as it invests more aggressively in EVs. CEO Jim Farley said Monday that 65% of the company's approximately 3,000 dealers in the U.S. have agreed to sell EVs under Ford's "EV certified" programs. Ford is taking a different tack from, which is requiring dealers to sell EVs if they want to continue selling that company's vehicles. "We think that the EV adoption in the U.S. will take time, so we wanted to give dealers a chance to come back," Farley said.
President Joe Biden is set to join TSMC founder Morris Chang in a visit Tuesday to the company's Phoenix plant, which is expected to start producing chips by 2024. Biden has been pressing for improvements to the chip supply chain as industries from autos to computing have struggled with an overdependence on Chinese suppliers.A building burns after shelling in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on December 4, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.