Posted on 10/02/2017 1:33:13 PM PDT by 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.
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Look at Puerto Rico.....you want to be stuck in that in an all electric world?
“Government Motors has totally lost their mind.”
Must be a democrat running that company.
one word BANKRUPT.
I give them 3 years and the management blaming Trump and the republican party for his failure.
1) Battery technology needs a massive break-through
2) The environmental impact of making and disposing of batteries is likely enormous with the environmental impact costs not yet fully allocated into mass electric vehicles.
3) Outside of the handful of major cities in China, the country is predominantly rural and undeveloped (almost third-world). Construction standards are easy to implement.
4) The USA is has a highly developed infrastructure. Adding or retrofitting 220 volt charging stations for multiple cars in every home, condo, apartment, and commercial location will require 50 to 100 years.
5) The current electrical grid is already under strain on hot or extremely cold days. Adding hundreds of thousands of coal burners?
6) Did anyone think to survey what the consumer wanted or is this a case of being forced to eat creamed spinach because “it’s good for you/the planet”?
No need for coal plants then. Electricity is generated by magic.
>Or until gasoline is outlawed.
that is coming.
In such a scenario, I’d rather go for fuel cells rather than batteries.
That is silly, everything is relative. Maybe they could include a gas or diesel powered home generator to keep them charged.
Are you speaking about the actual drive systems efficiency?
Possibly.
The rest listed? Nahhh
“But it still has that “looks bad on purpose” design that manufacturers feel EVs require.”
And the BMW i3 takes the cake for butt ugly! It’s worse than that thing called “the Cube!”
Assuming of course that there will always be somebody nearby in a Jeep Rubicon to wrench you out of the muck ;-)
The customer is always wrong.
Our betters will tell us what we should buy.
“NO GM vehicles for me”
I want a real car or pickup not an upgraded Flintstone mobile.
When they got limits on imports, then jacked up the price on US cars, and gave their execs a bonus, I swore off GM. That was forty years ago, and I never bought their stuff again.
Didn’t the Volt fail miserably?
I think England said they would be all electric in 20 years, no more gas or diesel after that.
My 2017 F250 diesel is a V8. No issues with the aluminum bed here — much of that chatter comes from GM!
Maybe they could include a gas or diesel powered generator integrated into the car, to eliminate the need for heavy and inefficient batteries.
IKR? ridicules.
When Milton Hershey started Hershey, PA, he was gambling his hard-earned fortune on his ability to figure out how to make chocolate, which at the time was perhaps the most tightly held secret in the world.
That being said, our entire infrastructure is built around petroleum, and I doubt gasoline and diesel will ever disappear. They work.
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