Volvo has chosen to manufacture part of the XC60 in the United States
- In response to the threat of US tariffs on car imports from Europe, Volvo announced several months ago that it was considering increasing production in the United States, at its American plant in Ridgeville, South Carolina. This plant currently manufactures the all-electric Volvo EX90 (E-segment) and Polestar 3 (E-segment) SUVs, but with demand lower than expected, due to a sluggish electric market in the United States and the positioning of the two models being a bit too high-end, only 16,000 vehicles were produced at this plant for a capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year. Inovev had estimated that the best-selling Volvo models in North America could be produced at the Ridgeville site, such as the XC90 SUVs (39,492 units), XC60 (38,892 units), and XC40 (26,557 units).
- Finally, Volvo has just announced that an additional model produced at the Ridgeville site will indeed be the XC60 SUV for North American markets. The transfer of production of approximately 50,000 XC60s per year from Sweden to the USA will take place in the fall of 2026, that is, at the time of the launch of the new generation of the XC60 (which will be available in an all-electric version called EX60). It is possible that a second Volvo SUV will be added to the Ridgeville plant in 2028, and this could be the XC90 currently produced at the Swedish carmaker's site in Gothenburg.
- The consequence of this or these transfers is that the Swedish site in Gothenburg, the current production site for the XC60 and XC90, will lose between 50,000 and 100,000 vehicles per year, which will have an impact on the volume of vehicle production in Europe.