General Motors is set to lay off 3,400 workers at facilities building electric vehicles, including more than a thousand employees at a plant in Detroit.
Officials with Idaho Falls Power are moving forward with building new electric vehicle charging stations at a time when work on many other federally-funded EV charging programs has been put on hold.
Congress appropriated $5 billion, but the Trump administration stopped it from reaching states. Washington is leading the legal fight to access the money.
More than 600 electric vehicles are registered in Missoula County, comprising around 5.5% of every 1,000 people. But accommodating those drivers while preparing for growth within the EV industry remains a work in progress.
Despite hostility from the new Trump administration, electric vehicles will eventually become a major part of the nation’s vehicle fleet, experts and researchers say.