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The Biden administration is awarding $3 billion to U.S. companies to boost domestic production of advanced batteries and other materials used for electric vehicles, part of a continuing push to reduce China's global dominance in battery production. The grants announced Friday will fund a total of 25 projects in 14 states, including battleground states such as Michigan and North Carolina.

The investment gives Toyota and Lexus customers access to the public network of DC fast chargers Ionna will start deploying later this year. Financial terms weren't disclosed.

The federal funding will go to school districts and charter schools across 13 North Carolina counties, with priority given to schools that serve low-income, rural or tribal communities.

Drivers of electric vehicles will have to pay a $180 annual registration fee starting Jan. 1, in addition to other existing charges. Previously, the fee was $140. The newly implemented annual registration fee for plug-in hybrid vehicles is $90.

With the number of electric vehicles on the road increasing year after year, we check in on the state of EVs.

Vietnamese automaker Vinfast has plunged right into the crowded and hypercompetitive U.S. auto market, gambling that if it can sell its electric vehicles to finicky Americans, it can succeed anywhere.

The three-month pilot program from NCDOT and the Town of Cary aims to reduce carbon emissions.

States received millions from a federal settlement with Volkswagen, after the automaker admitted to equipping diesel cars with devices that helped them cheat on emissions tests.

Three separate lawsuits look to halt the Postal Service's purchases of thousands of gas-powered trucks as the agency modernizes its delivery fleet.

A Vietnamese automaker has chosen to open its first U.S. plant in Chatham County and is planning to pump out as many as 150,000 electric vehicles starting in 2024.