Volvo Car Corporation, a car manufacturer with a history of over 80 years, is well known for its innovative products which influenced the whole car industry.

The laminated glass windscreen in 1944, the 3-point safety belt saving millions of lives since its introduction in 1959, the lambdasond introduced in 1977 in combination with a three-way catalyst, cleaning emissions by more than 90%, are only some examples. New innovative products are the City Safety System for avoiding a collision and introduced with the XC60, and the Pedestrian Detection with full auto-brake introduced with the new S60.

Naturally, our successful and innovative products inspire others, and we receive every year unsolicited suggestions and ideas from all over the world. To be able to handle this great amount of external ideas in an open and fair process which meet the interests of both parties, we established the Policy for External Ideas.

If you intend to submit your idea to Volvo Car Corporation, please read this policy carefully. You need to agree to this policy; otherwise we will not be in a position to evaluate your idea. Therefore, please attach a copy of it, with the Declaration signed, to your submission to us.

Furthermore, we created a coversheet which we kindly ask you to use together with your submission. This coversheet will help you to give us all the information we need to administrate your submission. In addition, by following the questions it will help you to structure your idea in a way necessary for our evaluation.

Please send any submission either to

Volvo Car Corporation
External Ideas
Dept. 50094 HBBVN
405 31 Göteborg
SWEDEN

or

extideas@volvocars.com

We appreciate your interest in Volvo Car Corporation and thank you for submitting your idea to us.

Downloads:

Coversheet for External Ideas.pdf

Policy for External Ideas.pdf