On Wednesday, May 25th, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced the Strategic EV Management Act of 2022 (S. 4057), which mandates that the Administration create a plan to manage batteries in the federal electric vehicle fleet. President Biden recently ordered that all federal car purchases be zero-emission by 2035, which has intensified the pressure on already-stressed supply chains for electric vehicles, including for minerals like lithium and cobalt. Automakers, including Tesla and Rivian, have warned of the problem, and lawmakers have proposed legislation to aid the electric vehicle supply chain. Thus far, the Biden Administration has announced that it would “spend more than $3 billion to boost domestic manufacturing of batteries and invoking the Defense Production Act to bolster lithium, nickel, graphite, cobalt and manganese production.“ The Energy Department is also making available a separate $60 million program for battery recycling.