Volvo’s First Electric Car to Be Made in China

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Volvo will produce its first fully electric car in China, the premium car maker announced at the Auto Shanghai trade fair. The new model will be based on Compact Modular Architecture (CMA), and is to be exported globally from China. The market launch is planned for 2019. "Volvo Cars fully supports the Chinese government’s call for cleaner air as outlined in the latest five-year plan. It is fully in-line with our own core values of environmental care, quality and safety", explains Håkan Samuelsson, president and CEO of Volvo Cars. "We believe that electrification is the answer to sustainable mobility." China is currently the world’s largest sales market for electrified cars and has ambitious targets to further expand sales of fully electric and hybrid cars in order to address congestion and air quality issues in its cities.

Volvo has a commitment to sell a total of one million of its electrified cars, both fully electric cars and hybrids, by 2025. The company is also developing a fully electric car on its Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) for larger models and is planning to offer plug-in hybrid versions of every model.

Volvo has three manufacturing facilities in China: Daqing, which makes its 90 series cars, Chengdu, which makes its 60 series cars, and Luqiao, which will make its 40 series cars.