The global auto industry spent most of the past five years recovering from the trauma of the financial crisis. Now, with sales largely recovered in the U.S. and still growing in China, most of the world’s big auto makers, and particularly the Detroit Three, are back in the black and have breathing room to look ahead to longer-term challenges. Here are five of the most important issues auto-industry executives face in 2015 and beyond.

#1: Silicon Valley and Detroit – Marriage Made in Heaven or Hell?

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