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Biden Flanked by Detroit Automakers Signs Clean Car Targets

  • President calls for 50% of cars sold be emission-free by 2030
  • Only union carmakers invited to event, a snub of Telsa
Biden Wants to Put Charge in Electric Car Industry
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President Joe Biden, flanked outside the White House by executives from Detroit’s major automakers, announced a national goal of having half of all vehicles sold in the U.S. to be emissions-free by the end of the decade.

“The future of the American auto industry is electric,” Biden said Thursday. “It is electric; there’s no turning back.”