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Today, Green Car Journal announced that Volvo's world-first seven passenger plug-in hybrid SUV, the XC90 T8 Twin Engine, was the winner of its 2016 "Luxury Green Car of the Year" award.

"The new Volvo XC90 T8 is a milestone luxury SUV offering the important features most desired by buyers who want it all,” said Ron Cogan, editor and publisher of Green Car Journal and CarsOfChange.com. "Its attractive new styling...

Volvo : VOLVO XC90 T8 TWIN ENGINE NAMED 2016 LUXURY GREEN CAR OF THE YEAR BY GREEN CAR JOURNAL https://t.co/Gpuwpue7h4

— Newspress USA (@NewspressUSA) January 21, 2016

This morning, we came across some news from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), that has us pretty excited about the future of Volvo and autonomous vehicles.

In an effort to ensure that passengers can experience interruption-free media in their self-driving Volvo vehicles, the automaker is partnering with Ericsson to develop intelligent, high-bandwidth streaming capabilities...

Volvo partners with Ericsson to stream in-car video even with no signal https://t.co/hkk1tVoIFf pic.twitter.com/F8whtu2vTM

— Verge Transportation (@vergecars) January 4, 2016

In our last post here at Smothers European Volvo, we told you about the Drive Me project; a research initiative from Volvo, and Autoliv, that will put 100 families in self-driving cars on the streets of Gothenburg by 2017.

In an effort to alleviate hesitation of law makers and insurance companies, in regards to self-driving vehicles, Volvo CEO, Håkan Samuelsson, made a courageous statement...

If a self-driving car crashes, where does responsibility lie? @volvocarsus has the answer: http://t.co/mwV7JcEWEG pic.twitter.com/2UMKJrbSPG

— Car and Driver (@CARandDRIVER) October 11, 2015