Volvo Cars has previously produced the electric car EX90, as well as Polestar, at the factory outside Charleston in South Carolina. From next year, the company will also start manufacturing its XC60 model in the USA.
We have had a long-standing strategy of building the cars where we sell them. The decision to place XC60 production in Charleston is actually a consequence of that. Then you have to honestly say that even tariffs and other types of trade aspects are taken into account in such a decision, says Erik Severinsson, global sales manager at Volvo Cars.
Production at Volvo Cars' factory in Torslanda will not be affected, even though it is where the XC60 cars for the American market are built today. Instead, a change program has been launched to start production of the new electric car EX60 there after the New Year.
So we do not see it as if we are taking anything away from Torslanda, just that we enable a successful launch of EX60.
Volvo Cars will also add production of a hybrid model at the factory in Charleston before 2030.
We have high hopes for the sales of EX90 and the cars we build there today – and to increase it. But we also see that XC60 and a future new plug-in hybrid will be able to complement the capacity of 150,000 cars per year that we have in Charleston today, says Erik Severinsson.
