when the reality is general motors hasn't stopped for one inch that's number one. number two is there's a significant economic fall out from all of this they want to get -- they being the administration they want to get people back to work in certain parts of the country soon they can. you heard the pleas from governor cuomo here in new york and new york's not going to be one of first places that gets back to work st impossible. the situation is horrible here it's likely to get even worse. you can't have people go back to work, phil, if you don't have enough ventilators ready to help those who are in need now and those who may be become sick after the fact >> which is why governor cuomo almost every day said in some fashion, we need the federal government toen voek the defense production act so we know these are being made that's what he's been calling for but him and other elected leaders around the country he can say i got on them and now we got a deal done this afternoon. i've seen this play out since he became president with the automakers with production wheth

we will get to all of the traders in just a moment, but we have breaking news on general motors really the second day in a row, but this is different. phil lebeau, what is trump ordering gm to do? >> it's the defense production act that he has signed and it's not one across the board for all industry and it is specific to general motors and the manufacturing of ventilators and after signing this or announcing this or basically putting it into effect, the white house then issued a statement from the president and he took full aim at general motors. he tweeted at barra. our negotiations with gm regarding its ability to supply sent virts have been productive and our fight against the virus is too urgent to the give and take to continue to run its normal course. we talked about how this whole process shook out and we'll talk about that in a bit, brian here is what general motors and ventech have signed up to do they have not signed up with fema or the federal government, but they have reached an agreement to essentially set up a new manufacturing facility at gm's engine plant in coke mocom

producing ventilators, general motors largely in your beautiful state. will those ventilators get to hospitals in michigan and elsewhere soon enough to save lives? >> well, we certainly hope so. general motors is a quintessential american company that has contributed to building the middle class in our country, helped make michigan and the united states the arsenal of democracy to win world war ii. the leadership at general motors is top notch, and i think that they are going to rise to this challenge. it won't happen overnight, though. switching over from building cars to building something as complicated as a ventilator is going to take a while, and we don't have a lot of time to waste. that's why i'm glad to see this action. i would love to see more of this, more of the strategic powers of the president to be used nationally. we need a national strategy. this patchwork of laws based on who the governors are really isn't the best strategy going forward. and i think we all need to lock arms and not fight one another but fight covid-19. >> that's an impo

you said this this is the part where the electric motors built in. let's see what you just produced on the computer ok ok. sound that up a little more. effort the next one is coming in. just to get this right this is the exact something just produced with the equalizer with a guitar and to electric through it's the one and i made 3 of them and that she listened to all the 3 so gather. the. oh wow i feel like you often say it's just looks like it's not an ordinary op and. next we check out how the sound of the future is installed in the car. so you're actually creating like an identity with the new sound for the cars yes and that is something that we think is quite important we want to give the vehicle a soul and you can if you look at it it looks quite sporty and when you drive it you feel the power of the of the electrical engines and we want to transport this to the sound as well so we are also trying to transport some already d.n.a. into the sound and yeah we try to have something that you were recognize when you when you don't see the car but you

this will help to replace two motors from the marine three vessel. it ha gone under a refurbishment paid with another grant. with this grant award and replacement of two motors, we will be extending the useful life of the vessel and will be minimizing the future maintenance costs because the two new motors will be under warranty. with this grant we will extend the useful life of the vessel and increasing its operational capacity. if anyone has any questions, i would be more than happy to answer them. >> there is no report on this. colleagues, i think this is replacing the motors in an existing boat, and this unit actually comments what the jurisdiction of the coast guard is. we have our own jurisdiction within the city and county of san francisco. this is why we have this marine unit that actually does that function for us around our coastal waters we have jurisdiction of and that the coast guard did not, that is correct? >> that's correct. >> okay. open up for public comment. any members of the public to comment? seeing none, public comment is . >>

american people sir where we had to do today with president trump's order with respect to general motors i want to give you a little background on that. we need industrial mobilization to make adequate ventilators particularly in the very short run to help the people in new york detroit new orleans chicago denver seattle all around this country as this virus bears down the ventilators really are the most important thing for patients who become most seriously ill they're literally the lifeline for people and i've personally been working with thema and i've been working with h.h.s. and over 10 ventilator companies making sure we can get what we need as quickly as possible and virtually every one of those companies has been cooperative patriotic moving in trump time which is to say as soon as possible sir but we did have a problem with g.m. and then tack on the one hand we had ford and g.m. moving forward on a similar kind of project patriotically moving as fast as possible over the last several days we ran into road blocks with g.m. we cannot afford to lose a single day particularly over t

