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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, May 14th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

If you're considering buying an electric car, you're probably thinking about the impact your choice will have on the environment.

But how can that choice affect the economy?

We'll find out why the economic impact of EVs matters and why some governments

are pulling back on their financial support for the industry.

And then, in under two years, the bargain app Temu has become the second most popular shopping

app in the US after Amazon by monthly users.

It's spent billions of dollars to acquire new US users. But now Temu is looking to reduce its reliance on American

customers. W.S.J. reporter Shenlouh joins us to explain why. We're starting though with a look at green technologies.

Some Western governments are scaling back their commitments to EVs.

Not because these technologies aren't doing enough for the environment,

but because of their effect on the economy. Stephen Wilmot is an editor of the Wall Street

journals heard on the street column.

And he joins me now with more on the question of whether EVs are helping or hurting the economy.

So Stephen, you wrote that assessing the economic impact of green technologies is messy.

Why is it so tricky?

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