For a decade, Volvo's Berkeley County, South Carolina assembly plant has been producing vehicles that were created in Sweden for a global market. In the next half-decade, the company will begin producing a vehicle specifically designed for the U.S. market there.

Stopping himself before he divulged too much, Volvo Car CEO Håkan Samuelsson told Newsweek , "It will be a car, a bigger-size car for primarily for America. It's a more family type of car... It should have room for big families and luggage and everything they bring along."

He said that the model will be a hybrid. "Many places in America are still not ready for full electric cars. This would be a very good solution," Samuelsson continued.

Other parts of the world will want the model, and Volvo will sell it to them, he said. The

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