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Auto Industry : The American Automotive Industry

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There are many issues that are currently facing the American Automotive industry, especially in terms of environmental factors. The automotive industry has been around for a very long time, and is a relatively stable industry, but there are still areas where automotive companies need to adapt and if they fail to do so, they will be at a disadvantage against their peers, both here in America and also globally. In this essay I will break down a few of the issues that I believe are plaguing the American Automotive Industry.
Since the 1960’s there have been many government acts passed that aim to increase the safety of vehicles, and decrease the environmental effect that they have on the world (Automotive Industry Analysis, pg 1). It is no secret that car’s emissions cause serious environmental issues with their pollution, and as this information has come out, there have been more and more Acts that place limits on automobile companies or force them to research ways to create more environmentally green cars.
This need to create ecofriendly cars has meant that many American automobile companies have had to overhaul their processes; not only in investing money to find cleaner sources of energy and ways to fuel cars, but also because they have established protocol and procedures already that will also need to be overhauled. This is clearly a difficult demand for long established companies, many of which are American, because in order to keep up not only with the law but also with

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