Justin Ho

Carl Brouwer at iccars.com says over the last 20 years, hybrids especially have become a lot cheaper for car companies to produce.

The cost of the batteries has been dropping.

The cost of the motors has been dropping.

The space and the weight that both of those things take up has been dropping.

That's made hybrids way more common and popular.

But last year, Congress and the Trump administration rolled back the federal fuel economy standards.

And some car companies have started making more trucks that don't get great mileage.

So fuel efficiency, Brouwer says, could eventually plateau or even get worse.

I'm Henry App for Marketplace.

Little Saigon's made up of four cities now.

Oh, is that right?

We're in Garden Grove, Westminster, Santa Ana, and Fountain Valley.

I was in her tummy.

So the war ends in 1975.

Mom and dad flee here.

came with nothing and saw a need and created the beauty college because Vietnamese were coming over in tens of thousands being processed.

So dad being a South Vietnamese Navy guy created something so that Vietnamese could have an economic opportunity.

That is correct.

So over 80% of California nail salon and nail salon professionals are Vietnamese and more than 50% nationwide in America.

It's kind of this unknown economy that just was started 51 years ago by the Vietnamese.