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Volvo Penta is now launching an Internet sales channel through www.volvopentashop.com. This web shop offers new opportunities for end customers to purchase spare parts and accessories, quickly, easily and securely.

The shipyard Baltic Workboats has signed a contract of designing and building of a 16 meter fast pilot boat equipped with twin IPS1050 units.

With the IPS system, Volvo Penta has revolutionised the market for traditional inboard installations. Five years after its launch, there are already more than 10,000 IPS units on the market. The IPS program is now being expanded still further. With new and larger drive units coupled to the 13 liter engine, Volvo Penta will launch a further two power classes, IPS1050 and IPS1200, this year.

With Volvo Penta’s IPS system, the customer has access to several smart accessories that makes boating simpler and more environmentally friendly.

Ya está aquí el D3, el nuevo motor dentro-fuera borda diesel de Volvo Penta, compacto y con tecnología de motor ultramoderna. El nuevo D3, disponible en cuatro versiones de potencia de 140 a 220 CV, es más rápido, más potente, más limpio y silencioso que su antecesor. Y ahora también está disponible con joystick.

El nuevo Volvo Penta D3 cuenta con la tecnología de motor más avanzada de que se dispone actualmente en el mercado. Este ultramoderno motor diesel se presenta ahora en dos versiones, de 110 y 150 CV, que ofrecen a los patrones de veleros un funcionamiento de motor más limpio, silencioso y cómodo.

La nueva generación de motores intraborda de Volvo, la gama D3, es aun mas amplia. Nada menos que cinco versiones entre un rango de potencias de 110 a 220 CV, siendo las dos inferiores de motores de bajas revoluciones para embarcaciones de desplazamiento. Control de cambio y aceleración electrónicos, y niveles de emisiones, ruido y vibraciones aún más bajos son algunas de las nuevas características.

Watching whales is a unique natural experience in sensitive marine environments. When a new whale-watching boat was recently launched in New Zealand, it was preceded by meticulous tests to identify the most environmentally sound engine alternative.

When the Formula 1 race in Abu Dhabi took place this weekend, 44 Volvo Penta diesel engines provided the electrical power for the lighting around the track.

As a result of the best environmental features, Volvo Penta has been appointed official supplier of diesel engines to 22 passenger ferries being built for the World Expo in Shanghai, China next year.