so general motors, we'll see what happens. but now they're talking. but they weren't talking the right way at the beginning, and that was not right to the country. >> can you follow on that, mr. president? last night you told sean hannity you didn't feel there was a need

the thing about electric motors is you can have 100 small electric motors instead of one big one . have 100 small steam engines instead of a big one is it's very inefficient but you can add 100 smallelectric motors. they get power to the wires . driveshaft, we can get rid of that driveshaft. everyone can have theirown electric motor . ion, that means you could build a factory with skylights or we could have cranes in the 10 roof to help people move stuff around or maybe both. also, we have to organize a factoryaround the proximity to the driveshaft, we can spread out . you have two or three story factories with all the machines charting the future driveshaft and everything is being lubricated by these boilers. after you get to sleep and everything is crammed in around the driveshaft. but with the electric motors you can spread out and you can organize a factory around the low of products. it's the first process, this is the second process, doesn't matter whether it needs a lot ofpower or a little bit of power . just arrange it in a logical way you can start having a production line

automaker general motors looks to save some cash and avoid layoffs amid the coronavirus pandemic warns fix the car coach tells us what we could be there or what could be coming for the auto industry plus amazon workers across the country come forward with stories about working conditions and safety after more positive cases of covert 19 but 1st let's start by talking about. the global death toll still on the rise with more than 25000 people and nearly 555000 back to the united states now leads with the most confirmed cases in the world with more than 86000 infected and nearly 1300 fatalities new hotspots are emerging across the u.s. and chicago detroit and new orleans vice president mike pence downplayed trumps comments over reopening the economy by easter saying the president expressed really an aspirational goal as we continue to follow the data on thursday g. 20 leaders held a virtual meeting where they vowed to work together to combat the virus we talked about the problem. and hopefully won't be a problem for too much longer the united states is working with their friends and partn

the geneva motor show becomes the 1st big business casualty of the coronavirus one of the biggest shows in the world is council. supply chain problems due to the virus making drugs the scats commodity at a time when they need it most. places to business. the corona virus outbreak continues to dominate business headlines around the globe after wall street made gains to correct last week's slump asian markets followed suit continuing their recovery on tuesday all prices also extended their rebound as policymakers and central bankers indicated that willingness to ease the economic fallout australia's reserve bank is the 1st central bank to react slashing interest rates to a record low by $25.00 basis points to 0.5 percent the outbreak is plunging the world economy into its worst downturn since the global financial crisis more than 10 years ago pressure is growing on the governments and central banks to fight back to avoid an even steep a slump investors are now. waiting for a conference call by group of 7 leaders later on tuesday let's go straight to our financial correspondent. who is in

factory shutdown and less money coming in general motors is looking. to save some cash well cording to bloomberg g.m. is stopping work on new vehicles and it's holding off pay for white collar workers will senior management will also take pay cuts of up to 10 per cent and with even more deferred another $6500.00 workers are also expected to go on leave with 75 percent of their pay the cash saving measures are to move or the move is rather to avoid some boss of all layoffs it's still unclear when g.m. or many other american automakers will be able to return to normal production for more on the auto sector in parts of facing due to the coronavirus we're joined by lauren fix the car coach lauren another market that sector that's been hitting hard since the coronavirus started right before it started it was actually doing pretty well but what do you make of the move g.m. is making to cut pay will that be enough to help keep the company afloat. well i think you have to start cutting costs someplace you've got nothing being produced right now and so you have

it started with the president lambasting general motors. as usual, with this general motors, things just never seem to work out. they said they were going to have us 40,000 much needed ventilators very quickly. now they are saying it will only be 6,000 in late april, and they want top dollar. always a mess with mary b. invoke p. p of course meant defense production act, and suddenly that's been done. hans, did he invoke it out of spite, or did he invoke it out of need? >> reporter: i don't have an answer to that, right? i want to be clear on that. all we know is that he finally invoke roed invoked and with specific regards to general motors. he called it general electric at one point but he's talking about general motors. he hinted he came close to do it with three other companies but pulled back. as to the question of ventilators, the only way you can square the president's tweets from last night and what he's talking about today is to say the 30,000 to 40,000 had to be for new york city or a specific hospital. that's the only way because

