Tesla hiked its prices for its electric vehicles in the United States and China for the second time in a week, after CEO Elon Musk said that the company was facing inflation pressures in raw materials and logistics. The electric car company had last raised its prices on March 9. Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y have seen massive cost hikes as metal prices are on the rise due to sanctions on Russia, which had supplied the raw materials, and the already existing supply chain crisis. The prices of metals used in cars have soared globally—including aluminum, which is used in the bodywork; palladium for catalytic converters; and nickel and lithium, key components that power electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The price of nickel surged 130 percent this year alone, according to analysts at Wells Fargo, while aluminum, cobalt, and lithium are up by between 16 percent and 88 percent. In a tweet …