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Largest Auto-Industry Employer In California: Electric-Car Maker Tesla Motors

Green Car Reports

It''s also, amazingly, become California''s biggest auto-industry employer--edging out even Toyota. Tesla Motors is one of the youngest U.S. automakers, but has made a disproportionately large impact in the automotive media''s headlines over the last few years.

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More auto plant shutdowns for COVID-19

Green Car Congress

Honda transmission and engine plants in North America that serve Honda auto plants also will suspend production for the same time period. On a smaller scale, in California, Tesla stimulated $5.5 Honda will suspend production for six days beginning 23 March, with current plans to return to production on 31 March.

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Tesla sold one out of every 8 cars in California in 2023, 21.4% EV share

Baua Electric

California hit a new record last year with 21.4% The data was released yesterday by the California New Car Dealer’s Association (CNCDA) in their quarterly Auto Outlook. The data was released yesterday by the California New Car Dealer’s Association (CNCDA) in their quarterly Auto Outlook. of sales in California.

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Big Auto is begging governments to let them go bankrupt as Chinese EVs loom

Baua Electric

The auto industry is electrifying, and all new cars will be electric in the relatively near future. And yet, the auto industry – which is responsible for more pollution than any other sector, at least in rich countries – still lobbies to worsen emissions reduction targets, even when those targets were already pushed back to begin with.

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Electric truck hopeful Rivian moving more of its workforce to California

Green Car Reports

Rivian is the only one of a group of well-funded upstart EV makers to have a strong presence in the traditional heart of the American auto industry—the Detroit area.

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Automakers try to wave Colorado off a California-style EV mandate

Green Car Reports

After Colorado jumped on board California's Zero Emissions ship in January, automakers apparently weren't happy. According to a Reuters report, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a lobbying group for the auto industry, met with Colorado Governor Jared Polis last month to lobby him to adopt a voluntary EV program instead.

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New interactive map tracks plug-in vehicle adoption in California

Green Car Congress

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE), administrator of the state’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP), has introduced an online interactive map with information on the distribution of more than 20,000 rebated plug-in cars. California is the nation’s largest PEV market with roughly 35% of the US total. Click to enlarge.