The future of US government vehicles is electric

US President Joe Biden has vowed to replace the nation’s government vehicles with an American-made electrically powered fleet, CNBC reports. The commitment came as part of the “Buy American” executive order, which is designed, as its name suggests, to stimulate government procurement of US-made products. America’s switch to electric vehicles won’t happen overnight though. It’ll also be quite expensive and challenging because there isn’t a huge amount of choice when it comes to US-made EVs. [Read: How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by data] Perhaps the most obvious is Tesla, but General Motors and Nissan also produce electric vehicles in…

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