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“Everything you are looking at is essentially fake, but it is absolutely product-correct,” eVN founder Peter Stevenson says of his company’s vehicle imagery provided to car dealers.
The U.S. light-vehicle forecast for 2021 is now about 16.5 million units – down from 17 million – says LMC Automotive’s Jeff Schuster at this week’s CAR Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, MI.
Manufacturing vehicles is a tough business, leaving financial-sector experts debating who is best situated to win in the battery-electric-vehicle market. But all agree a lot of money will be required if the industry is to hit aggressive long-term sales targets.
The U.S. market for EVs is one-third the size of that in China and Europe, says Sue Helper, a senior economist with the White House Council of Economic Advisers. “The President believes that must change,” she says.
The Detroit Smart Parking Lab's open innovation platform will offer multiple ways for mobility organizations to use the facility independently, work together with founding members on a specific project or apply for grant projects.