ACT Expo 2025: Battery experts fret tariffs, encourage specific designs

There's a chaotic elephant in almost every room of the 2025 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo: Tariffs and the Trump administration's seemingly hostile approach to environmentally friendly technology like EVs and alternative energy sources.

The Trump administration's announcement on the second day of the ACT Expo that it would be lowering auto tariffs only underscored the uncertainty.