Volvo Car Korea Conducts EV Rescue Training for About 100 Firefighters in Busan

[Financial News] Volvo Car Korea supported the electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) Volvo EX90 at the 2026 Firefighter Vehicle Safety Rescue Seminar held in Haeundae, Busan, on the 2nd. It also provided safety rescue training for firefighters across the country.
The seminar was hosted by the Automobile Safety Research Institute of the Korea Transportation Safety Authority. It was organized to help firefighters who rescue people at accident scenes understand the structure and characteristics of electric vehicles, including their high-voltage batteries.
With about 100 fire-rescue personnel from across the country taking part, Volvo Car Korea placed a Volvo EX90 at the site and provided training based on its safety manual. The program covered the locations and identification methods for key high-voltage system components, the risks associated with each piece of equipment and how to shut them down in an accident, as well as vehicle-body cutting points for rescuing occupants. A vehicle-body structure expert also joined the session, sharing cases and expertise relevant to real rescue situations and answering participants’ questions.
Volvo Car Corporation, which celebrates its 99th anniversary this year, has continued pursuing various innovations with safety as a core brand value. In particular, the company is known to have helped save more than one million lives by sharing its patent for the three-point safety belt in 1959. 
In addition, the safety center in Gothenburg conducts tests that go beyond standardized testing to study the complex and varied collision situations that occur in real traffic accidents. Since 1970, the company has also operated its own Traffic Accident Research Team, which visits accident scenes on actual roads and collects data on road and traffic conditions, the time of the incident, the cause of the collision and the resulting damage.
A Volvo Car Korea representative said, "By analyzing more than 50,000 crashes involving over 80,000 occupants, we have driven advances such as cervical spine protection, side-impact airbags and advanced driver-assistance systems. To help make roads safer for everyone, we have been making the safety research data accumulated over the years publicly available through the Equal Vehicles for All (E.V.A.) Initiative since 2019," the representative said.

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