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Sep 13, 2019, 11:47 pm861 ptsInteresting
CleanTechnica
After growing fat on expanding sales and record profits, the world’s automakers are now facing lean times. The decade-long global economic expansion is running out of gas, and the industry-changing trend of electrification, which automakers happily ignored when the profits were rolling in, now looms as an…
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