Congress pushing bills that would give Commerce and Defense departments power to quash threat electric vehicles pose

The Commerce Department proposed a rule Monday that would ban importing or selling certain electric cars in the United States with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and Russia. The proposed rule aligns with what one lawmaker has been pushing for months. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a former CIA analyst and Pentagon official, introduced legislation in May that would give the Commerce Department the power to “limit or ban the introduction of [connected] vehicles from U.S. markets if they pose...