Volvo now builds its ex30electric automotive in Ghent, Belgium, in a strategic step to mount key fashions nearer to the markets the place they promote finest.

The little SUV was beforehand composed solely in Zhangjiakou, China, earlier than being despatched around the globe.

Nevertheless, in October 2023, Volvo determined that the addition of the manufacturing capability for the mannequin within the European Union would assist to raised meet the important area. The ex30 was the thirteenth bestseller EV through the first three months of 2025, earlier than vehicles such because the Audi This fall e-tron, Cupra Born and Mercedes-Benz Eqa.

The choice to arrange the Ghent plant for the ex30 was ratified when the European Union constructed penalty charges on Chinese language final yr, together with the Volvo crossing.

On the time, Volvo stated it might think about the output of its vehicles, in order that the Belgian constructed vehicles have been primarily delivered contained in the EU and bypassed the charges.

Conversely, deliveries from Chinese language constructed vehicles in non-EU markets would sharpen the place charges weren’t a priority, such because the UK.

“We begin (ex30) manufacturing at our Ghent facility in Belgium within the first half of subsequent yr after which undergo the gears,” the previous Volvo CEO final yr stated.

“Within the meantime, we will ship the automotive to many different areas that aren’t but affected (by charges): many international locations in Southeast Asia, and the UK is an instance of that.”

Francesca Gamboni, chief manufacturing and provide chain officer for Volvo, has now stated the ex30 is ‘decisive’ for the place of the model in Europe, including that its manufacturing boweliness contributes ‘to our resilience’.