RIDGEVILLE – A decade after Volvo Cars began manufacturing in South Carolina, the automotive manufacturer is on an aggressive timeline to add a fourth car to production and double its workforce.

The Sweden-based company, which rolled its first car off the Lowcountry assembly line in September 2018, aims at adding a new hybrid vehicle, which has yet to be publicly named, to its lineup by 2030.

It will be the fourth product manufactured in South Carolina, which includes the fully electric EX90, the Polestar 3 and the midsize hybrid XC60 , which was announced in July. Production of the S60, the first car assembled in Ridgeville, ended last summer.

With the hybrid's addition, the manufacturer aims to supply 50 percent of the U.S. volume of Volvo sales, said Francesca Gamboni, chief indust

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