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Re:Gas Engines, and the People Behind Them, Are Cast Aside f... by frosted-flakes on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:58PM (#27946015)
From the article:

> Engine and transmission plants accounted for about 44% of all automotive factories globally in 2018, according to data from research firm IHS Markit. A Morgan Stanley report in 2019 estimated that a full transition to electric vehicles could lead to three million lost automotive jobs and cost auto makers tens of billions of dollars in restructuring costs.

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Re:Gas Engines, and the People Behind Them, Are Cast Aside f... by mjevans on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:03PM (#27946030)
Those numbers are only extremely weakly correlated to specific jobs and specializations for those jobs. As a non-expert in this field it also does nothing to inform me of how readily those workers might transition to roughly equivalent jobs and how many are in need of a greater skills assessment and adaption of experiential knowledge to a proper field.
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