>> as previously noted, he has a history of general motors. and if you are on the president's list, if he has a grievance against you, he is quick to fire back and re-stoke the fight and come back at you when had he gets the opportunity. another thing that we are seeing here and we have seen it throughout the trump presidency and we are seeing it in the middle of a global pandemic that raises the stakes. the president when he is free-lancing, he acts on instinct and impulse and reflex, which is why he said, the governor is over estimating how many ventilators he needs. let's get back to work by easter sunday. let's go back to churches and mosques and sin ga-- synagoogue and his po-- and his own people said, we need the ventilators, we need to step up. he said it will be early next week to extend the guidelines and he said, health and safety first and saving lives first then the economy. the president on his own acts on impulse and instinct, but one thing we have seen consistently, is because of the vice president and tony fauci and ambassador

and the geneva motor show becomes the 1st big business casualty of the throne of ira's one of the biggest con shows in the world this council. this is the business welcome the coronavirus outbreak continues to dominate business headlines around the globe pressure is growing on governments and central banks to fight back to avoid an even steeper slump g 7 finance ministers are set to hold a conference call today to agree on a plan to combat the damage of coronavirus has done to the world economy is a quick rundown of the latest development on tuesday all straight became the 1st company to cut interest rates to combat the economic effects of the break down from the point 75 percent to the new 0.5 percent and this is a record low after a week of severe losses yesterday the dow jones index made its biggest jump since 2009 surging 5 point one percent germany's dax also recovered. in trading on tuesday and in switzerland one of the biggest cause shows in the world was supposed to open this week but thanks to the coronavirus the geneva international motor show was cancelled as the swiss governme

shooting brake with a plug in hybrid motor the electric engines range is more than 70 kilometers before the gasoline fueled engine takes over. porsche's classic internal combustion engine in contrast drives its new 911 turbo s. model with the maximum output of 650 horsepower the future of presentation may be virtual auto shows have repeatedly been labeled old fashioned in recent years but maybe the odd car maker will feel a hint of nostalgia and hope that the next major motor show will indeed take place in real life. chief executive all of a how worried he is about the outbreak for the premium comic. we are warry about it's a big challenge for the world and talking concrete about porsche we closed our dealerships in february and china and lost the majority of our sales and on the other hand we challenge our supply chain from china to our car production in europe for the world up to now we are stable but is it is a daily monitoring and for the next week i hope they will limit the rows and see what will happen. really balances following all these developments for us from frankfurt all the

automaker general motors to make hospital ventilators. it's unclear if such an order was required. sources tell cnn that general motors was already proceeding with plans to make the ventilators before the act was invoked. >>> mr. trump signed a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill soon after it passed congress on friday. it provides emergency cash payments to americans and increased jobless benefits to people out of work by the pandemic. as coronavirus pandemic cases in the u.s. soar, so do the number of people out of work. cnn's jason carroll has been speaking to several of those directly impacted by the closures and layoffs in one of the worst hit parts of the country new york. >> reporter: millions ordered to stay home. and a growing number of people across the country out of work, now that more and more businesses have been forced to close. >> frustrating is one word. impossible is another. >> reporter: connor zach was laid off his production job last week. his savings will last until next month or so, zapp worries that federal measures to ste

and so i know that the leadership at general motors is tough and ready to take thise o.eed to all be in this and do our part. >> on the ventilators because there's been a loton ofsion on this, how many do you have? tchoum you need? and have you gotten anything from the federal government? >> we've been making sure that we've got that we're bringing ventilators that have been retired. we've been revamping them and bringing them onlin no matter how many we have, we're going to need more. >> do you know whahat need is in michigan? >> we'reg try mitigate from people getting sick. that's why we've been so aggressive in terms of our state home orders and pullingids out of sool. that's part of the challenge here. there's not enough data because thert enough testing. and so modeling shows us that anywhere between, you kno a million or less people will need to be hospitalized at some point in michigan. if we're not aggressive now. and that's what's driven decisions we've made. there are not enough ventilators no matter what the snurm today for the t needt we anticipate tomorrow a

