The following list includes manufacturing and assembly plants wholly owned or wholly operated by the Volvo Car Corporation, in addition to joint-venture plants in which Volvo Car held equity stakes.
The list excludes plants belonging to AB Volvo and Volvo Car parent companies, as well as contract assembly plants in which Volvo Car held no equity stake.
Name WMI Plant code Location Commenced production Notable milestones Operational scale Production(2010) Marketsserved Lundby Plant Lundby,Sweden 1927–1973 First Volvo Car plant Manufacturing Worldwide Debut model: Volvo ÖV 4 Purchased from SKF (1930) Transferred to Volvo Trucks and Volvo Penta Torslanda PlantVolvo Cars Torslanda(VCT) YV1 1 Torslanda,Sweden 1962–present Second Volvo Car plant Manufacturing XC60, V60, V60 Cross Country, XC90 Worldwide Debut model: Volvo Amazon Dartmouth Plant Dartmouth, Nova Scotia,Canada 1963–1967 First Volvo Car plant outside Sweden Assembly Canada Third non-domestic automobile plant in North America Debut model: Volvo Canadian Canadian assembly shifted to Halifax Plant (1967) Ghent PlantVolvo Car Gent(VCG) YV1 2 Ghent,Belgium 1965–present Second Volvo Car plant outside Sweden Assembly(1965–1972)Manufacturing(1972–present) XC40, V60, EX30, EC40 Worldwide Debut model: Volvo Amazon Previously namedVolvo Cars Europe Industry(1965–2007) Halifax PlantVolvo Halifax Assembly(VHA) 3 Halifax, Nova Scotia,Canada 1967–1987 Debut model: Volvo 144 Assembly Canada, United States Canadian assembly shifted to Bayers Lake Assembly Plant (1987) Shah Alam PlantVolvo Car Manufacturing Malaysia(VCMM) PNV 5 Shah Alam,Malaysia 1967–present First Volvo Car plant in Asia Manufacturing XC40, S60, XC60, S90, XC90, C40, EX30 Southeast Asia, Taiwan First automobile plant in Malaysia Debut model: Volvo 144 Previously namedSwedish Motor Assemblies (SMA)(1966–2012) Kalmar PlantVolvo Kalmar Assembly(VKA) YV1 0 Kalmar,Sweden 1974–1994 Third Volvo Car plant in Sweden Manufacturing Worldwide Debut model: Volvo 164 Shut down (1994) Born PlantNetherlands Car(NedCar) XLBYV1 F Born,Netherlands 1975–2004 Purchased from DAF (1975) Manufacturing Worldwide Debut model: Volvo 66 Sold to Mitsubishi Motors (2001) Samut Prakan PlantThai-Swedish Assembly(TSA) Samut Prakan,Thailand 1976–2011 Debut model: Volvo 240 Assembly Southeast Asia Sold to AB Volvo (2008) Bayers Lake Assembly Plant Clayton Park, Nova Scotia,Canada 1987–1998 Debut model: Volvo 740 Assembly Canada, United States Shut down (1998) Uddevalla PlantAuto Nova Plant (1995–2003)Pininfarina Sverige (2003–2013) YV1 J Uddevalla,Sweden 1988–19931997–2013 Debut model: Volvo 740 Custom Worldwide Pioneered a new approach to automobile assembly Production halted in 1993 Resumed production in 1997 as Auto Nova through a joint venture between Volvo Cars and Tom Walkinshaw Racing Became Pininfarina Sverige in 2003 through a joint venture between Volvo Cars and Pininfarina Shut down (2013)Bengaluru PlantYV1 Bengaluru,India2007–presentFirst Volvo Car Assembly plant in India and joint venture with Ghent, BelgiumAssembly(2007–present)Manufacturing(2014–present)XC40, S60, S90, XC60, XC90India Chengdu PlantZhongjia Automobile Manufacturing (Chengdu)(ZAMC) LYV B Chengdu,China 2013–present First Volvo Car plant in China Manufacturing S60, XC60, EX90, EX30 Worldwide Daqing PlantDaqing Volvo Car Manufacturing(DVCM) LVY P Daqing,China 2014–present Debut model: Volvo XC90 Classic Manufacturing S90, S90L Worldwide Commenced S90 exports to Europe via rail network (2017) S90 worldwide production hub will shift from Torslanda to Daqing Volvo Car Charleston Plant Volvo Car US Operations (VCCH)7JRGRidgeville, South Carolina,United States 2018–present First Volvo Car plant in the United States ManufacturingEX90, Polestar 3 Worldwide Produced SPA-based S60 model Luqiao Plant (CMA Super Factory)Zhejiang Kingkong Automobile Co. Ltd.(ZKA) Luqiao,China 2019–present Will produce CMA-based 40 series models Manufacturing XC40, Polestar 2 Worldwide First Lynk & Co plant Polestar Plant LPS B Chengdu,China 2019–2021 First Polestar plant Manufacturing Polestar 1Worldwide
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