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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The former CEO of Lordstown Motors Corp. has bought the company’s assets for $10 million, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Toyota Motor Corp.’s campaign to show customers, suppliers and investors that it’s serious about electrification was on display again this month.

The same Ohio river valley where the Wright brothers pioneered human flight will soon be manufacturing cutting-edge electric planes that take off and land vertically.

Electrify America Director of Energy Services Jigar Shah is in charge of navigating a wide range of rates charged by more than 200 electric utilities in areas where the company has stations.

Electric cars are smashing all kinds of records in the U.S. Their share of new cars exceeded 7% for the first half of the year, speeding past a critical tipping point for mass adoption.

Up to $100 million in government grants is available for states and local governments to repair and replace broken electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

If you want to know how quickly electric vehicles might spread across the U.S., just look at California. In the past five years, EVs have gone from 2% of new-car sales in the state to 22%.

Concerns are growing that California is falling behind in its ability to provide enough electric vehicle charging options to meet its own aggressive targets.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is partnering with Tesla Inc. to install 20,000 universal electrical vehicle chargers at 2,000 of its hotels in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Unprofitable Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast Auto Pte Ltd. is now worth more than the likes of Goldman Sachs Group and Boeing Co.