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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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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 Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images. million jobs” in the Japanese auto industry. Little Japan cast doubts on that number.

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President Obama Announces 48 Projects to Receive $2.4B in Grants for Next-Generation of Batteries and Electric Vehicles; To be Combined with $2.4B in Industry Cost-Share

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Industry officials expect that this $2.4 billion in cost-share from the award winners, will result directly in the creation tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the US battery and auto industries. Manufacturing: Elkhart County, IN; Deployment: Portland, Chicago, and Sacramento. Navistar, Inc. million.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

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Ill never purchase one again, no matter what the mpgs. guess who GM sold the NIHM auto-battery patents too. should be illegal for companies to purchase patents for the purpose of blocking technology. JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible. thats right. the oil companies.

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