Volvo Car Corp.’s China deliveries surged 31 percent year on year to 17,179 vehicles in August. 

It was the third straight month the Swedish carmaker recorded sales growth in the market after Shanghai, China’s largest city and auto production hub, came out of a two-month lockdown in June.

Last month, Volvo delivered 1,337 electrified vehicles in China, a 22 percent jump from a year earlier. The volume includes 845 plug-in hybrids and 492 full electric vehicles, according to Volvo’s tally.

For the first eight months, Volvo sold 102,899 vehicles in China, its largest single market worldwide, slumping 16 percent from the same period last year.

During the period, its electrified-vehicle sales rose 13 percent to 7,194. The tally is composed of 5,474 plug-in hybrids and 1,720 EVs. 

While registering robust sales recovery in China, Volvo said its local production was contained by power crunch and stringent anti-pandemic measures in the country.

“The positive trend in production continued into August, however the pace of normalization was affected by power cuts and Covid-19 outbreaks in China,” the Swedish carmaker noted. 

Volvo operates a plant in the southwest China city of Chengdu where it assembles the elongated S60 sedan and the XC60 crossover. 

Chengdu, which relies on hydropower generation for power supply, experienced a power shortage in August as a result of a severe heat wave and persistent draught. 

On September 1, the city entered a citywide lockdown to contain a resurging coronavirus outbreak.