Volvo Cars Pioneers Two-hour In-car Delivery Service With Swedish Start-up urb-it

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GOTHENBURG, Sweden, May 10, 2016 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

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Volvo Cars, a leader in the field of connectivity in the automotive sector, is

set to disrupt the delivery experience with the introduction a new service that

promises In-car Delivery of your online shopping in under two hours.

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The ground-breaking collaboration with Swedish start-up urb-it will enable

Volvo Cars to expand its tried and tested In-car Delivery Service and provide a

foundation for a game-changing approach to delivery services, while reimagining

how we use our cars.

"We understand the value of the In-car Delivery service we have developed.

We've all had phone calls at work from delivery people trying to deliver

packages to our homes that need to be signed for when there is no one home.

With our In-car Delivery service we effectively turn your car into a delivery

location and assign a one-time digital key to the delivery person, effectively

eliminating delivery failure," said Bjorn Annwall, Senior Vice President

Marketing Sales and Service at Volvo Car Group.

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urb-it's real-time delivery service ensures you get the item you have ordered

within two hours of clicking the buy button on your smartphone, radically

changing the online shopping experience people are used to. The Swedish

start-up employs students and other part-time workers who get paid per delivery

and uses geo-location and availability to choose your personal urber, as the

delivery people are known.

Each urber is strictly vetted by urb-it to ensure a high-class service and

traceability. You always know the name of the individual urber that is

delivering your shopping. Once the urber receives your order on their mobile

device they collect the items at the shop by presenting the special order code.

They then take your package and deliver it directly to your car in under two

hours.

"It's really quite simple, which is what makes it so effective. You shop online

from an urb-it enabled store and simply choose to have the shopping delivered

to your Volvo. This can be at a pre-determined time that suits you, or as

quickly as possible. You can follow the collection and delivery process on your

mobile device if you wish, or just wait for confirmation of delivery. If the

package is not delivered in less than two hours, delivery is free," said Bjorn

Annwall.

Volvo Cars launched In-car Delivery commercially on Black Friday 2015 together

with Sweden's largest distribution company and an online food store. The

premium car maker is now offering a range of connected car services to its

customers in select markets utilising its digital key technology which allows

Volvo owners to grant one-time access to their cars for In-car Delivery

purposes. Volvo Cars is working toward expanding this range of services to its

customers around the globe.

Volvo Cars is adding urb-it to its In-car Delivery services in Stockholm City

for an initial trial period during 2016. Availability to Volvo owners will

increase as the urb-it service expands to several European cities this year and

over 200 cities worldwide by 2025.

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