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Ford Pleads for Government Aid to Sell EVs Nobody Wants

The UK government is being pushed by the Ford Motor Co. to mandate consumer incentives to push drivers into electric vehicles (EVs) as an industry backlash grows over imposed sales targets and the marketplace flatly rejecting the product.

CORTE MADERA, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 27: An electric car charges at a mall parking lot on June

Auto Industry Icon Lee Iacocca Dead at 94

Lee Iacocca, the auto industry executive and master pitchman who put the Mustang in Ford’s lineup in the 1960s and became a corporate folk hero when he resurrected Chrysler 20 years later, has died in Bel Air, California. He was 94.

FILE - In this Feb. 2, 1989, file photo, Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca gestures whil