Ford’s plans for multi-billion dollar manufacturing sites for electric vehicles has Tennessee and Kentucky singing a different tune on cleaner energy.
The plan finally approved on Friday will address transportation, water, broadband, energy and public safety needs that have been building for years, sometimes decades.
A push to increase sales of electric vehicles favors companies that already have all-electric cars on the market and could penalize those that don’t.
President Biden, surrounded by labor and business leaders from the American auto industry, signed an executive order on Thursday setting a national goal to have half of all new vehicles sold by 2030 be electric.
President Biden announces an initiative that aims for half of all new vehicles sold by 2030 to be electric. The plan also includes the construction of nationwide charging stations and financial incentives for consumers and carmakers.
President Biden announces an initiative that aims for half of all new vehicles sold by 2030 to be electric. The plan also includes the construction of nationwide charging stations and financial incentives for consumers and carmakers.
The White House and bipartisan lawmakers have agreed on a package that would provide funding for roads, bridges and other physical infrastructure.
A bipartisan package includes the largest-ever federal spending for electric vehicle charging stations, public transit and clean water.
Joe Biden's monumental environmental gambit.
The president wants to use pollution rules to rapidly lift sales, but there are hurdles ahead.
Experts say the details of the spending will matter — and that, in some areas, more money will be needed to fix beleaguered roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
A swath of recommendations calls for more investments, new supply chains and less reliance on other countries for crucial goods.
President Biden and Democrats are facing difficult decisions about how to move their infrastructure plan through Congress as bipartisan momentum flags.
If it sells well, an electric version of the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. could help accelerate the move to electric vehicles.
The transition to an electric-car future will be an uphill battle, with the president and Republicans in Congress at odds over his $4 trillion economic agenda.
Transitioning to electric vehicles is a key part of Biden’s $4 trillion economic agenda, and Ford’s rollout of an electric version of America’s most popular vehicle is an important milestone.
A race is on to produce lithium in the United States, but competing projects are taking very different approaches to extracting the vital raw material. Some might not be very green.
The president’s plans to cut emissions in half by 2030 relies heavily on a government effort to steer the development of new industries, but business leaders are fretting over the rapid timeline.
Hitting the targets could require a rapid shift to electric vehicles, the expansion of forests nationwide, development of complex new carbon-capture technology and many other changes, researchers said.
The settlement between LG Energy Solutions and SK Innovation ensures that a battery plant in Georgia will go forward without hampering electric vehicle production.