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Studebaker electric car
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American industrialist
Marc Tarpenning
American entrepreneur
Horace E. Dodge
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Martin Eberhard
American entrepreneur
Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata
Indian businessman
Jürgen Schrempp
German businessman
Louis Schweitzer
French government official and businessman
Sergio Marchionne
Sergio Marchionne
Canadian-Italian businessman
Kawamoto Nobuhiko
Japanese businessman
Giovanni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli
Italian industrialist [1921-2003]
Honda Soichiro
Honda Soichiro
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Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes
British automobile executive
Umberto Agnelli
Italian industrialist
Clement Studebaker
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Ohno Taiichi
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Opel, Fritz von
Fritz von Opel
German industrialist
Fred Fisher
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