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What Carmakers Need to Tell You About Their Electric Plans
It’s time for investors to ask the hard questions and shake old-school car companies out of their complacency.
A General Motors Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave vehicles go through the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan.
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How is it that auto companies spend so much money and there is such vague disclosure on where it’s going? Or how their ambitious projects are progressing? Investors should be pushing accounting standards boards and companies to give them more.
With the onset of electric cars and autonomous vehicles, companies are increasing their focus on technology and technical know-how over the traditional nuts and bolts of putting vehicles together. But it’s hard to see this in their financial statements.