Just last month, Volvo Cars announced that they are expanding the company footprint in New Jersey to start ushering in a future where they’re selling only electric vehicles. This future is being realized with Volvo’s plan to build a new technical and training facility there, and the company will also install 50 EV chargers at the Volvo’s headquarters in Mahwah, NJ.

Volvo Car USA has been doing business in New Jersey for many decades. The company’s initial U.S. headquarters was founded in Newark in 1956 before moving to Rockleigh in 1964. In 2001, Volvo moved to Irvine, California after being purchased by Ford Motor Company’s Premier Automotive Group (PAG). Volvo then returned to Rockleigh in 2008, eventually relocating in 2020 to a more spacious building near Route 17 in Mahwah, where it currently employs about 340 people.

The Volvo Car Americas Technical and Training Center will provide a multi-vehicle workshop and classrooms where service technicians will learn the most up-to-date diagnostic and service techniques for all Volvo cars, including plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles.

Furthering the company’s sustainability priorities even more, the new building is designed to be LEED Gold certified. It will include a 15-kW solar panel system, high efficiency HVAC, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a green building certification program being used around the world. It offers a reliable framework for healthy, efficient, carbon- and cost-saving green buildings. The Volvo Cars Americas headquarters building, located within the same campus, is also LEED Gold certified.

Leading the construction of the Technical and Training Center is the Bedminster, New Jersey-based Stone Creek Construction Group. These experienced professionals specialize in commercial, industrial, and life science design-build projects and also provide pre-construction and construction management services.  Installation of the EV charging infrastructure is led by Star-Lo Electric, an electrical contractor based in Whippany, New Jersey specializing in commercial and industrial electrical construction projects throughout the state.