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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

Cars That Think

Electric vehicles require new or re-tooled factories , each requiring thousands of employees. The EV battery start-up company SPARKZ is going to fill its worker needs in its planned West Virginia plant by recruiting and retraining laid off coal miners. Each mine and factory will need hundreds of workers to operate them.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

He envisioned “hundreds of thousands” of charging spots, as well as a number of stations where drained batteries could be exchanged for fresh ones. The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. — DonO 5.

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Trump plans to gut EV policy: What it might mean for jobs, auto industry, made in America

Baua Electric

Today’s diversified multinational energy companies have invested deeply in solar panels, energy storage, and charging networks, with wells and refineries and combustion only part of the business. He made a pledge to “bring back coal,” and he has suggested that climate change itself is a hoax created by China to hurt U.S. businesses.