Volvo Cars plans to consolidate Polestar 3 production at its US plant
Volvo Cars and Polestar plan to consolidate the production of Polestar 3 cars at Volvo Cars’ US-based car plant in Ridgeville outside Charleston in South Carolina. The Polestar 3 is currently also produced in Chengdu, China.
This further reinforces the strategic role of Volvo’s US plant as a key manufacturing site for Volvo Cars and Polestar. Volvo Cars’ balanced and flexible global manufacturing footprint, with locations in China, Europe and the US, enables it to optimise its plants for the highest efficiency.
"The move to consolidate global Polestar 3 production in Charleston help generate efficiencies for both companies, whilst also underscoring our confidence in the plant and the role it plays in our manufacturing footprint,’ said Håkan Samuelsson, chief executive of Volvo Cars. ‘The US is a very important market for Volvo Cars, both to support our growth ambitions as well as a strategic production site to meet regional and export demands,"
Volvo’s US manufacturing facility is already a global production hub for the fully electric Volvo EX90 SUV. The EX90 is built on Volvo Cars’ SPA2 architecture, which also underpins the Polestar 3. Apart from building Polestar 3 cars in the US, Volvo Cars previously announced that it will introduce its best-selling XC60 mid-size SUV to the South Carolina production line as well.
Following the XC60, Volvo Cars also plans to add a new, next-generation hybrid model to the production line of the plant in Ridgeville outside Charleston, South Carolina before 2030. This new model is designed to meet the specific demands of the US market and reinforces Volvo’s long-term commitment to manufacturing in the country.
Volvo Cars has invested USD 1.3 billion in the South Carolina facility in the last decade, to make it ready for the future. The plant currently has an installed production capacity of 150,000 cars per year. Together with its factories in Europe and China, the Charleston plant has an important role in Volvo Cars’ future growth plans and its increased focus on regional tailoring of products.
