Volvo Cars sales record in 2017

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Volvo's 90-range

Volvo Cars sales in 2017 reports record, as global sales rose 7.0 per cent compared to 2016 to 571,577 cars, driven by growth in all regions.

Sales of the new XC60 and the 90-series cars were the main drivers, highlighting the effect of Volvo Cars’ in-house developed Scalable Product Architecture, a modular car architecture, in terms of design, technology and brand.

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The new Volvo XC90

In the Asia Pacific region, sales grew by a strong 20.9 per cent on the back of a record performance in China, Volvo’s largest market, where sales increased 25.8 per cent compared with 2016. Meanwhile sales in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region grew by 3.3 per cent in 2017 compared to 2016, while the Americas region grew by 0.7 per cent.

2017 was a very important year for Volvo Cars in many ways. The launch of new XC60, which replaced the company’s best-selling model and the best-selling mid-sized SUV in Europe, premiered at the Geneva Auto Show in March.

Volvo Cars also announced that it would place electrification at the core of its future business and stated that every car it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor, marking the end of cars that only have an internal combustion engine.

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S90

Volvo also launched Polestar in a further commitment to electrification, a new stand-alone electrified car brand fully consolidated within the Volvo Car Group.

During the year, Volvo Cars also deepened its partnership with Geely Holding via the creation of a joint venture technology company to provide the economies of scale that will allow them to more rapidly develop next generation electrified vehicle technology. Volvo also announced it would take a 30 per cent stake in Geely’s new LYNK & CO car brand, based on the two entities’ joint Compact Modular Architecture.

In September was the introduction of the XC40, Volvo’s first offering in the fast growing small SUV segment and also invented a new model of car access with its ‘Care by Volvo’ subscription service, making having a car as transparent, easy and hassle free as having a phone. A concept introduced with the new XC40.

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XC60 T8 Inscription

Volvo Cars continued construction on a new manufacturing plant in South Carolina, its first in the United States, and it was announced that the plant would, in addition to the upcoming S60 mid-sized sedan, build the next generation XC90 from 2021. This takes Volvo Cars’ total investment in its US manufacturing operations to over USD 1.1 billion and will raise the total of new jobs created at the Charleston site to nearly 4,000.

In the last part of the year, Volvo Cars signed a framework agreement with Uber to sell tens of thousands of autonomous driving compatible base cars to the ride-hailing company between 2019 and 2021, opening in this way an entirely new market as it.

Retail sales status (deliveries to end customers) for Volvo Car Group is as follows:

 

    December January – December
    2016 2017 Change 2016 2017 Change
Region EMEA 35,450 32,905 -7.2% 310,821 320,988 3.3%
  Sweden 7,726 7,698 -0.4% 70,268 74,397 5.9%
Region Asia-Pacific 13,834 14,279 3.2% 126,314 152,668 20.9%
  China 10,171 10,066 -1.0% 90,930 114,410 25.8%
Region Americas 11,520 11,342 -1.5% 97,197 97,921 0.7%
  USA 10,127 9,679 -4.4% 82,720 81,504 -1.5%
TOTAL 60,804 58,526 -3.7% 534,332 571,577 7.0%

 

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