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The Game Theory of the Auto Strikes
Everyone involved in the strike should be calculating what’s at stake to figure out what sort of offers they’d be…
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Workers Demand Job Security in the Autonomous, Electrified Future of Transport
Trucking and delivery driving jobs come in many different forms. Steve Viscelli, an economic sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania…
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How Elon Musk and Tesla Helped Spark the UAW Auto Strikes
Elon Musk hasn’t been sighted at the picket lines in Missouri, Ohio, or Michigan, where autoworkers are striking against the…
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The Auto Strike Threatens a Supply Chain Already Weakened by Covid
In addition to making everyone an epidemiologist, the Covid-19 pandemic schooled the public on the world-spanning network of manufacturers, assemblers,…
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The Collapse of the UK’s Electric Vehicle Champion
Britishvolt was meant to be the UK’s answer to Tesla. By 2024, it was supposed to be producing hundreds of…
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The Collapse of the UK’s Electric Vehicle Champion
Britishvolt was meant to be the UK’s answer to Tesla. By 2024, it was supposed to be producing hundreds of…
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Cars
Will the U.K. Auto Industry Ever Recapture Past Glory? Maybe
It’s hard to believe that once not so long ago—at least, within the span of my own decrepit memory—Britain was…
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Cars
Photo Gallery – U.K. Auto Industry Is Down but Not Out
See photos that show how U.K. automakers Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce, Mini, Lotus, and even Morgan and Morris are hopeful…
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The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium
Lithium projects outside China have been at the mercy of the markets, slowing and expanding as the price of lithium…
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The Rise and Precarious Reign of China’s Battery King
The headquarters of battery giant CATL tower over the coastal Chinese city of Ningde. To the untrained eye, the building…
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