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President Joe Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg boasted about how high gas prices are forcing Americans towards electric vehicles during an interview on Thursday on REAL 92.3’s Big Boy TV. 

A group of YouTubers called Fast Lane Truck tested electric and gas-powered trucks to see how far they could haul a trailer, and the results seemed to speak for themselves.

Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Thursday that it hopes to attract over $2.7 billion in foreign investments to develop its lithium industry by the end of this decade. Lithium is a vital component for batteries, including those employed by electric vehicles.

A Warren Buffett-backed Chinese electric auto maker has passed Tesla to lead the world after selling more electric cars in the first half of this year than Elon Musk’s company.

Americans have been suffering from rising gas prices, and now, monthly car payments have grown to the highest recorded.

The Biden administration’s push to get more people driving an electric vehicle (EV) has hit a roadblock: EV prices have surged from a year ago, data released Monday shows.

President Joe Biden again argued during a speech on Wednesday that electric vehicles were a solution to high gas prices.

The Texas Department of Transportation plans to ramp up infrastructure for electric vehicles, laying out a five-year plan which includes adding charging stations to major interstates, despite the fact that fewer than one percent of Texans drive an electric vehicle.

Ford has instructed dealers to temporarily halt sales of its top-selling electric vehicle, the Mustang Mach-E, due to a potential safety defect that could leave the car immobile. The problem impacts about 49,000 out of 100,000 Mustang Mach-Es that have been built, and will likely result in a recall on vehicles already sold.

China has spent much of the past two decades cornering Chile’s lucrative copper and lithium markets, potentially making it impossible for nearly any other country to establish a formidable “green” economy, as both resources are pivotal in the making of electric vehicles.

Lawmakers at the European Parliament approved a measure to support the ban on sales of petrol and diesel cars by the year 2035.

Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said that gas prices “didn’t matter” to her because she drives an electric vehicle while millions of Americans feel the financial burden of record-high gas prices. 

The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend on a four-day road trip from New Orleans to Chicago and back in an electric vehicle (EV) that ended up as a disaster — one that left the author grateful for her ordinary car, even at today’s high gas price.

Ford CEO Jim Farley recently stated that he believes that the electric car market will soon enter a price war with upcoming models costing as little as $25,000. Farley seems thrilled with the prospects of manufacturing electric vehicles, which may impact manufacturing employment. He describes EVs as “Half the fixtures, half the work stations, half the welds, 20% less fasteners. We designed it, because it’s such a simple product, to radically change the manufacturability.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday praised China for “leading the world in renewable energy generation and electric vehicles.”

Tesla owner Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) ‘would love’ to swap her Model 3 for another electric vehicle almost a month after her Twitter feud with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Bloomberg News reported.

One in four public electric vehicle charging stations in the San Francisco Bay Area does not work, according to a new study.

The Saudi Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources on Friday announced $6 billion in funding for a plant that will manufacture metals for electric vehicle batteries, plus plans for another $32 billion invested into Saudi Arabia’s mining industry.

Joe Biden and other Green New Deal advocates continue to push for electric vehicles but without the necessary domestic supply of batteries. For now, the United States is dependent on the Chinese Communist Party for the necessary critical minerals and other elements needed to build them.

New York City residents have been reluctant to embrace electric vehicles as the city pursues a transition to “sustainable transportation.”

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) offered electric vehicles as a solution to Mainers’ increased energy costs during a recent discussion with a Northeastern University technology center in Portland.

American voters in strong majorities reject Joe Biden’s energy policies designed around so-called climate change and want reliable and affordable domestic energy.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) blasted President Biden for being out of touch on Sunday following reports of the president drafting an executive order to invoke the Defense Production Act to help produce material for electric car batteries.

The failed presidential candidate and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana spoke at the White House with Vice President Kamala Harris to promote clean transportation, after the average cost of gas spiked over $4 a gallon over the weekend.

A stricken cargo ship carrying over 1000 luxury vehicles alongside assorted electric cars bound for America from Germany sank Tuesday in the mid-Atlantic.

President Joe Biden promised Monday to continue working to bring down the price of gasoline, less than three months after his historic release of oil from the strategic oil reserves.

President Joe Biden on Monday expressed his approval on social media about the number of Super Bowl advertisements promoting electric vehicles.

Tax incentives put in place by the UK Conservative party to push people towards green motoring is expected to burn an £8bn-shaped hole in the public finances should new charges not be introduced, according to a new report.

The Biden administration is pushing back on the United States Postal Service’s plan for a new fleet of gasoline-powered delivery trucks.

E-commerce giant Amazon is reportedly demanding such a large number of electric delivery vans in its quest to take over the American economy, that so far no automaker has been able to keep up.

New York City is moving towards the use of electric vehicles with the announcement that it is adding 184 Ford Mustang Mach-E Electric SUVs to its vehicle fleet and approving the option to purchase 250 Tesla Model 3 electric sedans. The majority of the vehicles will be assigned to the NYPD and various emergency service departments. 

Two cobalt salt plants in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang halted production on December 10 in response to local Chinese coronavirus “flare-ups,” the Global Times reported Thursday, noting the labor suspensions threaten to cause a spike in the prices of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, which rely on cobalt as a key component.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) state budget does not have enough money to meet Mills’ “clean transportation” goals and her administration is now floating ideas for new sources of funding, including a gas tax, according to a report the administration released this month.

Vice President Kamala Harris promoted government spending on charging stations for electric vehicles on Monday, demonstrating the use of a car charger herself.

The supply chain necessary to produce electric vehicles is littered with nations that abuse human rights and environmental best practices.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined forces on Thursday to promote Proterra, a Burlingame, California-based electric bus company that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm previously sat on the board of and held stock in, which garnered her $1.6 million when she finally divested them 157 days after her nomination.