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Volvo Cars global sales up 31% in May; fully electric cars up 196%

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Volvo Cars reported global sales of 60,398 cars in May, up 31% compared with the same month last year. The company’s fully electric cars were the main contributor to the growth, rising 196% during the period to 10,826 units (). The share of fully electric cars stood at 18%.

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UK’s best fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars named in 2022 What Car? Electric Car Awards

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The UK’s best new and used electric and plug-in hybrid cars for every budget have been revealed at the 2022 What Car? Electric Car Awards. Now in their third year, the awards were launched following a surge of interest in electric and hybrid cars on the What Car?

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Volvo Cars reports May sales, 48 percent share of plug-in vehicles

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Volvo Cars reports global sales of 68,034 cars in May, up 13 percent compared to the same period last year. The sales increase was primarily driven by a strong performance in Europe as well as the company’s fully electric small SUV, the EX30.

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Volvo Car USA fully electric vehicle sales reach 7.2% of total in 2022

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Volvo Car USA reported sales of 102,038 cars for the full year 2022, down 16.5% The share of fully electric Volvo cars reached 7.2% In the month of December, Volvo Car USA sold 11,111 cars, up 6.4%compared As a whole, the Americas Region sold 38,538 Recharge cars last year, a 9.5% year-on-year.

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Volvo Cars to triple electric car production capacity in Ghent after strong year of electrified car sales

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Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The share of Recharge cars as a percentage of total sales more than doubled in 2020, compared to 2019. in the region for the whole year.

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Volvo Cars reports April sales, 48 percent share of plug-in vehicles

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The sales increase was primarily driven by a strong performance in Europe as well as the company’s fully electric small SUV, the EX30.

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Volvo Cars reports Full Year 2022 sales, share of fully electric cars at 10.9%

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Volvo Cars today reported sales of 615,121 cars for the full year 2022, down 12.0 The share of fully electric Volvo cars reached 10.9 appeared first on Electric Cars Report. per cent compared with last year. per cent during the year, compared with 3.7 per cent last year.