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Volvo Cars sales up 10 per cent for the first quarter of 2023

Volvo Cars reports sales of 162,938 cars for the first three months of 2023, up 10 per cent compared with the same period last year. The sales growth was mainly led by the company’s fully electric cars.

For the month of March, Volvo Cars sold 63,132 cars globally, up eight per cent compared with the same month last year.

Volvo Cars’ Recharge line-up of chargeable models, with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain, remained popular in the first three months of the year, making up 41 per cent of all Volvo cars sold globally. The share of fully electric cars during the period ended up at 18 per cent.

In the first three months of 2023, the company’s European sales grew to 72,671 cars, up 12 per cent compared with the same period last year. The share of Recharge models reached 62 per cent of overall sales in the region.

Sales in the US grew by 16 per cent in the first three months of the year to 26,483 cars. Recharge models accounted for 29 per cent of overall sales during the first quarter.

China sales reached 36,457 cars, up two per cent in the first quarter compared with the same period last year. Sales of Recharge cars ended up at 11 per cent.

In March, the Volvo XC40 was the top-selling model with sales of 20,556 cars (2022: 17,584), followed by the XC60 with total sales at 18,090 cars (2022: 16,855 units) and the XC90 at 9,828 cars (2022: 9,141 units).

 

 

March
2023

March
2022


Change

 

Q1
2023

Q1
2022


Change

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Europe

29,957

26,954

11%

 

72,671

65,157

12%

Recharge

18,537

14,290

30%

 

45,055

34,110

32%

 – Fully electric

8,995

3,396

165%

 

21,047

7,592

177%

 – Plug-in hybrid

9,542 

10,894 

-12%

 

24,008

26,518

-10%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

China

11,608

12,378

-6%

 

36,457

35,698

2%

Recharge

1,442

1,314

10%

 

3,830

3,143

22%

 – Fully electric

435

263

65%

 

926

435

113%

 – Plug-in hybrid

1,007

1,051

-4%

 

2,904

2,708

7%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

US

10,230

9,428

9%

 

26,483

22,757

16%

Recharge

2,905

2,430

20%

 

7,711

6,018

29%

 – Fully electric

1,038

674

54%

 

2,782

1,658

68%

 – Plug-in hybrid

1,867

1,756

6%

 

4,929

4,360

13%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other

11,337

9,907

14%

 

27,327

24,683

11%

Recharge

4,099

2,804

46%

 

10,807

6,503

66%

 – Fully electric

2,153

923

133%

 

5,314

2,036

161%

 – Plug-in hybrid

1,946

1,881

4%

 

5,493

4,467

23%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

63,132

58,667

8%

 

162,938

148,295

10%

Recharge

26,983

20,838

30%

 

67,403

49,774

35%

 – Fully electric

12,621

5,256

140%

 

30,069

18,348

157%

 – Plug-in hybrid

14,362

15,582

-8%

 

37,334

38,053

-2%

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