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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Why dealers say EV sales have slowed - CNBC    Consumers spent nearly $400 billion on electric cars worldwide in 2022, and the U.S. is expected to add 1 million new EVs to its roads this year. From 2023 to 2027, automotive companies have committed $616 billion in total investments in EVs, according to consulting firm AlixPartners. And yet, electric vehicles are piling up at dealership lots. EV and internal combustion engine (ICE) inventory started the year off at about 52 days' supply, according to Cox Automotive. Days' supply is a way of measuring how many vehicles a dealer has on the lot. In the case of a 52 days' supply, if automakers were to stop producing cars today, dealers would be able to keep selling cars for about that number of days before running out. Since January, EV days' supply has skyrocketed while ICE supplies have hovered between 52 and 58 days.EV supply at the start of October was 97 days, down from the peak inventory of around 111 days during early July. Continued here Can Taiwan Continue to Fight Off Chinese Disinformation? - The New York Times -     Ahead of a presidential election in January, Taiwanese fact checkers and watchdogs say they are ready for Beijing. But they are still worried. Suspicious videos that began circulating in Taiwan this month seemed to show the country’s leader advertising cryptocurrency investments. President Tsai Ing-wen, who has repeatedly risked Beijing’s ire by asserting her island’s autonomy, appeared to claim in the clips that the government helped develop investment software for digital currencies, using a term that is common in China but rarely used in Taiwan. Her mouth appeared blurry and her voice unfamiliar, leading Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau to deem the video to be almost certainly a deepfake — an artificially generated spoof — and potentially one created by Chinese agents. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium How Private Equity Helped a Supplement Brand Grow Revenue by 20x - Inc.com    Exclusive: The Ample Hills Co-Founders Have Been Let Go--Less Than 6 Months After They Returned to the Company When Courtney Nichols Gould and Gordon Gould founded the children's gummy vitamins company SmartyPants Vitamins in 2011, they had no idea their product would soon be wildly popular among adults too. After Smarty­Pants rolled out adult gummy vitamins, the Goulds realized that generating meaningful growth would require raising capital. Getting investors excited about their Los Angeles-based company, however, wouldn't be an easy sell. At a trade show, the couple met Alison Minter, a managing partner at North Castle Partners, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based private equity firm. Minter was impressed with the number of SmartyPants customers who subscribed to monthly shipments through Amazon. Continued here How Entrepreneurs Are Drawing Holiday Crowds - Inc.com    Exclusive: The Ample Hills Co-Founders Have Been Let Go--Less Than 6 Months After They Returned to the Company How far can your passport get you? In one city in Massachusetts, a shopping passport works just downtown. But it will go a long way for small businesses there.  This is how the Downtown Pittsfield Passport works: buy from a local shop or attend an event, and you get a sticker. The more stickers you get, the more chances you have to win a gift valued over $500 donated from a local business.  Continued here

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