no, this was specific to general motors and the production of ventilators.out to general motors to see if this changes any of its plans, which are currently for manufacturing of ventilators to begin at an engine plant in kokomo, indiana. they're already outfitting that plant, getting it ready for production it's going to be basically a clean facility, so it's not like they're just taking an old auto shop and said yeah, put a couple of machines up and start cranking on ventilators. they have to meet fda requirements so they're in the process of ready diing the plant, making sure the workers are trained to build the parts and ventilators then they expect within the next senne to 14 days to start cranking out ventilators not sure how much that changes given the defense production act >> odd timing as you're implying given what we discussed last hour this they were already starting to make them. >> right >> my one question and i think probably we'll have to read up on exactly what the terms of the act imply, but does it all to what price >> i'm sure there's an e

hopefully general motors will join in the fray. under the normal condition that you would be regular times, 29,000 ventilators are distributed in the united states each year. in the next 100 days, first of all, we already delivered thousands of them. within the next 100 days we will either make or get, in some form, over 100,000 additional units and i guess to put it in other words in the next 100 days we'll receive over three times the number of ventilators made during a regular year in the united states. that doesn't include all of the thousands and thousands that we've given to the various states, a lot of them. we delivered thousands new york and they didn't know they got them. we also had thousands put in a warehouse. that was also for new york. they just found out they were there. we have to make sure when we deliver things they get distributed. earlier today i spoke to the ceo of boeing. boeing will be producing and donating face shields to help our medical professionals on the front line. these are pretty intricate in terms

amid word that the week ahead could turn motor city into a hot spot.the henry ford health sa worst-case scenario was circulated to doctors of relegating the dying to comfort care because keeping them alive would take away resources for patients who might survive. >> if we reach this worst-case scenario, our overall goal is to reduce mortality as much as possible and to provide our limited resources to all of those patients that we think have the best chance of surviving. >> reporter: detroit mayor mike duggan said every major hospital system is having exactly the same conversations internally. today, it was announced the city's chief of police has tested positive. the president has suggested the need for ventilators may be exaggerated, but in illinois, governor j.b. pritzker took strong issue. >> at worst, the comments are deadly. >> reporter: in chicago, another predicted hot spot... ( coughing ) >> sorry. >> reporter: michael bane is hospitalized with the coronavirus and worried. >> i was moved to the i.c.u. last night. >> reporter: when he awoke thi

now, we have the press release from general motors as well.eneral motors is saying they're going to go ahead and start something in kokomo, indiana. not clear if they're talking about the same thing, but there are a few clues in there. he is talking about re-activating the plant in lordstown, ohio. press release talks about a plant in indiana. the president says late april is too late, he is berating them from that. the press release from gm says they hope to have it in position to start shipping at the end of next month. so the president could, and i stress with a could, could be reacting to this press release from general motors. it is unclear whether or not he actually is going to intervene and order them to open up a plant in lordstown, ohio, and produce ventilators. that's not an answer anyone is giving us, and maybe we can clear it up. >> all right. josh, unfortunately for you, that clue still leaves me clueless. if we want the stuff, if we need the stuff, what would be the down side of the president triggering this, what am i missing? >

this will help to replace two motors from the marine three vessel. it ha gone under a refurbishment paid with another grant. with this grant award and replacement of two motors, we will be extending the useful life of the vessel and will be minimizing the future maintenance costs because the two new motors will be under warranty. with this grant we will extend the useful life of the vessel and increasing its operational capacity. if anyone has any questions, i would be more than happy to answer them. >> there is no report on this. colleagues, i think this is replacing the motors in an existing boat, and this unit actually comments what the jurisdiction of the coast guard is. we have our own jurisdiction within the city and county of san francisco. this is why we have this marine unit that actually does that function for us around our coastal waters we have jurisdiction of and that the coast guard did not, that is correct? >> that's correct. >> okay. open up for public comment. any members of the public to comment? seeing none, public comment is . >>

president trump invoked the defense production act today and use it to order general motors to prodehines well for noelle bellow joins us now from our newsroom with more on the deal with general motors noel. pam that deal with gm is essentially a federal order the defense production act is a federal law. >>and acted back in 19 50 in response to the start of the korean war, it can for certain american companies to produce materials that e in short supply in the face of the growing outbreak the president said today invokg the defense production act was necessary to address the shortage of those ventilators. >>this afternoon i invoke the defense production act to compound general motors to accept perform and prioritize federal contracts for ventilators this invocation of the dpa should demonstrate clearly to all that we will not hesitate to use the full authority. of the federal government to combat this crisis. we thought that we had to deal with as an example general motors and i guess they thought of the lies they didn't agree. and now they do they do agree and i think we might be ab

