EV sales drop caused decline in US clean investments, report finds

EV sales drop caused decline in US clean investments, report finds

Declining electric vehicle sales caused US clean investment to experience its largest quarterly drop in nearly a decade, part of a larger pullback caused by the elimination of Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. Total investment — including in clean tech manufacturing facilities and retail spending on things like EVs and solar panels — reached a record annual high of $277 billion in 2025, according to the latest data from the Clean Investment M…

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Blow to the EV Supply Chain

Investment in the clean economy is flagging — and the electric vehicle supply chain is taking the biggest hit.The Clean Investment Monitor, a project by the Rhodium Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research that tracks spending on the energy transition, found that total investment in clean technology in the last three months of 2025 was $60 billion. That compares to $68 billion in t…