Volvo 計画（する）s $2.9B IPO to 基金 electric 乗り物 ambitions
LONDON (AP) - Swedish 自動車製造業者 Volvo said Monday it 計画（する）s to raise at least 25 billion kroner ($2.9 billion) by selling 株 to 基金 its electric 乗り物 変形 戦略.
Volvo Cars and its parent company, Chinese carmaker Geely, have 適用するd to 持つ／拘留する an 初期の public 申し込む／申し出ing on the Nasdaq Stockholm, with 株 推定する／予想するd to start 貿易（する）ing before the end of the year.
The money raised from the IPO will help 基金 Volvo's lofty ambitions. The company 目的（とする）s to nearly 二塁打 sales by 2025 to 1.2 million 乗り物s, half of which will be 殴打／砲列 electric cars, and wants its entire 顔触れ to be all electric by 2030.
"We´re going to be the fastest in the 商売／仕事 to transform, to electrification - 2030 no more 燃焼 cars. And that´s just one one part," CEO Hakan Samuelsson said in an interview.
Volvo´s 計画（する）s also 含む selling more 直接／まっすぐに to 顧客s and it 目的（とする）s to have half of all sales come from online channels by 中央の-１０年間.
"All of that costs a lot of money. So that´s why we are now doing a 最初の／主要な 問題／発行する of new 株 to 安全な・保証する 公正，普通株主権 for that 変形 next year."
FILE - This Feb. 6, 2020, とじ込み／提出する photo shows the Volvo logo in the ロビー of the Volvo 法人組織の／企業の （警察，軍隊などの）本部 in Brussels. Swedish 自動車製造業者 Volvo said Monday, Oct. 4,2021 it 計画（する）s to raise at least 25 billion kroner ($2.9 billion) by selling 株 to 基金 its electric 乗り物 変形 戦略. Volvo and its parent company, Chinese carmaker Geely, have 適用するd to 持つ／拘留する an 初期の public 申し込む／申し出ing on the Nasdaq Stockholm. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, とじ込み／提出する)
Most of Volvo´s 現在の 顔触れ is made up of plug-in hybrid and いわゆる 穏やかな hybrid models. 殴打／砲列 electric 乗り物s account for only a small fraction of the total sold.
Volvo is based in Goteborg, Sweden, but has been owned since 2010 by Geely, one of 中国's biggest 独立した・無所属 自動車製造業者s, which bought it from Ford for about $1.8 billion.
The company is moving ahead with the 株 sale even as a 不足 of 半導体s has crimped 全世界の 自動車 生産／産物.
The 不足s will likely 固執する to at least the end of the year, 長，指導者 財政上の Officer Bjorn Annwall said. But because the crunch is 存在 felt across the car 産業, 自動車製造業者s can get away with selling pricier models or 申し込む／申し出ing より小数の rebates for fatter 利益（をあげる） 利ざやs, which more than makes up for lower sales.
"From a 財政上の 視野, this 不足 of 半導体s is not such a big 問題／発行する," Annwall said. "Of course, some 顧客s have to wait longer than we´d like to get the cars 配達するd. And so it´s a problem. But it´s a problem we have now learned to live within and we don´t see an 改良 極端に short 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語."
Volvo's sales 宙返り／暴落するd in September, 落ちるing 30% to 47,223 from the year before, によれば 月毎の sales 人物／姿／数字s 解放（する）d Monday. Annwall said the problem was いっそう少なく to do with 半導体素子 供給（する）s and more because of COVID-19 lockdowns in Southeast Asia that 一時的に shut its 供給者s' factories, 主要な to general 構成要素 不足s.
FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2020 とじ込み／提出する photo a Volvo car is parked behind the Volvo logo in the ロビー of the company's 法人組織の／企業の （警察，軍隊などの）本部, in Brussels. Swedish 自動車製造業者 Volvo 計画（する）s to raise at least 25 billion kroner ($2.9 billion) by selling 株 to 基金 its electric 乗り物 変形 戦略. Volvo said Monday, Oct. 4, 2021 that it 適用するd with its parent company, Chinese carmaker Geely, to 持つ／拘留する an 初期の public 申し込む／申し出ing on the Nasdaq Stockholm. The money raised from the IPO will help 基金 Volvo's 計画（する） of becoming an all-electric car company and 拡大するing その上の into online sales. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, とじ込み／提出する)
