VOLVO POWERS UP

Boating New Zealand attended one of the press days, travelling with other marine journalists in an electric Volvo bus from our hotel to the organisation’s high-tech R&D facility on the shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. During the course of a wet, stormy day, we were treated to series of indoor presentations detailing some of Volvo Penta’s latest releases for the marine market, followed by on-water demonstrations among the islands of the southern Göteborg Archipelago.

MAKING BOATING EASIER

Volvo Penta has always been an innovative company, introducing groundbreaking products like the Aquamatic sterndrive (1959), Duoprop sterndrive with counter-rotating propellers (1982), diesel engines with both supercharging and turbocharging (1991), petrol engines fitted exclusively with electronic fuel injection (1994), Electronic Vessel Control (EVC – 2003), Volvo Penta IPS (Inboard Performance System) forward-facing pod-drive propulsion (2005), joystick control (2006), Glass Cockpit system (2013), Forward Drive Duo-prop sterndrive (2015), E-Key remote (2016) and much more.

Its designers and engineers strive to deliver an integrated approach to boating,