CampX by Volvo Group is a global concept designed to accelerate new technology and business innovations for sustainable mobility by partnering with startup companies. Volvo Group now has four innovation hubs located across three continents – in France, Sweden, India, and the USA – as it has opened a new CampX Lyon in France.

Under the CampX concept, startups with promising technologies for electric and autonomous vehicles and digital solutions are invited to collaborate with Volvo’s chief engineers and business experts during short validation projects at the CampX innovation hubs.

CampX also offers an ecosystem where startups in an earlier phase are provided with mentoring, networks, and business insights by Volvo Group experts. Here they can validate their ideas and test them out at laboratories, workshops and in test vehicles.

Volvo Group accelerates sustainable mobility with opening of a new CampX Lyon innovation hub in France.

CampX Lyon will focus mainly on decarbonization, urban logistics, and uptime services to better support customer needs and help tackle the many challenges posed by continuously growing cities.

With seven partnership agreements signed already, CampX Lyon is on its way to validating and bringing new innovations to market through the collaborations with startups.

“Volvo Group is committed to the decarbonization of the transport industry by developing innovative technologies within electrification, automation, and digitalization,” introduced Lars Stenqvist, Chief Technology Officer Volvo Group. "CampX is our strategic engine to boost this transformation through partnerships with innovating startups. We co-create to accelerate."

Across all four of the CampX sites, engineers from Volvo Group work cross-functionally on a variety of global projects. By using a demand driven approach for new technology and business innovations, the time spent on product and strategy development can be significantly reduced.