Volvo Cars sales fall 12% in June, fully electric tumble 26%

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden-based Volvo Cars reported on Wednesday a fourth straight month of falling sales volumes, pressured by trade tariffs and weaker electric vehicle demand.

Volvo Cars, which is majority-owned by China's Geely, said in a statement it sold 62,858 cars in June, a 12% drop from a year earlier.

The group, which in April withdrew its earnings forecast for the next two years in the face of tariffs, said sales of fully electric cars fell 26% to account for 22% of total sales volumes.

Sales of electrified cars as a whole, also including plug-in hybrids, were down 19% to account for 44% of total sales volumes.

Volvo Cars said in May it would cut 3,000 mostly white-collar jobs as it struggles with cost increases, a slowdown in electric vehicle demand and global trade uncertainty.

Its sales volumes in Europe were down 14% while in the U.S. and China they were down 7% and 3%, respectively.

Shares in the company were up 1% in early trade, taking a year-to-date fall to 27%.

Volvo Cars did not comment on the sales figures in the statement.

(Reporting by Jagoda Darlak, editing by Anna Ringstrom and Louise Heavens)