much needed medical equipment this afternoon to invoke the defense production act to compel general motors to accept reform in prioritize federal contracts for ventilators ventilators are a big deal and we've delivered thousands of them and oftentimes you don't need ventilate is very much ospital zone have very many and now we're turning out that we have to produce large numbers but we've been able to do that and we're going to be doing a lot more and here's the global picture with the johns hopkins university track that are nearly 596000 confirmed infections but with a lack of testing the real number is likely to be much higher more than 27000 people have died almost 131000 have recovered al-jazeera israel brunell's begins our coverage from los angeles. the u.s. navy hospital ship mercy sailed into los angeles harbor equipped with 1000 hospital beds and 800 medical staffers they will treat patients who do not have coded 19 freeing up space at l.a. hospitals for an expected surge of coronavirus cases the u.s. now has more than $100000.00 confirmed cases at its capacity today will add a 3rd

crowded hospit meanwhile, on twitter, president trump called for automakers general motors and beginduction of critically-needed ventilators. e president initially suggested he wand to relax health restrictions by easter, but today, vice president pence said that might not be the cas nationwide. >> let me be very clear, there is going to be areas of the country where we n continue to lean into mitigation efforts. >> yang: around the world, communities are finding ways to cope with rising infectionand overtaxed medical systems. hospitals and retirement homes in bergamo, italy, the epicenter of that nation's crisis, opened their doors to russianilitary dics. italy's infection rate has slowed, but the numberf deaths there account for more than a third of the world's total. and today, british prime minister boris johnson revealed he is now infected. >> i've taken a test. that has come out positive. so i am working from home. i'm self-isolating. and that's entirely the right thing to do. >> yang: other parts of the world are still hoping to avoid the worst. in johannesburg, south africa,

this afternoon i invoke the defense production act to compel general motors to accept reform and prioritize federal contracts for ventilators ventilators are a big deal and we've delivered thousands of them and oftentimes you don't need ventilators very much ospital zone have very many and now we're turning out that we have to produce large numbers but we've been able to do that and we're going to be doing a lot more. and here's a look at the global picture with the johns hopkins university track there are more than 591000 confirmed infections that the 592000 number with a lack of testing the real number is likely to be much higher than 26000 people have died but almost 131000 have recovered it let's go live now to los angeles and soon as rob reynolds is that for us rob president trump gave a press briefing in the last couple of hours what did he say. well he spent a great deal of time adrian talking about the new partnerships or contracts at the us government has conducted with various private corporations to create of vast number as he said of ventilators and other equipment including mas

president trump tweeted sunday for general motors and tesla being given the go-ahead to make ventilators and other metal products fast.

hopefully general motors will join. under the normal conditions that you would be regular times, 29 times ventilators distributed in the u.s. every year. in the next 100 days, first of all, we've already delivered thousands of them but within the next 100 days, we will either make or get in some form, over 100,000 additional units and to put it in other words the next 100 days, we see over three times the number of ventilators made during a regular here in the united states and that doesn't include all of the thousands and thousands we've given to the various states, a lot of them. we delivered thousands took new york and they didn't know they got them. we also had thousand put in a warehouse, that was also new york. they just found out they were there. we have to make sure when we deliver things, they get distributed. earlier today, i spoke to the ceo of boeing, david calhoun and boeing will be producing and donating face shields to help our medical nationals are the front lines and putting intricate terms of the plast

joining us now is james sackit, the president and ceo of ford motor company. i see you want me to call you jim so i will oblige. explain how this happened, did the white house call you, did fema ask you to start making ventilators. how and why did you decide to do this? >> you know, it is kind of like history at ford has been with world war ii, the arsenal of democracy chronicled the story of us building bombers every 63 minutes. we actually made iron lungs back when there was the polio crisis. and it is inside ford where people remember the stories. so actually the ideas were coming from within the company, asking where they might help. we relay this to the administration, i want to explain that it is a consortium of businesses. in the u.s., general electric, their medical division is working closely with ford and it is such a complicated machine that parts are being subdivided across big supply chains. in the uk, we're working with mclaren. and airbus. prime minister johnson and trying to build ventilators there. so we have to scale this up because the facto

