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 (2021) | Markets served | |||
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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 | |||||||||||
YV1 | 1 | Torslanda, Sweden | 1962–present | Second Volvo Car plant | Manufacturing | XC60, V60, V60 Cross Country, V90, V90 Cross Country, XC90 | Worldwide | ||||
Debut model: Volvo Amazon | |||||||||||
Dartmouth Plant | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia< | -- DO NOT LINK SEPARATELY, see for further guidance -->, 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) | |||||||||||
YV1 | 2 | Ghent, Belgium | 1965–present | Second Volvo Car plant outside Sweden | Assembly (1965–1972) Manufacturing (1972–present) | XC40, V60, C40, EX30 (2025-)[1] | Worldwide | ||||
Debut model: Volvo Amazon | |||||||||||
Previously named Volvo Cars Europe Industry (1965–2007) | |||||||||||
3 | Halifax, Nova Scotia< | -- DO NOT LINK SEPARATELY, see for further guidance -->, Canada | 1967–1987 | Assembly | Canada, United States | ||||||
Canadian assembly shifted to Bayers Lake Assembly Plant (1987) | |||||||||||
PNV | 5 | Shah Alam, Malaysia | 1967–present | First Volvo Car plant in Asia | Manufacturing | XC40, S60, XC60, S90, XC90, C40 | Southeast Asia, Taiwan | ||||
First automobile plant in Malaysia | |||||||||||
Debut model: Volvo 144 | |||||||||||
Previously named Swedish Motor Assemblies (SMA) (1966–2012) | |||||||||||
YV1 | 0 | Kalmar, Sweden | 1974–1994 | Third Volvo Car plant in Sweden | Manufacturing | Worldwide | |||||
Debut model: Volvo 164 | |||||||||||
Shut down (1994) | |||||||||||
XLB YV1 | F | Born, Netherlands | 1975–2004 | Purchased from DAF (1975) | Manufacturing | Worldwide | |||||
Debut model: Volvo 66 | |||||||||||
Sold to Mitsubishi Motors (2001) | |||||||||||
Samut Prakan Plant Thai-Swedish Assembly (TSA) | Samut Prakan, Thailand | 1976–2011 | Assembly | Southeast Asia | |||||||
Sold to AB Volvo (2008) | |||||||||||
Bayers Lake Assembly Plant | Clayton Park, Nova Scotia< | -- DO NOT LINK SEPARATELY, see for further guidance -->, Canada | 1987–1998 | Assembly | Canada, United States | ||||||
Shut down (1998) | |||||||||||
Uddevalla Plant Auto Nova Plant (1995–2003) Pininfarina Sverige (2003–2013) | YV1 | J | Uddevalla, Sweden | 1988–1993 1997–2013 | 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 Plant | Bengaluru,India | 2015–Present | Manufacturing | S90, XC40, XC90 | India | ||||||
Chengdu Plant Zhongjia Automobile Manufacturing (Chengdu) (ZAMC) | LYV | B | Chengdu, China | 2013–present | First Volvo Car plant in China | Manufacturing | S60, XC60, EX90, EX30 | Worldwide | |||
Daqing Plant Daqing Volvo Car Manufacturing (DVCM) | LVY | P | Daqing, China | 2014–present | Manufacturing | S90, S90L | Worldwide | ||||
Commenced S90 exports to Europe via rail network (2017) | |||||||||||
S90 worldwide production hub will shift from Torslanda to Daqing | |||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||
South Carolina PlantSouth Carolina Factory (VCCH) | 7JR[2] | G | Ridgeville, South Carolina< | -- DO NOT LINK SEPARATELY, see for further guidance -->, United States | 2018–present | First Volvo Car plant in the United States | Manufacturing | S60 (2019–2024) EX90/ Polestar 3 | Worldwide | ||
Produced SPA-based S60 model | |||||||||||
Polestar Plant | LPS | B | Chengdu, China | 2019–2021 | First Polestar plant | Manufacturing | Polestar 1 | Worldwide |