Volvo Cast #04 | Por um futuro mais Volvo - com Roger Alm e Wilson Lirmann

Hello everyone, we are here live from Fenatran from our studio for another Volvo Cast. Look, folks, we are talking directly to you. For those who couldn't be here at Fenatran, we are bringing a bit of our feeling here from Fenatran, our energy to you who are watching us. Today we have two important Volvo executives to talk with us: the president of Latin America, Wilson Lamas, welcome Wilson, and the worldwide president of Volvo Trucks, Roger Alm, welcome. It's a pleasure to be here with you, talking to our followers on our digital channels. Well, starting with you, Wilson, what are Volvo's expectations for Fenatran 2022?

Felipe, first a big hug to everyone who is following us. This is the Fenatran of reunion because our last Fenatran was in 2019. In 2020 the world changed, our lives changed, and many things happened. The transport sector, our customers, were extremely demanded to have more safety, more productivity, more economy, and we had to keep up with all that. So we never stopped investing. Our team, with all the challenges we had during these two years, worked very intensely. We completely renewed our product line. It was the largest investment cycle in our history. We brought the new FH line, expanded the VM line, and finally now we are bringing the conclusion of this investment cycle with the new Euro 6 line and great advances in the Euro 6 line, including the Volvo engine in the VM, in addition to products and services. So it's the Fenatran of reunion. Our super competent, super engaged team is here, prepared to receive customers and the public. We are very excited. You can feel the energy here, today even fuller. Very good.

Roger, you are in Brazil. How is it to be back and participate in Fenatran?

To have you here also, and you said something about sustainability. Sustainability is a topic that is very much present in our stand here. And perhaps you can say how Volvo Trucks sees sustainability.

Strong actions and strong commitments. Great. Wilson, perhaps... sorry, you can do it in English if you want, but let's go in Portuguese. Roger spoke a lot about sustainability globally. What Volvo Trucks is doing, maybe you can comment for our audience here in Brazil, how Volvo Trucks is conducting this topic.

Without a doubt, Brazil and Latin America are very important markets, with great weight for Volvo in the world. So everything Roger said are goals that we also share. Volvo is leading this process in Europe and the United States, and we are taking the first steps here in Brazil as well. I mentioned earlier that we are completing the largest investment cycle in our history, bringing the new Euro 6 line. These are still internal combustion engines, but they bring important advances in decarbonization because the future electric vehicles are a trend and will gain a lot of strength and volume. We will have these vehicles running here in Brazil as well, but internal combustion vehicles continue to be important and we continue investing to make them even more sustainable. In the FH line, we reduced fuel consumption by 8% with the new Euro 6 line. In the VM line, we went further, 10% reduction with the new Euro 6 line. So that is also sustainability. But of course, we want to be 100% carbon free by 2040, and we want to reach 50% worldwide by 2030. Brazil has weight, and we are taking the first steps in our electromobility journey. We brought here the first electric Volvo truck. We will soon be testing these trucks with some customers in our operations to validate for Brazilian conditions, and with that we will be able to advance with the first deliveries, the first commercial deliveries of these vehicles. So we will have many news in the coming months. I am sure that, as in the rest of the world, this will accelerate here in Brazil. And of course, products are very important for Volvo, it is our main contribution, we invest a lot in that. But this sustainability topic, Felipe, you know, you are part of this journey with us. We are dealing with this in everything we do: in our operations, in the factory, in our dealerships, with our partners, suppliers. We want to bring our customers into this as well, because they are also giving more and more importance to this topic on their agenda. So we are an important part of a chain that wants to change and improve.

Wilson, look, folks, there is a lot here for you to get to know in this line that Roger was commenting on. So come visit us, and those who couldn't visit us, follow along here because there are many new things in the area of sustainability, a lot of very interesting content. Great, thank you Wilson.

And we agree, we agree, and we are emotional for it. Passion, very passion, big time, yes, correct. Well, Wilson, to close, we could spend hours talking with you. To end our chat, we have talked a lot about our campaign 'For a more Volvo future'. What is a more Volvo future for you, Wilson?

Felipe, everything starts with our values. Our company, our organization, our brand has values since its foundation that have always been very future-oriented: quality, safety, respect for the environment. So it's not today that we deal with these topics. Let's think about safety in our country, in our continent, with all the challenges we have in this area, and how much we can do better by preserving lives and people's health. And we do that, of course, through our products, but also in our way of doing business. And it's not just Volvo, it's our partners, our dealers, our suppliers, and of course the environment topic. We have already talked a lot about climate, sustainability, decarbonization. But for us at Volvo, it's not just these big movements that are very important. We are part of the problem and we want to be part of the solution, leading the solution. Exactly. But also in the small things. And you know the saying we have inside Volvo: everything we do is done by people for people. And Roger spoke about the emotion and passion that we have. And it's like that with our entire team. This movement to do better, to move the world we want to see. So a hug and a very special thanks to our entire team that is here at Fenatran, to everyone at the factory, at the dealerships, serving our customers. Today you are part of this journey. A big hug to you.

Very good, Wilson. Thank you. Thank you, Roger. Folks, thank you very much for being here with us. Huge pleasure. Thank you, thank you very much, Roger. Big hug. Big hug.