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“Electric cars are disasters. They are evil." Not something you'd hear every day, certainly not from a powerful executive in the auto industry. Yet those are the words of Ha Bu-young, head of the Hyundai motor union, both the largest and the most powerful union in South Korea. DON'T MISS: UAW wakes up to job threat posed by electric cars, as German unions have already (Oct 2017) Ha made the comment in an interview with the Reuters news service last week, published on Monday. His concern is jobs, specifically the well-paid auto industry jobs that have lifted auto workers in the country...
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Green Car Reports is looking for one or two experienced news writers
Are you a published writer with a strong and abiding interest in green cars, especially those that plug in? Do you have experience writing assigned news stories on deadline? Are you looking for a new challenge? If so, Green Car Reports would like to talk to you. The site is now seeking one or two...
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Solar jobs have grown 20 percent a year since 2012; coal, not so much
Here's a little quiz on a topic much discussed over the past couple of years: jobs. How many people work in the U.S. coal industry? Not just miners, but office staff, too. And, how many people work for solar-energy companies in the U.S.? DON'T MISS: Clean energy provides far more U.S. jobs than...
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Coal-country voters laugh at politicians who deny climate change
The "war on coal" has long been a talking point of politicians running for elected office in the state of Kentucky. The state was once home to a booming coal industry that has floundered over the years as cheaper fracked natural gas has supplanted coal for electricity generation. The state's coal...
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From coal miner to wind-farm worker: Wyoming retraining program
President Donald Trump has announced his intention to pull the United States from the Paris Climate Pact, but private companies and other entities are taking on the challenge of clean energy themselves. Goldwind Americas, a subsidiary of a leading Chinese wind-turbine manufacturer, continues to...
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Fuel-efficiency rules create jobs too, contrary to industry plaints
Fuel economy and emission standards have been a contentious issue in recent months as the auto industry and government officials clash over regulations and their potential benefits. Earlier this year, one of the largest pieces of evidence against more stringent fuel economy regulations came from...
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Yesterday, U.S. president Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of rolling back pretty much every vestige of U.S. efforts to address climate change. In both his campaigning and since his inauguration, Trump has claimed that his government and its actions focus on creating or bringing back jobs for working-class Americans. What the president has apparently overlooked in his latest actions is that the clean-energy industry already accounts for far more U.S. jobs than does the fossil-fuel sector. DON'T MISS: Trump Administration goal: undo every climate-change effort...
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Ignore politicians: lower fuel-economy rules don't create jobs, analyst says
A common refrain among critics of current and future fuel-economy standards is that the need to comply with them produces job cuts in the auto industry. It's a theme picked up by President Donald Trump during a much-publicized visit to Detroit last week. In the hometown of the Big Three U.S...
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Bipartisan governors' group urges Trump to back solar, wind power
The new presidential administration seems poised to take a radically different approach to energy policy than its predecessor. That approach is founded on denial of accepted climate science, and an expressed desire to promote the fossil-fuel industry, including the so-called revival of coal. But...
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Nevada treasurer, Faraday's nemesis, turns eye toward Tesla tax-credit transfer
The state of Nevada has been fairly generous to startup electric-car makers that pledge to establish manufacturing operations within its borders. After offering a generous incentive package several years ago, the Silver State landed Tesla's lithium-ion battery "Gigafactory," which is now up and...
Stephen Edelstein -
Carmakers ask Trump to review EPA rules, use discredited job projection
Just days after the presidential election, an automaker lobbying group wrote Donald Trump asking him to change or delay an EPA decision that kept planned exhaust-emission standards through 2025. Now executives of 18 automakers have sent a second letter, asking the same thing—and echoing a...
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Electric cars lead to carmaker job cuts: new flashpoint?
It takes people to make cars: to lift and install parts, check quality, test-drive them after assembly, and so forth. Automation has eliminated many of the jobs performed by humans a century ago on the Ford Model T line, and made the rest much less physically punishing for line workers. But...
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The Fremont City Council recently approved an expansion of Tesla's factory.
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Electric cars will require 10,000-plus job cuts at VW, says HR chief
Volkswagen's HR boss predicts significant job cuts related to electric cars.
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EPA could hurt U.S. jobs with diesel scandal fines, VW labor chief warns
The ongoing Volkswagen diesel cheating scandal was newly roiled by this week's news that the company's U.S. CEO Michael Horn was leaving the company, effective immediately. But owners and regulators can't move forward until the other shoe drops: the EPA and California's regulators must approve a...
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Tesla Gigafactory Jobs, Investments Fell Short Of Projections Last Year
Job growth and capital investments in the Tesla "Gigafactory" project aren't meeting projections, Nevada officials say.
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Tesla Motors Has More Than 1,600 Jobs Open, Many For Engineers
Tesla reportedly has 1,656 jobs open.
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Tesla Recruits U.S. Military Veterans To Build Electric Cars In California
Tesla Motors is making a concerted effort to hire veterans.
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The main benefits of Ford's Ecoboost line of engines may be fuel efficiency and performance, but their popularity is resulting in another positive outcome. Ford has sold more than 530,000 Ecoboost vehicles since the line's introduction three and a half years ago, and the automaker is ready to invest in hundreds of extra jobs to keep up with demand. According to The Detroit News, Ford will invest hundreds of millions of dollars in two Ohio plant to hire more workers. While Ecoboost vehicles typically command a $1,000 premium over their more conventional counterparts, they've proven...
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Electric Cars Represent U.S. Jobs, Says Michigan Governor Granholm
Want to support American jobs? Then support electric cars. That's the message from former Michigan governor, Jennifer M. Granholm. Granholm was governor of the state when $1.35 billion in grants were offered, in order to develop and build electric vehicles and their batteries. Writing in the...
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House Bill Demands Safety, Jobs Analysis Of Gas-Mileage Rules
Politics is at best a messy and adversarial process. Add in a presidential election and the currently polarized political mood, and anything at all done by government is usually exploited for political gain--by one side or another, often by both from different stances. Which seems a good lens to...
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Job Training For Returning Vets: Installing Electric-Car Chargers
Industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation, whose automotive business makes superchargers and many other parts, also supplies electric-car charging stations. Under a recent Federal contract, Eaton will provide those charging stations to various Federal locations--and the company is also working to...
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BMW Hiring 2,600 Workers By 2012 For Hybrid And Electric Cars
First General Motors said it would add 1,000 workers purely to work on electric cars. Now it's BMW's turn. In a strong indicator of its commitment to developing hybrid and pure electric vehicles, BMW says it will hire an additional 2,600 employees over the next two years to work in these particular...
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GM Doubles Down on Electric Cars, Will Hire 1,000 Engineers For Them
It doesn't really matter whether GM sells the first Chevrolet Volt electric cars at a loss or not. The company announced yesterday that it plans to hire 1,000 new engineers over the next two years to focus exclusively on developing and expanding its work in electric-drive vehicles, everything from...
John Voelcker