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Nov 2023
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The Company That Made Your Phone Wants T...

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The Taiwan-based company Foxconn builds roughly two out of every three iPhones, along with the Google Pixel, Amazon Kindle, Nintendo Switch and a slew of other popular products. Bloomberg’s Reed Stevenson joins this episode to talk about Foxconn’s ambitious new goal: to become a major manufacturer of electric vehicles. 

Read more: Foxconn Makes Your iPhone. Now It Wants to Make Your Electric Car

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