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CAR report quantifies automotive’s position as a leading high-tech industry

Green Car Congress

Percentage of Global R&D Spending by Industry, 2013. Source: Booz & Company “Global Innovation”; Battelle R&D Magazine; Center for Automotive Research 2012. Additionally, the auto industry provides 16% of total worldwide R&D funding for all industries. Click to enlarge. Source: IRI 2013, CAR. Click to enlarge.

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How to Electrify Your EV Fleet the Smart Way

EV Connect

Moreover, the private sector is betting big on the future of EVs, rewarding innovative EV startups with investments and spurring the old guard of the auto industry to invest tens of billions of dollars in new electric vehicle models that will put millions of new drivers into EVs each year.

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

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Posted by: Dale Kaup | Apr 13, 2009 10:34:27 PM I am sorry to hear that, and I wish my auto tools business( [link] will not be hurt, Posted by: David | Apr 13, 2009 11:11:37 PM I cant help but feel sorry for all of us when people start proposing what the gov *should* have been doing with our money. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0

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