In addition to consumer price declines in January, wholesale prices fell last month, and have been down in every month since October 2022.
The recall follows a similar move by the company in the United States to upgrade the cars’ Autopilot feature.
A mainstay of cargo transport will be phased out at ports as California bans new registrations of carbon-fuel trucks in favor of nonpolluting ones.
Federal regulators said the automaker had not done enough to make sure that drivers were paying attention while using Autopilot.
Under pressure from federal regulators, the company has agreed to recall two million cars to update its driver-assistance system. The cars will be updated over cellular networks.
The British and European car industries had lobbied for a delay in a measure that would have added costly tariffs to many electric vehicles.
The British and European car industries had lobbied for a delay in a measure that would have added costly tariffs to many electric vehicles.
The Biden administration issued new rules to prevent Chinese firms from supplying parts for electric cars set to receive billions of dollars in tax credits.
Some firms argue that a law aimed at popularizing electric vehicles risks turning the United States into an assembly shop for Chinese-made technology.
President Biden’s 2022 climate act spurred big investments in U.S. battery factories, but it has not similarly boosted E.V. sales.