Auto workers fear EVs will be job killers

UAW workers picket outside of GM's Bowling Green, Ky., plant — A recent study of electric-vehicle production in Europe by consultant AlixPartners found that it took 40 percent fewer hours to assemble an electric motor and battery than a traditional internal-combustion engine and transmission. (REUTERS/REUTERS)

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CHESTER DAWSON, KEITH NAUGHTON and GABRIELLE COPPOLA

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Bloomberg

September 27, 2019 11:45 AM

The milkman went missing thanks to the rise of refrigerators. Switchboard operators were done in by the dawn of direct dialing. And in the car industry, auto workers are deathly afraid the engine assembler will give way to battery builders.

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