Sponsor
Keith Self
Representative · R-TX
The bill strengthens security and grid-resilience priorities by encouraging vetting and domestic sourcing of EV components (protecting supply chains and justifying investment to prevent costly outages), but it risks higher consumer prices, supply constraints, regulatory burdens, and slower EV adoption that could undercut environmental and economic benefits.
All taxpayers and businesses: the bill foregrounds the large economic cost of outages (~$121B/year), strengthening the case for federal funding or programs to reduce blackout risk.
Utilities and grid operators: greater awareness of vehicle-to-grid (VTG) and related risks lets utilities prioritize investments to harden grid stability and resilience.
Transportation workers and grid operators: tighter sourcing/vetting reduces the risk of malicious hardware or firmware in EV charging systems that could harm safety or grid stability.
Vehicle buyers and owners: restrictive sourcing or procurement rules and the push to use costlier domestic parts could raise vehicle and repair prices for consumers.
Consumers, utilities, and climate goals: reduced EV model availability and measures that deter VTG adoption could slow EV uptake and weaken emissions reductions and renewable integration.
Automakers, dealers, and related businesses: new vetting/procurement rules could impose compliance costs, cause delays or lost inventory, and disrupt supply chains and sales.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Bars sale, interstate commerce, and import of EVs, EV equipment, or EV charging power-control components made in whole or in part by designated foreign entities of concern.
Representative · R-TX
Official title: To amend title 49, United States Code, to include certain electric vehicles or related equipment manufactured by, and services provided by, a foreign entity of concern to the noncomplying motor vehicles list, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 12, 2026 by Keith Self · Last progress May 12, 2026
Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, introduction into interstate commerce, or import into the United States of electric vehicles or EV equipment if the vehicle, EV equipment, or certain EV charging control components are manufactured in whole or in part by a defined “foreign entity of concern.” Adds new statutory definitions for “electric vehicle,” “foreign entity of concern,” and “vehicle charge power control component.” The prohibition is subject to existing statutory exceptions already in the motor vehicle safety and import rules. The purpose is to reduce cybersecurity, supply-chain, and national-security risks that the bill associates with foreign-controlled EV manufacturing and vehicle-to-grid technologies by barring market entry of vehicles or components tied to those foreign entities unless an exception applies.