The administration also announced the launch of the American Battery Materials Initiative, a new effort to secure the supply of critical minerals used for power, electricity, and EVs.
The electric vehicle manufacturer showed off its Joliet, Ill., facility to guests including U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
The companies are working together to help school districts find available grant funding from federal and state agencies to replace older diesel school buses with greener alternatives.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency aims to help non-prioritized applicants get the most funding possible for new battery-electric school buses in tandem with the EPA's Clean School Bus Program.
The new agreement opens their Type A school bus electrification partnership to include both GM and Ford chassis platforms.
The federal funding will assist plans by U.S. manufacturers to build new factories and retrofit existing ones to make EV batteries and related parts.
Of Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan, $174 billion would be for building electric vehicle charging infrastructure and $115 billion for repairing highways and bridges.
Eligible projects include, hydrogen fuel cells, battery electric engines, and related infrastructure such as charging stations.
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