Volvo’s highest-mileage plug-in hybrid is going away

The Volvo S60 sedan—which in Recharge kind is presently the Swedish automaker’s most effective plug-in hybrid—is being discontinued within the U.S.

Motor1 first reported that S60 manufacturing would finish at Volvo’s Ridgeville, South Carolina, manufacturing facility (positioned close to the town of Charleston) this month. That was telegraphed by Volvo in 2021, when the automaker introduced that the South Carolina manufacturing facility would go all-electric in 2024, earlier than its different vegetation—even these in China, the place EV demand is far larger.

The top of U.S. manufacturing left open the likelihood that the S60 would proceed right here as an import, however Volvo has now confirmed to Inexperienced Automotive Experiences that this may not be the case.

2025 Volvo S60

“S60 won’t proceed within the U.S. as an import,” Volvo spokesperson Russell Datz informed Inexperienced Automotive Experiences. “About 120,000 have been offered globally for the reason that Charleston plant was inaugurated 2018.” The V60 wagon by-product can be anticipated to go away, although it comes from a plant in Belgium quite than South Carolina—though Volvo hasn’t but made that a part of it official.

Together with its last 2025 model-year run, which can be reduce a bit quick, the S60 can have been offered within the U.S. for 25 mannequin years, spanning three generations. Along with inaugurating U.S. manufacturing, the ultimate technology, which launched for the 2019 mannequin 12 months, introduced a plug-in hybrid powertrain. Initially, solely the sporty S60 Polestar Engineered was obtainable as a plug-in hybrid, however Volvo later launched a extra wise Recharge mannequin.

2025 Volvo S60

Volvo confirmed that the intently associated V60 T8 and Cross Nation sport-wagon variants will proceed for 2025 as properly, though it declined touch upon what occurs after that. These fashions are constructed for the U.S. in Belgium.

Because it heads to retirement, the S60 Recharge leads different Volvo plug-in hybrids in electrical vary (at 41 miles) and gas financial system (31 mpg mixed), because of a bigger 14.9-kwh battery pack that arrived for mannequin 12 months 2023. Earlier fashions with the smaller 10.4-kwh pack have been rated at 22 miles of electrical vary and 30 mpg mixed.

Volvo has extra comprehensively match its plug-in hybrids into its EV product technique than some other full-line automaker. It is even gone as far as to mask its tailpipes. However now the main focus is shifting extra absolutely to EVs. The all-electric EX90 SUV has already began manufacturing in South Carolina, and the Polestar 3 from Volvo’s spinoff model will quickly observe.