48% of Volvo Cars’ Sales Now Plugin Vehicles — Globally

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Volvo Vehicles is yet one more automaker highlighting its EV gross sales progress final quarter. After a number of months of doom and gloom about “falling” EV gross sales — headline after headline after headline, to not point out real-world discussions — we certain are seeing lots of automakers boast about booming EV gross sales final quarter.

Within the case of Volvo Vehicles, 48% of all of the vehicles it offered in June have been plugin vehicles! Its plugin automobile gross sales grew a whopping 41%. On the identical time, its general gross sales grew 8%. That tells us that Volvo’s non-plugin automobile gross sales truly declined. Yay.

Simply full battery electrics (BEVs), these accounted for 36% of the companiess gross sales.

The Volvo Ex30, which has been an enormous hit in all places it’s been launched, was highlighted as a key cause for the model’s EV gross sales bounce.

Volvo Vehicles additionally famous that it was comparatively sturdy ends in Europe and Latin America which have pushed the expansion. In Europe, gross sales have been up tremendously, pushed by EVs. “In Europe, sales reached 36,474 cars in June, up 34 per cent compared to the same period last year. The sales of Volvo Cars’ electrified models increased by 54 per cent compared to the same period last year, and the share of electrified models accounted for 66 per cent of all cars sold in Europe during June,” the company writes.

In China, Volvo gross sales have been down, however plugin gross sales have been once more up. “Volvo Cars’ sales in China reached 14,049 cars, down 9 per cent compared to June 2023. Sales of electrified models – fully electric and plug-in hybrid models – stood at 1,448 sold cars, an increase of 12 per cent compared to the same period last year. ”

The US market was an odd one. Initially, there was some huge IT downtime I wasn’t even conscious of. Secondly, PHEV gross sales spiked up, however BEV gross sales presumably hit somewhat nosedive. Right here’s how Volvo summarized it: “Sales in the US decreased 28 percent in June, totaling 9,304 cars. However, sales of plug-in hybrid models went up 75 percent compared to the same period last year. The decline in US sales was partly due to widespread IT-related disturbances that beset thousands of dealerships across the industry during the month of June, forcing a halt to normal operations.”

It could be nice to get somewhat extra data on the BEV portion of gross sales in every market, however Volvo’s efficiency final month and final quarter was clearly improved an excellent deal by the Volvo EX30 BEV and by progress of BEV gross sales in some areas and PHEV gross sales in others.