Death of gas and diesel begins as GM announces plans for ‘all-electric future’

WaPo ^ | 0-02-2017 | Peter Holley

[NRx]

After nearly a century of building vehicles powered by fossil fuels, General Motors — one of the world’s largest automakers — announced Monday that the end of GM producing internal combustion engines is fast approaching.

The acceleration to an all-electric future will begin almost immediately, with GM releasing two new electric models next year and an additional 18 by 2023.

At a media event at GM’s technical campus in Warren, Mich., on Monday, Mark Reuss, the company’s chief of global product development, said the transition will take time, but the course has been set.

“General Motors believes in an all-electric future,” Reuss said. “Although that future won’t happen overnight, GM is committed to driving increased usage and acceptance of electric vehicles.”

[Tesla’s Model 3 has ‘mass appeal.’ That doesn’t mean you can afford it.]

Reuss avoided naming the year when the auto giant will cease producing gas and diesel vehicles, noting that the company is too large to make such an estimate, according to USA Today.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Let me know, GM, when you invent the flying cars ala “Back to the Future” Part 2.

Until then, I love fossil fuels!

[Pollster1]

I don’t care if GM’s future includes all-electric or not; GM is dead to me. However, this says something about future all of us will deal with. Gasoline and diesel are going to get hard to find.

[Paradox]

Awesome, so this means we are going to start building new, modern Nuclear reactors, right..... Right?... .RIGHT?

[smileyface]

We’ve been off GM since the bailout...

[HamiltonJay]

89 lesabre. Craptastic doesn’t even begin to cover what a POS it was. Dropped its transmission at 75k after being broken down more than working for years before that.

[Red Badger]

As an Obozo staffer said when they first took power, “We can change those laws!”.......................

[Thibodeaux]

It could be argued the end of GM producing any thing will happen first

My neighbor is a diehard chevy man and just bought an american made BMW

[katana]

So, GM, you’ve invented or can get a 500 mile range (with the air conditioner, lights, dashboard display, and four cell phones being charged simultaneously running through the July Mojave desert at noon) battery that recharges from zero to full in under three minutes. Oh, you haven’t? Well then, f*** you!

[alternatives?]

What do you think our leaders could accomplish if their religion was Christianity and not Global Warming?

[Dagnabitt]

Exactly! BMW knows perfectly well how to make nice-looking cars ... yet they make the i3.

[NorthMountain]

But tyrants love electric cars. If you want to prevent mobility, all you have to do is throw a switch at Central Command, and all of those electric vehicles stop moving within a week. You can add controls so that every time an electric car is connected to the grid, it communicates its location and charge state to a central database, and perhaps a log of everywhere it has been and when.

While you're at it, mandate that the thing be "self driving". Can't have the peasants deciding they don't want to go where the oligarchy wants them to go. Can't have them deciding to go where the oligarchy DOESN'T want them to go, either.

[infool7]

It should have the look of an old time steam locomotive with a coal car style carrier trailer so you could pickup several as it chugs them all downtown.

[Fiddlstix]

New! From GM (Government Motors)!

Following The Current Trend of Retro Designed Automobiles

The 0bamawagen

Click the Pic

[IVAXMAN]

http://www.broncoiicorral.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=3468

Guess I will have to convert over to run my Bronco II cummins 4bt on vegetable oil. Could do it in a weekend.

[vette6387]

“Exactly! BMW knows perfectly well how to make nice-looking cars ... yet they make the i3.”

And then there’s the i8 which is their “luxury EV, and it’s amazingly beautiful.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Part of it.

The other part is pollution.

[wally_bert]

I am of the same mindset with my old K5 Blazer.

350 V8s and TH350 transmissions are plentiful.

Over the weekend I had some heartburn over a bad fuel pump and stuck oil filter.

New pump should be here Wednesday and swap out over the weekend.

[catnipman]

“I could see where households might use an electric car for local driving and a gas-powered car for long-range driving That might make sense for some households. “

how many U.S. households can afford an extra $40,000 for a local-errand-mobile + home charging station in addition to a REAL car?

[Dagnabitt]

Not a pure EV, since there’s a 3 cylinder mini cooper engine in there somewhere - but very pretty (and quick)!

[wally_bert]

Or so diluted with ethanol to the point it’s useless.