WHOOPS...SORRY, FORGET TO CLICK ON THE BUTTON TO POST MY BLOG YESTERDAY.  CLICK ON       RISE OF VACCINE MANDATES to read that article. ********************************************* I was sent this video on the French Peugeot e-Legend electric concept car, which was introduced in 2018 for a company then celebrating half a century of existence: Of course, concept cars are just that, they represent the future, many times unrealistically.  In 2019 Peugot announced that they would not mass produce this vehicle because the assembly line start-up would cost $300 million, and they would need to sell the car at $95,000, even if they rolled-off 20,000 cars. France has never been a player in world car sales, and, come to think of it, I don't think I've ever been in one.  The most prominent companies are Citroen ( and this is one of their concept cars....from 1955 ), which sold their first vehicle 102 years ago in 1919.  They have had a checkered existence, once ...

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