The Volvo EX60 is the Swedish automaker’s most important car. It’s fast, it’s comfortable, it has plenty of range, and it can charge really quickly, holding its own against rivals like the BMW iX3 and Mercedes-Benz GLC Electric. It’s the car that can turn Volvo’s fortunes around at a time when the Geely-owned company isn’t doing particularly well.

But that won’t happen anytime soon, and American customers will need to wait the longest to get their hands on the EX60. That’s because manufacturing the electric SUV is proving harder than originally thought, with an Automotive News report claiming that two assembly issues are keeping the EX60 from rolling down the line as it’s supposed to.

The report claims Volvo is having trouble fitting the high-voltage battery pack to the EX60's body on the assembly line.

The company is having difficulties integrating the high-voltage battery pack into the body. Making the electric motors that power the crossover is also proving a bit of a hassle, according to an unnamed source with knowledge of the problems, quoted by Automotive News.

The results speak for themselves. Volvo had planned to assemble roughly 2,000 EX60s per week at its Torslanda plant in Sweden, but so far, the output has been about one-tenth of the target. Production began in late April, and the company sold approximately 500 EX60 EVs worldwide in July, followed by roughly 250 in August, according to GlobalData estimates.

Over in the United States, the company had expected to sell around 7,000 EX60s this year alone, but so far, just a handful of units have made their way across the ocean.

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