Volvo Cars sales fall 10% in March as fully electric sales dive
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Volvo Cars sold 70,737 cars in March, down 10% from a year earlier as sales of fully electric cars tumbled, the Sweden-based company said on Wednesday, sending its shares down. Volvo Cars, which is majority-owned by China's Geely, said in a statement sales in Europe were down 9% while in the United States and China they were down 8% and 22%, respectively. Sales of fully electric cars fell 26% to account for 19% of total sales, while sales of electrified cars as a whole, also including plug-in hybrids, were down 9% to 43% of total sales.