The administration has announced plans to ban vehicles with Chinese software or connectivity-related hardware. U.S.-made cars, though, have their own consumer protection issues.

The Biden administration's proposed ban on Chinese connected-car technology could prove its strongest weapon yet to fend off an onslaught of cheap Chinese electric vehicles that has upended the global auto industry.

The US is planning to ban certain hardware and software made in China and Russia from cars, trucks and buses in the US due to security risks. Officials said they were worried that the technology in question,