Volvo es una empresa fabricante de vehículos industriales, incluyendo camiones, autobuses y equipamiento de construcción. Fue fundada en 1927 con sede en Gotemburgo, Suecia, por el ingeniero Gustav Larson y el economista Assar Gabrielsson. Fabricó autos hasta 1999, cuando vendió su filial Volvo Car Corporation a Ford Motor Company. Esta empresa, a su vez, la vendió en 2010 a Geely Automobile, de China. En latín, Volvo significa "yo ruedo". El emblema de la marca, el círculo y la flecha, es el símbolo del acero de los antiguos alquimistas y no representa el símbolo del hombre o de lo masculino como muchos creen erróneamente. En los camiones destacan los actuales Volvo FH, FM, FMX, FL, FE, FH16 dejando relegados a los antiguos FH12, FM12, FL6, FL7, FL10, FM, TD6, TD10. En autocares y autobuses Volvo B12B, B9R, y B7R dejando relegados los B12, y B10. En la actualidad el motor del Volvo FH es un 13 litros con potencias de 420 a 540 CV. El camión Iron Knight de Volvo ha batido el récord de velocidad en las categorías de 500 y 1.000 metros con salida de parado. Este vehículo que bate récords tiene un diseño hecho totalmente a medida, a excepción del motor y la caja de cambios I-Shift de doble embrague.

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(This article is about the Volvo Group (AB Volvo). For the separate manufacturer of passenger vehicles, see Volvo Cars. For other uses, see Volvo (disambiguation).) The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo) (stylised as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. Although the two firms are still often conflated, Volvo Cars, also based in Gothenburg, has been a totally separate company since it was sold to the Ford Motor Company in 1999. The companies still share the Volvo logo and co-operate in running the Volvo Museum. Volvo was established in 1915 as a subsidiary of SKF, the ball bearing manufacturer; however the Volvo Group and Volvo Cars consider themselves to have been officially founded on 14 April 1927, when the first car, the Volvo ÖV 4 series, affectionately known as "Jakob", rolled out of the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg. The building remains (57°42′50″N 11°55′19″E / 57.71389°N 11.92194°E). Volvo means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere", in reference to ball bearings. The brand name Volvo was originally registered as a trademark in May 1911 with the intention to be used for a new series of SKF ball bearings. This idea was only used for a short period and SKF decided to simply use "SKF" as the trademark for all its bearing products. In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, an SKF sales manager, and engineer Gustav Larson, the two founders, decided to start construction of a Swedish car. Their vision was to build cars that could withstand the rigors of the country's rough roads and cold temperatures. AB Volvo began activities on 10 August 1926. After one year of preparations involving the production of ten prototypes the firm was ready to commence the car-manufacturing business within the SKF group. AB Volvo was introduced at the Stockholm stock exchange in 1935 and SKF then decided to sell its shares in the company. Volvo was delisted from NASDAQ in June 2007, but remains listed on the Stockholm Stock exchange.

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