Volvo Group AB makes trucks, heavy equipment and engines for marine use. Volvo Group AB makes Volvo trucks and owns Mack Trucks.

Volvo automotive was once part of the Volvo Group, but no more. So it is not a question of going back to “an enormous tank that can smash any obstacle/opponents.”

That all said, in 2007, Volvo Group AB introduced introduced two hybrid dump trucks – diesel/electric, using ultracapacitors, instead of batteries – based on the 2007 Mack model MP-7.

The 11 liter diesel engine in the MP-7, and the hybrids, produced 365 horsepower within 1,500 to 1,900 rpm. The real news was that the electric motor could produce a whopping 590 lb.ft of torque at peak output, with 295 lb.ft of continuous power.

Why is the real news? Well, because Volvo Group AB claimed 35 percent fuel savings for one. And if you like cleaner air in the cities where people live, in city use, much of the operation was based solely on the electric motor.

The two trucks Volvo – Volvo Group AB – were on their way for field testing at a U.S. Air Force base in Nevada. After seeing them in Washington D.C., lost track of them myself. But information might be out there. I took Volvo at their word on mileage.

What I want to see is a hybrid version of the Volvo FH-16. There’d be enough torque there to pull entire trees out of the ground – if one needed to do that.