U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the grand opening of General Motors' Detroit-Hamtramck EV Factory Zero on Nov. 17, 2021. The president added $7.5 billion to create new electric vehicle charging stations as part of his infrastructure package recently passed by Congress and signed into law on Monday. Main Factoryzero 111721 Kpm 1594
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will showcase his administration’s efforts to promote electric vehicles during a visit to the Detroit auto show. Biden is a self-proclaimed gearhead who owns a 1967 Corvette Stingray. The Democratic president may get the chance to slide behind the wheel of a snazzy new vehicle when he visits the auto show Wednesday. But Biden is mostly going there to talk shop — to highlight the new climate, tax and health care law that offers tax incentives for buying electric vehicles. Most of the recent electric vehicle battery and assembly plant announcements were in the works long before Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law last month.
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