Honda Motor Co. Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe called the decisions “a switch in the planned course,” while stressing the long-term shift toward electrification remained unchanged, just pushed back in time.

The U.S. Senate plans to vote this week to bar California's landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035 that has been adopted by 11 other states, Majority Leader John Thune said on Tuesday.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., or CATL, controls more than a third of the global market for EV batteries and is seeking to expand overseas even as it faces political obstacles in the United States.