The proposed House GOP tax bill moving through Congress could kill the federal tax credit for electric vehicles (EVs)

Tesla scrambled this week to reassure investors after expensive delays have plagued production of the Model 3

A recent Bloomberg column highlighted the challenges automakers have faced locking in affordable prices for cobalt, a metal critical to the manufacture of electric vehicles (EVs):

China is on the verge of having to deal with the disposal of “a slew of batteries” from electric vehicles (EVs)

Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA) has announced plans to use $14 million from Virginia’s settlement with automaker Volkswagen (VW) to build a statewide electric vehicle charging network.

California Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) plans to introduce a bill that would ban the sale of new cars powered by internal-combustion engines

A proposal in California could ban all non-electric cars: The internal combustion engine’s days could be numbered in California, where officials are mulling whether a ban on sales of polluting autos is needed to achieve long-term targets for cleaner air.

A recent Bloomberg report highlighted that rival automakers are being forced to fund Tesla, through electric vehicle (EV) credits in California:

Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company, Rosatom, plans join “the lithium rush” to cash-in on rising demand for the metal used in electric vehicle batteries: Russia’s state-owned nuclear corporation is joining the lithium rush as it seeks to profit from the boom in electric vehicles whose batteries use the metal.