The company formerly known as Google has seen almost a 16 per cent rise in share price from when Trump was confirmed as having won the US election in early November, and while it has held fairly steady across the past month, the final week of Joe Biden’s administration did see an initial 1.6 per cent rise.

President-elect Donald Trump is set to assume office in less than a week on Jan. 20. His reelection sent jitters across the clean energy ecosystem, and not without reason. Trump has vowed to end the “EV mandate” — policies designed to disincentivize driving gas-powered cars — on the very first day of his presidency.

President Donald Trump vowed to eliminate the electric vehicle mandate in his inaugural address. There is no mandate. His statement can mean a few things for Tesla and the U.S. auto industry. “We will end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate,