Volvo's July sales take a dip
The rampant shortage of semiconductors has also affected sales, not to mention the automotive manufacturing sector as a whole.
Volvo sold a total of 437,640 cars around the world from January 2021 to July 2021, a sizable jump of almost 32% from last year’s 332,253 pandemic sales over the same timeframe.
According to Volvo's sales breakdown for the month of July, the XC60 was the top performer at 19,132 cars. The XC40 followed with 15,097 cars sold. The XC90 managed 9,694 total sales. Interestingly, only one of these models, the XC40, was less popular this year than last.
The XC40 might not have done as well globally, but in Europe it was the top seller, beating out the XC60. Total European sales for the automaker from January to July 2021 amounted to 189,230 units, up almost 25% over this period in 2020.
Volvo sales in the United States
High demand for the XC60 and XC90 spurred US July sales to increase almost 20% over July 2020 for a total of 11,575 cars. From January to July 2021, US sales rose by an astonishing 42.3% to 75,329 cars, securing the highest increase across all markets compared to the same period last year.