Chinese-owned Volvo is Recalling Cars Across 40 Markets
The biggest Swedish carmaker who bought by Chinese giant has been recalling 59,000 cars across 40 markets. Fault cars have problems with temporarily shutting down the engine. The recall affects five-cylinder diesel models that are S60, V60, XC60, V70 and XC70 manufactured in mid-2015.
The biggest Swedish carmaker who bought by Chinese giant has been recalling 59,000 cars across 40 markets. Fault cars have problems with temporarily shutting down the engine. The recall affects five-cylinder diesel models that are S60, V60, XC60, V70 and XC70 manufactured in mid-2015. Owners of the affected vehicles – which are mostly in Germany, Britain and Sweden – are being sent letters directly, and invited to their local dealerships for a short ( 30 minutes ) no-fee fix.
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For now, the glitch did not cause any recorded accidents. It can shut down the electrical and engine system while the car is in motion. The problem reported by many drivers of Volvo who said the vehicle is cutting down the system without warning and creating a brief absence of steering and braking. But the car restart both immediately.
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Yusuf Demir
Yusuf Demir is the Cloud & Software Reporter at TrendinTech, where he covers cloud infrastructure, enterprise platforms, developer tools and the digital transformation of businesses in the UK and the United States. He previously reported on enterprise technology for The Register in London and covered the cloud and SaaS beat for TechCrunch, following the competition between AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, the open source licensing disputes and the rise of Kubernetes. Yusuf holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and speaks regularly at KubeCon and AWS re:Invent, where he moderates conversations with engineers and chief technology officers. He is most interested in the gap between vendor roadmaps and the systems engineers actually run, and in what the cloud bill looks like once the free credits expire.
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