US President Joe Biden has acknowledged Tesla’s leadership role as an American electric-vehicle maker. Speaking at the White House on Tuesday about exertions to make sure more things are manufactured in the US, like Intel’s chip-making initiatives, Biden praised the manufacturers working on EVs.

“Since 2021, affairs have announced investments totaling more than $200 billion in domestic industry here in America, from iconic companies like GM and Ford creation out new electric-vehicle production to Tesla, our nation’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, to innovative younger companies like Rivian, building electric trucks, or Proterra, building electric buses,” Biden said.

Biden’s reference of Tesla comes after clashes with the company and its CEO, Elon Musk, comprising Tesla’s exclusion from a White House store for electric-vehicle makers last year. “It’s not the friendliest administration,” Musk reportedly said behindhand that event. “It seems to be controlled by the unions.” Tesla doesn’t spend unionized labor.

Biden’s Build Back Better bill includes a $12,500 tax credit for republic who purchase electric vehicles, but to qualify for it, EVs must be made in the US with union define. The bill has been passed by the House but not the Senate.

Biden on Wednesday also meant to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which included $7.5 billion to produce out a national network of EV chargers along highways.

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“Later this week, we’re progressing to announce a state-by-state allocation for $5 billion of the allow for these chargers, so states can start making plans to produce out what will become a national network of electric-vehicle chargers,” Biden added. “Tritium’s new facility is going to produce up to 30,000 of these chargers every year.”

This will help make sure the US is the domain leader in EVs, Biden said. “America is building convenient, reliable, equitable, national public charging networks. So wherever you live, charging an electric vehicle will be radiant and easy.”