Panelists at an Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute event proposed policies and solutions to things such as housing availability and electric vehicle production.

Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation will start construction this week on a segment of highway capable of charging electric semi-trucks as they drive over it.

The goal is to lessen the fear of running out of power on the road, something that can keep people from adopting EVs. And 40 percent of the benefits of the program are supposed to go to disadvantaged communities. But an equity group said the state isn't putting in the effort to make sure that happens.

General Motors long argued its battery plants have no legal or practical path to be made part of the same United Auto Workers union contract as the rest of its manufacturing workers. On Friday, the UAW announced the company has now agreed to do just that in a last-ditch effort to avoid a potentially devastating strike.

Amid tense negotiations between the United Auto Workers union and the big three automakers Ford, General Motors and Stellantis union workers have growing concerns about the transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs).

General Motors is preparing the Fort Wayne Assembly plant for the future with a $632 million investment designed to further EV truck production.

Leaders in the electric vehicle industry discussed the future of clean energy and transportation at a conference on Tuesday. Stakeholders shared statistics about the current state of EV infrastructure including charging stations and electric vehicle production and discussed equity concerns, and cooperation between utilities and electric companies.

Six school districts in Indiana will get money from the federal government to buy 13 electric buses and six propane buses.

Local transportation networks will receive added money to plan from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization.

EVs for EVV electric vehicle show featured up to 40 EVs cars, trucks, motorcycles and bicycles alongside Evansville Road Knights Classic Car Show