Whereupon Ove bought yet one more Saab 9000 and Rune eventually went over to a Volvo 760, after which Ove got himself a Saab 9000i and Rune part-exchanged to a Volvo 760 Turbo.
Green said the move to electric vehicles will help Volvo " meet the expectations of our customers and be part of the solution when it comes to fighting climate change" .
They are stout free-traders who resist the temptation to intervene even to protect iconic companies : Sweden let Saab go bankrupt and Volvo is now owned by China's Geeley.
Meanwhile, the country's biggest car maker, Volvo, invented the industry-changing 3-point safety belt, giving up the patent so any automaker could use it in their vehicles.
In the past decade industrial giants have pursued Western competitors from carmaking (as with Geely's purchase of Volvo) to chemicals (ChemChina's of Syngenta).