沃爾沃表示擬終結(jié)純內(nèi)燃機(jī)汽車

Volvo Cars announced that every model from 2019 onwards would have an electric motor, making it the first traditional carmaker to call time on vehicles powered solely by an internal combustion engine.

沃爾沃汽車(Volvo Cars)宣布，從2019年起該公司每款車型都將裝有電動馬達(dá)，令其成為首個(gè)終結(jié)純內(nèi)燃機(jī)汽車的傳統(tǒng)汽車制造商。

Volvo said on Wednesday that it would put electrification at the core of its business. From 2019 it will only make three types of cars: pure-electric, plug-in hybrids, and so-called “mild” hybrids combining a small petrol engine with a large battery.

周三，沃爾沃表示會把電氣化作為其業(yè)務(wù)的核心。從2019年起，該公司只會生產(chǎn)三類汽車：純電動車、插電式混合動力車、以及把小型汽油機(jī)與大電池相結(jié)合的所謂“輕度”混合動力車。

“This announcement marks the end of the solely combustion engine-powered car,” said Håkan Samuelsson, chief executive.

沃爾沃首席執(zhí)行官霍坎•薩穆埃爾松(Håkan Samuelsson)表示：“該聲明標(biāo)志著純內(nèi)燃機(jī)汽車的終結(jié)。”

“Volvo Cars has stated that it plans to have sold a total of 1m electrified cars by 2025. When we said it, we meant it. This is how we are going to do it.”

“沃爾沃汽車曾表示計(jì)劃到2025年以前賣出總計(jì)100萬輛電動汽車。我們說到做到。這就是我們實(shí)現(xiàn)這一目標(biāo)的手段。”

The Swedish carmaker was purchased by Chinese domestic carmaker Geely in 2010.

這家瑞典汽車制造商于2010年被中國汽車制造商吉利(Geely)收購。

The new owners have proven to be a catalyst in the race to electrify its models, as China is already the world leader in electric car sales and Geely is the only Chinese-owned carmaker producing vehicles for the US.

事實(shí)證明，在將車型電氣化的競爭中，沃爾沃新東家起到了催化劑的作用。目前，中國已成為全球電動車銷量最高的國家，吉利則是中國人持有的唯一為美國生產(chǎn)汽車的汽車制造商。

Nearly 265,000 pure-electric vehicles were sold in China last year, versus 110,000 in all of Europe, according to data compiled by EV-Volumes.com.

根據(jù)EV-Volumes.com網(wǎng)站統(tǒng)計(jì)的數(shù)據(jù)，去年中國銷售的純電動汽車接近26.5萬輛，超過了全歐洲的11萬輛。

Globally, the market for pure-electric cars is tiny, accounting for less than 1 per cent of sales last year, but the market is growing quickly.

從全球來看，純電動車的市場仍然微不足道，去年只占了不到1%的銷量。不過，該市場的增長十分迅速。

From January to March, global sales of plug-in vehicles — comprising EVs and plug-in hybrids — rose 40 per cent to 191,700 units, according to EV-Volumes.com.

根據(jù)EV-Volumes.com的數(shù)據(jù)，從今年1月到3月，全球插電式汽車(包括電動車和插電式混合動力車)銷量增長40%，至19.17萬輛。

If the growth rate since 2013 were to continue, then eight out of 10 cars sold in 2030 would be plug-ins.

如果自2013年以來的增長速度持續(xù)下去，2030年每十輛汽車中就有八輛會是插電式汽車。

Volvo said it would launch five pure-electric cars between 2019 and 2021. Three will come from Volvo while two will come from Polestar, the high-performance unit it launched last month.

沃爾沃表示在2019年至2021年期間會推出五款純電動車。其中三款將來自沃爾沃，另外兩款則會來自北極星(Polestar)，這是沃爾沃上個(gè)月獨(dú)立出來的高性能車部門。

By 2019 no new Volvo cars will be sold without an electric motor, as internal combustion cars are “gradually phased out”, Volvo said. It also aims to make its manufacturing operations “climate-neutral” by 2025.

沃爾沃表示，隨著內(nèi)燃機(jī)汽車“逐漸消失”，到2019年沃爾沃銷售的新車將沒有不安裝電動馬達(dá)的。該公司還打算到2025年令其制造業(yè)運(yùn)營過程“對氣候無害化”。