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been all over the place on the need for medical supplies, tweeting, general motors must immediately open their plants and start making ventilators now. the president tweeted, invoke

general motors, we will see what happens. now they are talking. they weren't talking the right way at the beginning and that was not right to the country. >> could you follow up on that, mr. president. last night you told sean hannity you didn't think there was a need for 30 or 40,000 ventilators. today i federalized general motors to produce 30 or 40,000. what changed? >> there is a good chance we won't need that many. frankly there is a great chance we are not going to need that many. you know what? there are a lot of other people that are going to need them. countries all over the world that are friends of ours. we will help those countries. we are in a position to do things other countries can't. we are in an interesting position. we can make them because we will be making over 100,000 pretty quickly. we can make them. if we don't need them, john, that's okay. we can help italy and we can help u.k., boris johnson specifically. when i say how are you feeling? and the first thing boris said to me is we need ventilators. >> surplus will be. >> ab

ed: on that, the order only mentions general motors. is no specific mention of ford who know is working with ge on ventilators and looking at its own as well. this is a product that general motors and ford don't make. both have communicated today throughout the day that they have been doing everything they can in terms of shoring up the supply chain. they have been sharing engineering talent essentially with partners who will make ventilators. they're starting from scratch. analysts one automotive earlier that said when you start production of a new car line, it usually takes two months. this is not a car, it is a ventilator. even last night on fox news, the president was conceding that bonta leaders are a complex thing to build -- thjat ventilators are a complex thing to build and the reason he has not invoked the production act is because ford and gm all are ready setting up. they think they are doing everything they can, they were iterated they are working around-the-clock with their partners to get these ventilators into production.

and that is the majority of our property crime increase, our motor vehicle theft. our arsons are up by five. we have 26 year to date compared to 21 this time last year and that's a 24% increase. in our larceny or theft, they were 4,884 reported this time last year and 4,882 this year. so it's a reduction of or increase of 2. our total property crimes, we had 6,099 this year, and 6,065 last year, so 34 crimes above this time last year for a 1% increase in property crimes. in terms of our violent crimes, good news on our homicides, we had three homicides year to date, this time last year we had sick sixth so that's a 50% reduction. our rapes are down. we had 65 reported this time last year and we had a 58% reduction. our robberies are up. we have 397 reported year to date compared to 354 this time last year for an increase of 43 robberies, that's a 12% increase. our assaults are up. we have 266 year to date compared to 239 last year for an 11% increase in our human trafficking are down, it's a very small number to begin with but we have had three reported human traff

dinner lecture a car also means a smaller motor and no transmission or exhaust. cuts the battery is stowed under the floor all of that frees up more space for passengers and cargo. and is the engine compartment needs precious little cooling the radiator grille is closed off and hence into cars aerodynamics. once you're on the road another benefit of the car's becomes rapidly apparent they're nice little movers. are near always fitted with a more powerful 64 kilowatt battery which boosts output to 150 kilowatts and the chunky 395 newton meters of torque are available from the. south zipping along country roads and overtaking are absolutely no problem. another plus having the battery down under lowers the center of gravity and drain since the car's road hugging abilities. highways however are not the ideal habitat for electric cars they have an electronically limited top speed in the nero's case 167 kilometers per hour but if you do push the pedal to the match old you'll soon have to think about where the next charging station is. and that's where there is still a

blocks built around the 6 armed crane when there's excess energy in the grid it will power electric motors which move the crane arms to lift and stack the 35 ton blocks. now the battery is charged. when electricity is needed the blocks are let down again generators in the crane arms turn the potential energy of the stat blocks into electrical energy which is returned to the grid this leaves the tower discharged. petrecki cement blocks essentially function the way the water in a pumped storage hydroelectric plant but with the advantage according to the inventors that the towers can be built on any terrain and are cheaper. to store the energy very cheaply because we use existing technology like motors and generators mechanical systems that have been around for a 100 years. this seemingly simple idea has garnered quite a lot of attention after his team presented the concept at an energy storage developers conference in the us microsoft founder bill gates mentioned the company to his millions of followers he wrote wind and solar won't reach their potential until we vastly improve energy storag

motor itself has become a byword for violence and corruption my guest this week here in munich is the country's foreign minister everest bartolo he says he wants to improve motos tarnished image but how many more.