Sweden's towns will soon be allowed to ban old diesel engines from their town centres in an effort to improve the environment and combat air pollution, the government announced on Friday.
A fire broke out on Monday inside the world's largest Volvo Cars industrial site in Gothenburg, authorities said, prompting an evacuation of the industrial premises.
Sweden's Volvo, which is the world's second-largest truck maker, said on Tuesday that bottom-line profits fell sharply in 2016, hit by a decline in sales in North America.
Sales of new cars in Sweden rose 7.9 percent last year, according to fresh figures. And for the first time in more than five decades, the car topping the list of most-sold models is not a Volvo.
Lennart Ribring, from Stockholm, bought his first Ford Mustang in the 1960s. Some fifty years later, the 97-year-old driver just became the world's oldest owner of the iconic car.
A couple of Stockholm police officers were left red-faced on Saturday night after they left their car unlocked with the keys in the ignition, only to see a drunken twenty-year-old climb in and drive it away.
Sweden's border controls have been told to be on the lookout for a man who escaped after driving his car into a large crowd in Bollnäs, injuring a mother and her adult son.
Swedish automaker Volvo Cars will form a joint venture with car safety world leader Autoliv to develop software for driverless vehicles, the two companies said on Tuesday.
A truck driver and a four-year-old girl were taken to hospital after seven vehicles were involved in a huge rush-hour crash on the motorway into Stockholm on Thursday.
Four members of the up-and-coming British indie band Viola Beach and their manager were killed early on Saturday morning when their car plummeted 25 metres from a bridge near Stockholm into a canal.
A Swedish father has told of his and his 18-month-old child's lucky escape when an overhead road sign structure came crashing down on their car in central Stockholm.
The family of a one-year-old girl who suffered irreversible brain damage after getting trapped in a Volvo car's electric window is to be awarded almost seven million dollars (55.6m kronor) by the Swedish firm.
Swedish auto giant Volvo is planning to build buses destined for Europe's roads in Bangalore, providing a major boon to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' campaign.
