President Joe Biden's outgoing administration is finalizing rules on Tuesday that will effectively bar nearly all Chinese cars and trucks from the U.S. market, as part of a crackdown on vehicle software and hardware from China.

But there are some unusual crackdowns coming on Chinese cars, software and even chips, and it's anyone's guess whether they'll stick around in the coming months.  Welcome back to Critical Materials, your daily roundup for all things electric and automotive tech.

The Biden administration finalized a new rule that would effectively ban all Chinese vehicles from the US under the auspices of blocking the “sale or import” of connected vehicle software from “countries of concern.

In a conversation about its Chinese competitors with the host of the Fully Charged Podcast, Robert Llewellyn, he admitted that his daily driver was a car made by one of Ford's Chinese competitors: an EV by consumer electronics giant Xiaomi called the SU7.