, “I am totally convinced there will be no customers who really want to stay with a petrol engine.” Just 8 years away from that point, the company is far from 100% electric, but it’s going in the right direction.shows that 5.7% of the company’s global auto sales were fully electric auto sales in August. Plugin vehicles overall accounted for 21.9% of sales., 47.8% of Volvo Cars sales were Recharge models in August, 10.6% were full electrics. In August, full electric sales were up 89.6%.
Almost across the board, plugin hybrid sales were down year over year. It was only looking at January–August sales in the US that they had a year-over-year increase .” numbers were most interesting of all. In August, full electrics were up 192.3% . In the first 8 months of 2022, they were up 1128.7%! That was going from 404 to 4,964.You can see that Volvo Cars sales were down overall 4.6% in August and a whopping 21.5% in January–August.