Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Swedish term
PV
we are now in the 1950s and
Unga svenskar, som bildade hem, drömde om ***PV***, tv och wc.
Could PV be polyvinyl = records cos it's not polyvoltaic solar panels!
Thanks
| 5 +2 | Volvo PV |
Anders Ericsson
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Proposed translations
Sweden
20 years smoking translations that bite
Native in: Swedish 
Works in: English to Swedish, Swedish to English, Danish to Swedish, and 2 more.
Volvo PV
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Note added at 12 mins (2018-08-14 17:56:14 GMT)
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It's common in sweden to refer to Volvo PV as just PV.
Discussion
I'm looking at this now. The problem is that Google is always changing and the handy tool to do searches by location and language disappeared but now seems to be back.
My search results are already much better :)
Search algorithms can also take in account personal preferences and earlier searches.
And two letter acronyms aren't exactly the easiest to know. They can easily be several things. swedes in my generation all know that PV in this context refers to the car, but for someone who is not native or who is younger it's not at all self-evident what is meant. So absolutely no shame asking on that.
I can assure you that I do try to find things first and got no hits but after your remarks, I will have to check if my settings are okay for Google. This is because I live in France, often search for French, Swedish and sometimes English words
I even loaded the Swedish news page first and then ran a Google web search but nothing
However, if I load the Swedish news page and then search in "news", yes, it comes up first
I didn't expect this as news is normally current and the period I'm now covering is the 1950s but indeed it does find "nostalgic" articles about the PV
So when I have time, I'll try to find a way to toggle better between Swedish, French and English searches
I also have memoQ programmed to do web searches on 12 sites and they too did not give me any results.
So thanks for your observation but please believe me if I say that I do ran multiple searches
Regards