What’s up in the auto industry? Plenty and here’s some of it.
As you might expect, there’s been a tectonic shift away from internal combustion engines ... except in the U.S. Most of us seem to live in a bubble, happy to burn gas and rely on fossil fuels while most of the world explores other, mostly electric, means of propulsion.
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