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“I’ll Be There. I’m A Car Guy” : U.S President Joe Biden To Attend 2022 Detroit Auto Show
“I’ll Be There. I’m A Car Guy” : U.S President Joe Biden plans to attend this year’s 2022 Detroit Auto Show.
This month’s Detroit auto show will be the first time the annual event has been held since 2019.
2022 Detroit auto show, open to the public from Sept. 17 to Sept. 25, to focus on the shift to EVs.
Joe Biden wants at least 50% of new vehicles sold by 2030 to be electric or plug-in electric hybrids.
U.S President Joe Biden on Friday said he plan to attend the 2022 Detroit auto show later this month, which opens to the public from Saturday, Sept. 17 to Sunday Sept. 25.
“I’ll be there. I’m a car guy – as you kind of noticed,” Biden said at an event.
This month’s Detroit auto show will be the first time the annual event has been held since 2019. The show is expected to focus on the shift to EVs, as Biden wants at least 50% of new vehicles sold by 2030 in the United States to be electric or plug-in electric hybrids.
Biden attended the Detroit auto show when he served as vice president in the Barack Obama administration. He was a strong advocate of the 2008-09 bailouts of GM and Chrysler, which is now part of Stellantis NV.
The Commerce Department on Friday awarded $52.2 million to a Detroit regional program called the “Global Epicenter of Mobility” to help Michigan’s automotive sector transition to EVs and autonomous vehicles.
The Commerce Department said despite more than $5 billion in private investment the Detroit region’s “prospects are threatened by rising global competition in the electric and autonomous vehicle market, by the rapid pace of innovation in new mobility solutions and by an aging workforce that needs continuous reskilling to keep up with new products and technologies.”
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