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Insights of batteries, the type of setup that is pretty traditional in

How does the North American market com- marine, in a sense, in bigger boats and in slower boats. pare to others globally? What are some of the

What is interesting now is that it moves into high perfor- key differentiators that lead Volvo Penta to sep- mance boats or boats that are run at higher speeds. That I arate it from the global business?

think is the real opportunity for us as well.

JI: I would say that it’s not so much the structural differ- ence that makes us run it that way. It is to make sure that

How do you see the recent CARB harbor craft we have both from engineering to executive presence with emissions rule changes in California, and how customers. We’d like to have very broad and deep touch do they impact Volvo Penta?

points with the different segments we operate with, with the OEMs, with the dealer structure. It’s more a setup to JI: Being part of Volvo Group, we have a ton of experience in advanced emissions aftertreatment systems, because as we make sure that we’re close to the business rather than it be- know, marine is kind of coming in a natural sequence be- ing a different business. So, we have engineering capabil- ity, we have purchasing capability, we have production out hind the passenger cars. It’s more or less always