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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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How President Obama Can Announce Drive Star to Cut Oil Use in Half by 2020. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles. Today we are under attack.

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Rivian IPO: What you need to know

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Rivian currently employs over 8,000 people across multiple facilities in Arizona, California, Michigan, Illinois, Vancouver, Canada, and the UK. Rivian posted a net loss of $994 million from January to June 2021, more than double the $377 million net loss it posted for the first half of 2020. Despite this, Rivian still has about $3.6

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Study Finds That Clean Cars and Climate Policy Can Create Jobs

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By 2020, the US job gain relative to 2008 could be as little as 49,000 or more than 150,000. Of the more than 190,000 jobs anticipated by 2020, the number of domestic jobs created could vary greatly.

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Report: U.S. Prepping $540 Million for SK Group Semiconductor Factory in Michigan

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Finances have been earmarked for a facility operated by subsidiary SK Siltron CSS to expand a plant located in Bay City, Michigan, which had previously expressed plans to build more chips. Meanwhile, Michigan is desperate to secure tech and manufacturing jobs. investments and assets to more than $50 billion by the end of 2025.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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For example, Daimler AG and Audi reportedly have eliminated 20,000 jobs, while auto supplier Bosch will be laying off 1,000 workers in a move to support vehicle electrification. auto industry jobs could rise by 150,000 by 2030 if battery electric vehicles sales reach 50 percent by 2030 and the vehicle market share of U.S.-assembled

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SAE New Energy Vehicle Forum: China’s focus on NEVs may have profound impact on future of transportation

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The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. Watt) by 2020. Watt) by 2020. l/100 km in 2020. Earlier post.).

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The EV Transition Explained

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University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has long studied the auto industry. Ford and other automakers will need to convince tens of millions of customers to switch to EVs to meet the Biden Administration’s decarbonization goals of 50 percent new auto sales being non-ICE vehicles by 2030.

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