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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, December 18th. I'm Alex Ocala for the Wall Street Journal. First on today's show, Washington and the auto industry have poured billions of dollars into electric vehicles.

Despite the push, dealers around the country say EVs are becoming harder to sell.

We'll find out why sales growth has slowed and what it will take to get more

consumers into EVs with W.S.J. reporter Sean McClain.

And then AI is becoming a useful tool across many industries, but could it be used to combat climate change?

Google Chief Sustainability Officer Kate Brandt says AI can be doing a lot more to make the world

more energy efficient and reduce global carbon emissions.

We'll hear her recent conversation with W.S.J. Paris Bureau Chief Stacy Mytree about Google's

AI strategy.

First up, are electric vehicles an appealing purchase? Sure, the federal government has offered tax credits to make them more affordable and some manufacturers have lent EVs a certain coolness factor.

Despite the incentives, some dealers say EVs are becoming a hard sell.

EV sales growth has slowed in the U.S this year, and it's leaving car retailers with excess inventory.

Joining me to talk about it is W.S.J. reporter Sean McClain.

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