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Volvo flags challenging global market as sales slide 7%

In the full year 2025, sales volumes dropped 7 per cent.
In the full year 2025, sales volumes dropped 7 per cent.

Sweden-based Volvo ⁠Cars sold 177,830 cars in the November-January period, down 7 per cent from the same ‌period a ‌year earlier, it said on Wednesday.

Volvo Cars, ‌which is majority-owned by China’s Geely Holding, said in a statement sales volumes for fully electric models rose ​13 per cent to account ​for 24 per cent of all cars ‌sold ‍in the period.

Meanwhile, sales of ‍electrified cars as a whole, also including ‌plug-in hybrids, were down 2 per cent.

“Sales figures from the past three months highlight a challenging market across regions with continued pricing and competitive pressures, ‍further worsened by unfavourable regulatory developments in the US,” Volvo ‍Cars ⁠said.

Shares in ⁠the company, which is due to publish its earnings report for 2025 on Thursday. were up 1.5 per cent in early trade.

In the full year 2025, sales volumes dropped 7 per cent.>

  • Published On Feb 4, 2026 at 03:43 PM IST

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