Who does Volvo share parts with?
Volvo Cars relies on a network of shared platforms and components mainly within Geely’s corporate family, including Geely Auto, Polestar, Lynk & Co, and Geometry. The company also works with a broad set of global suppliers for engines, electronics, and batteries. Volvo Group, the truck and bus arm that shares the Volvo name, operates as a separate business with its own sourcing.
Platform sharing within the Geely ecosystem
This section explains how Volvo Cars leverages modular architectures and engineering commonality across Geely’s brands to reduce costs and accelerate development.
CMA platform — The Compact Modular Architecture is a joint platform developed for Volvo Cars and Geely’s brands, notably used by Volvo’s compact SUVs and cross-brand models such as Polestar and Lynk & Co variants. This shared base enables cross-brand parts and engineering efficiencies.
SPA platform — The Scalable Platform Architecture underpins Volvo’s larger models, including flagship saloons and SUVs. It provides a common engineering backbone for Volvo’s big-car lineup and, within the Geely group, supports related large-vehicle programs.
Shared powertrain and engineering work — Engine families, electrified powertrains, and certain drivetrain components are developed within the Geely network, allowing Volvo Cars to access a broader pool of suppliers and technologies while maintaining separate brand tuning and product plans.
Together, CMA and SPA platform sharing ties Volvo Cars to Geely’s broader engineering ecosystem, enabling cost efficiencies and faster introductions of electrified technologies across multiple brands.
External partnerships and supplier networks
Beyond its internal Geely ties, Volvo Cars participates in a global supplier network that covers software, safety systems, electronics, and battery technology. The company relies on collaboration with major technology and automotive suppliers as part of its electrification strategy.
Volvo Cars has integrated advanced software platforms and, in many markets, Android Automotive OS in collaboration with Google, providing a scalable and updatable in-car experience.
Safety, sensors, and chassis components: The company sources key components from established suppliers in Europe and beyond (including names commonly seen in the industry for brakes, steering, and occupant protection).
Battery and electrification partners: For its electrified models, Volvo works with major battery-cell suppliers to secure scale and capability for its expanding EV lineup.
These collaborations illustrate how Volvo Cars blends internal platform sharing with an external supplier network to deliver its electrified and conventional models while maintaining brand identity and safety standards.
Volvo Cars vs Volvo Group: two distinct companies
There is an important distinction to make: Volvo Cars—the carmaker owned by Geely—operates independently from Volvo Group, the separate manufacturer of trucks, buses, and construction equipment. Parts sharing described above focuses on Volvo Cars and its Geely-driven ecosystem. Volvo Group, while sharing some global suppliers with the wider automotive industry, does not regularly share components with Volvo Cars and follows its own product development and sourcing strategies.
Key takeaway: the sharing happens within one corporate family
The practical effect for consumers is that Volvo Cars benefits from scale and shared engineering with Geely’s brands, while maintaining its own design language, safety standards, and electrification roadmap. The separation from the Volvo Group helps avoid conflating car and commercial-vehicle supply chains, even as both entities leverage broad automotive supplier networks.
Summary
Volvo Cars primarily shares parts and platforms with Geely’s brands through CMA and SPA architectures and related engineering efforts, while also engaging a global supplier network for software, safety systems, and batteries. Volvo Group remains a separate company focused on trucks and buses, with its own sourcing and development priorities. In practical terms, Volvo Cars’ parts-sharing strategy centers on cross-brand platform commonality within the Geely family and a broad array of external suppliers to support electrification and safety technologies.
