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Aug 2021
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An Ambitious Goal: Will Half of All Cars...

WHARTON BUSINESS DAILY
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Wharton Management Professor John Paul MacDuffie talks about President Biden's new executive order on electric vehicles and what needs to happen from an infrastructure standpoint for those goals to become reality.




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