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GM commits to 100% renewable energy by 2050

Green Car Congress

BMW is committed to procuring 100% of electricity from renewable sources for its operations and has an interim target to source more than two thirds of its electricity from renewables by 2020. of GM’s Lordstown assembly plant in Ohio, the home of the Chevrolet Cruze. —GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. Other automakers in RE100.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

Cars That Think

President Biden says his EV policies will result in “one million new jobs in the American automobile industry. BMW, for example, claims it will not cut jobs in the transition to EVs, but it is likely that it will still reduce its workforce by both reskilling and attrition like other German automakers are contemplating. One million.”.

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Trump promises 100% tariff on Mexico-built Chinese cars—EV or not

Baua Electric

In a Saturday campaign speech in Dayton, Ohio, Trump said that over a period of 30 years Mexico has taken away 34% of the automobile manufacturing business in the U.S. automobile industry as a whole.” BMW Group Plant San Luis Potosí in Mexico Mexico already builds many U.S. bound EVs but buys few of them.

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