Biden Wants America to Speed the Shift to Electric Cars
Voice of America
WHITE HOUSE - Within nine years, half of all new vehicles sold in the United States should be zero-emission cars and trucks, according to an executive order signed by President Joe Biden.
The future of the automobile industry is electric, "and there's no turning back," the president said during a White House South Lawn event Thursday afternoon. Biden's target includes battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric and fuel cell electric vehicles. In remarks to reporters after driving an electric Jeep around the South Lawn driveway, the president said that while the United States hesitated to embrace vehicle battery production, "China moved. China now owns the market. So, we just got to get back in the game."
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