The Globe and Mail Jason Tchir Published March 3, 2021
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Who killed the gasoline-powered car?
That’s a question we could be asking in less than a decade, if Volvo sticks to predictions made by its CEO.
“I would be surprised if we wouldn’t deliver only electric cars from 2030,” Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson said at an online-summit in December.
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In January this year, General Motors announced that it would stop selling gas-powered vehicles by 2035, and there are reports that Volkswagen is planning to switch to all-electric by 2040.
Other companies, including Jaguar, Ford and Bentley, have made similar predictions since the U.K. announced it was banning the sale of new gas cars by 2030 and new hybrids by 2035.
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