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University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has long studied the autoindustry. Ford and other automakers will need to convince tens of millions of customers to switch to EVs to meet the Biden Administration’s decarbonization goals of 50 percent new auto sales being non-ICE vehicles by 2030. Chris Paredis.
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