Volvo Cars will invest 10 billion crowns ($1.1 billion) to prepare its largest and oldest car plant for the electric-car era.
A key part of the transformation will be switching to megacasting for large aluminum body parts.
"This is the biggest technology shift since we switched from wood to steel [for car bodies]," Volvo Solution Architect Vehicle Platform Mikael Fermer told Automotive News Europe.
Volvo's head of engineering and operations, Javier Varela, said the change results in a 75 percent time savings compared with how large aluminum body parts are put together now.