Computer-aided driving has official support and public acceptance, but state media seldom reports crashes or safety incidents, and online posts are censored.
A huge run-up in the stock’s value followed a 2018 vote on Elon Musk’s compensation package. But investors have recently become less enamored.
The shift, which could reshape the American auto market, is designed to encourage sales of electric vehicles and hybrids.
Automakers are exploring energy storage as a way to help utilities and save customers money, turning an expensive component into an industry asset.
More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.
Automakers and dealers are starting to offer discounts, low-interest loans and other incentives to lure buyers as the supply of cars grows.
He has vowed to shred President Biden’s E.V. policies and has threatened that “You won’t be able to sell those cars.”
The union, which lost an organizing vote at two factories last week, argued to federal officials that the automaker had violated labor laws.
The election, fiercely opposed by the state’s political leaders, was seen as a test of the United Automobile Workers’ ability to unionize factories in the South.
Southern political leaders say a win for the United Automobile Workers would threaten their economies. Activists want to strike a blow against a system they say exploits the poor.