The Volvo S60 sedan—which in Recharge form is currently the Swedish automaker’s best plug-in hybrid—is being discontinued within the U.S.
Motor1 first reported that S60 production would end at Volvo’s Ridgeville, South Carolina, factory (situated near town of Charleston) this month. That was telegraphed by Volvo in 2021, when the automaker announced that the South Carolina factory would go all-electric in 2024, before its other plants—even those in China, where EV demand is far higher.
The tip of U.S. production left open the likelihood that the S60 would proceed here as an import, but Volvo has now confirmed to Green Automotive Reports that this would possibly not be the case.
2025 Volvo S60
“S60 won’t proceed within the U.S. as an import,” Volvo spokesperson Russell Datz told Green Automotive Reports. “About 120,000 have been sold globally for the reason that Charleston plant was inaugurated 2018.” The V60 wagon derivative can also be expected to go away, though it comes from a plant in Belgium fairly than South Carolina—although Volvo hasn’t yet made that a part of it official.
Including its final 2025 model-year run, which could also be cut a bit short, the S60 could have been sold within the U.S. for 25 model years, spanning three generations. Along with inaugurating U.S. production, the ultimate generation, which launched for the 2019 model 12 months, brought a plug-in hybrid powertrain. Initially, only the sporty S60 Polestar Engineered was available as a plug-in hybrid, but Volvo later introduced a more sensible Recharge model.
2025 Volvo S60
Because it heads to retirement, the S60 Recharge leads other Volvo plug-in hybrids in electric range (at 41 miles) and fuel economy (31 mpg combined), because of a bigger 14.9-kwh battery pack that arrived for model 12 months 2023. Earlier models with the smaller 10.4-kwh pack were rated at 22 miles of electrical range and 30 mpg combined.
Volvo has more comprehensively fit its plug-in hybrids into its EV product strategy than some other full-line automaker. It’s even gone to date as to mask its tailpipes. But now the main focus is shifting more fully to EVs. The all-electric EX90 SUV has already began production in South Carolina, and the Polestar 3 from Volvo’s spinoff brand will soon follow.
This Article First Appeared At www.greencarreports.com
