If you have a vested interest in all the progress America has been making to forge a cleaner energy future, including with its automotive industry, the news that President Donald Trump will return to the White House is probably not what you wanted today. As we've covered exhaustively over the past few months, much of the electric vehicle transition in the world's second-largest car market was driven by new policies from the Biden administration. Those included EV charger growth and tax incentives to buy electric cars and build them stateside. Trump has vowed to target those policies if he was reelected, which he was last night in a possible landslide. So "What now?" is a pretty valid question for the auto industry, the charging industry, policymakers and the planet as a whole.
On today's edition of Critical Materials, we begin the process of figuring out what that all means.
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