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Volvo Penta is a Sweden marine and industrial engine manufacturer, a joint stock company within the Volvo. Volvo Penta evolved from a foundry in Skövde 1907, when the first marine engine, the B1, was manufactured. The name Penta was created about 1916.
retrieved 18 October 2024. The Penta company soon became an established internal combustion engine manufacturer, which in 1927 delivered the engine for Volvo's first passenger car.
Volvo acquired Penta in 1935 and Volvo Penta has been part of the Volvo Group since then. In 1973, the production of outboard motors was acquired. In this process, the Archimedes brand was purchased from the company Electrolux, which had also acquired it in 1941. Archimedes itself was a Swedish company that was a pioneer in the manufacture of outboard motors. It now provides internal combustion engines (ICEs) and complete power systems to the marine industry, power generation equipment, and similar industrial applications. The business also manufacturers sterndrive and inboard drive systems such as the Volvo Penta IPS. The engine program comprises petroleum fuel (diesel engines and petrol engine) engines with power outputs of between .
The company expanded heavily in the early 1900s, and started producing and for hydraulic power plants. In 1907, a very fruitful co-operation with the Stockholm-based engineering company Fritz Egnell began, with a one-cylinder 3 hp compression ignition engine. The engine was simply named B1 - but a five-man committee was set to find a name that would catch on. The committee failed to agree on a catchy name, but because it had five members, settled for Penta.
In 1916, Egnell bought the company and the name changed to AB Pentaverken. Production was concentrated on engines, mostly for sea applications. The years immediately after World War I were economically harsh, but a new product was introduced: a small two cylinder U2 outboard engine designed by Carl-Axel Skärlund. The U2 was slightly improved in 1926, and renamed U21 and remained in production until 1962. The U2/U21 was a great success and exported worldwide. In many countries, U21 is still synonymous with outboard engine.
In 1925, Penta was approached by Assar Gabrielsson, the founder of Volvo, who needed an engine for the first Volvo automobile. Penta then designed the four cylinder 28 hp side valve Typ DA engine for the Volvo ÖV 4. In 1935, Penta became a subsidiary of Volvo.
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