Sustainable Transformation Podcast with Volvo | Driving a Sustainable Automotive Future

The Sustainable Transformation Podcast offers a behind-the-scenes look at the road to sustainability in business. We unpack the ideas that drive change, decode the jargon, and meet visionary leaders transforming their organisations for the better.

Volvo Cars is setting the pace for electrification globally and even more so here locally with the ambitious goal to be fully electric by 2026. Join Kiarne as she sits down with Stephen Connor, the Managing Director of Volvo Cars Australia, the local arm of a global automotive business that has had safety, sustainability, and environmental care at its core since day one.

Key Discussion Points:

• Industry Leadership: Stephen shares the many ways that Volvo Cars has been an industry leader in social and environmental impact since its inception in 1927 including the the history of the three-point seatbelt and why the Founders chose to share their technology with the world rather than keeping the patent as a competitive advantage, a decision which is estimated to have saved 1 million human lives.
• Ambitious goals: Hear why the Australian arm of Volvo Cars aims to be all-electric by 2026, setting their sights ahead of the company’s global ambition of 2030 as the pair discuss Volvo’s company-wide targets of net zero by 2040, how they’ll get there and the collaboration required to reach such audacious goals.
• Batteries, end-of-life and who is responsible: Kiarne asks Stephen who should be responsible for the end-of-life of vehicle batteries and Stephen shares a surprising answer along with some exciting innovations happening in the space and what Volvo Car Australia has is planning to launch to tackle battery recycling as early as 2025. 
• What’s new at Volvo Cars: Plus hear about the launch of Volvo EX30 and how the newest fully-electric vehicle is proving that electrification doesn’t mean compromise.

Plus Tune in to learn about the environmental project Volvo Car Australia is tackling in the Great Barrier Reef and how Volvo Cars is taking action for the better as part of their overarching sustainability program.

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Produced by the Nova Entertainment Network, season two brings new episodes featuring guests from Edge Impact, Who Gives A Crap and plenty more. Don’t forget to check out season one to hear interviews with Coles, Country Road, Energy Locals, Banksia Foundation, Telstra, Bared Footwear plus more. Tune in to the Sustainable Transformation podcast, available now on your favourite podcast platforms