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Volvo Cars is tripling electriccar manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The plant already builds the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electriccar, as well as a plug-in hybrid version of the XC40.
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