Friday, March 27, 2020

WHEN AUTOMAKERS RETOOL

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re going to need a lot of medical supplies. Having temporarily shuttered their factories, some automakers might just start making those instead.

It’ll be quite a leap from making cars, but for most, it isn’t the first time items other than vehicles have gone down the assembly line.

In the past, the non-automobiles they built were primarily military supplies, and during the Second World War, automakers in Canada and the U.S. were ordered to stop making cars and switch over.

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