect the phase-out of combustion engines from its line-up in totality. Volvo now becomes the first “legacy” manufacturer of its stature to commit and stick to it by pulling the plug on all its diesel models.