"This is not a vehicle crisis - on the contrary"

He agrees that it is worrying when large companies like so many depend on notifying employees.

- But it's double bottomed. If there is somewhere to be notified as an engineer, it is in Western Sweden. Here, the need for engineering know-how is enormous. Not only in the automotive industry but in many industries, he says and begins to list a number of them.

- It is also exciting to see that Volvo Cars is doing this to get a faster changeover to a more sustainable mobility company, he adds.

He dismisses the question of a new crisis for the automotive industry.

- Then you think about what it looked like ten years ago. But that is an incredible difference. Then Volvo had an owner (Ford) who wanted to sell the company, they had an outdated model program, sold crap, had poor cash and confidence was extremely broken, he says and continues:

- Now they have an owner (Geely) who wants to invest, a model program that is super modern and they roll out one news after another. They have set records in sales, have a good cash register and solid self-confidence.

Johan Trouvé reveals that Volvo Cars will soon launch a project that will put Gothenburg on the map.

- It is a very exciting zero-emission project that will touch Gothenburg and Mölndal. There you want to show the whole world how to transform a city into sustainable, climate-smart mobility with public transport, self-driving vehicles, sharing economy, new infrastructure and more.

No one knows how long the crisis with the coronas center will continue. Johan Trouvé thinks it will be easy after the summer. And that Western Sweden is then well equipped to get out of the crisis quickly. He points out that, before the crisis, Western Sweden was the locomotive in the Swedish economy, with the largest upswing since the post-war period.

- We have factories that are still rolling on. In many countries, production is at a standstill and people are not even allowed to leave their homes. Sure, many companies are knocked out, but it happens in other countries too - companies that have been competitors to Swedish companies. It benefits us, he says.