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General Motors plans to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035
CNBC ^ | JAN 28 202111:00 AM EST | Michael Wayland

Posted on 01/28/2021 8:32:57 AM PST by Hojczyk

GM plans to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035, ending production of its cars, trucks and SUVs with diesel- and gasoline-powered engines.

The company’s “aspirations” are part of a larger plan for the Detroit automaker to be carbon neutral by 2040 in its global products and operations.

GM’s plan comes a day after President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders that prioritize climate change.For several years, GM has touted a guiding “triple zero vision,” including a future with zero emissions through electric vehicles, but it never announced a timeframe. The other goals include zero congestion and zero crashes through advanced safety technologies and self-driving vehicles.

“For General Motors, our most significant carbon impact comes from tailpipe emissions of the vehicles that we sell – in our case, it’s 75 percent,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in message on LinkedIn. “That is why it is so important that we accelerate toward a future in which every vehicle we sell is a zero-emissions vehicle.”

Electric vehicles, including battery-electric and fuel cell-powered vehicles, are currently a niche segment of the global automotive industry, estimated at less than 5% of sales by analysts. EVs are more costly to produce than those with internal combustion engines due to the battery and fuel cells that power the vehicles. But automotive executives and analysts are bullish that EVs, led by stricter regulations to reduce carbon emissions, are the future for the automotive industry.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: automotive; electric
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To: dfwgator

In the 90s there was all this talk of user independence. We had client-server computers where much of the software was on our PCs and fuel cells were going to allow people to have their own power plants on their property. Now we have dumb terminals hooked to the cloud and eCars hooked to the grid. We are being assimilated.


81 posted on 01/28/2021 9:50:24 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: Hojczyk

GM’s Triple Zero Vision,
- Zero pollution
- Zero customer appeal
- Zero sales


82 posted on 01/28/2021 9:51:03 AM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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To: absalom01

See my comment #81


83 posted on 01/28/2021 9:51:46 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: Hojczyk

I guess GM is willing to cede the half ton pickup market to RAM and Ford!


84 posted on 01/28/2021 9:53:45 AM PST by mtrott
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To: palmer

Well alrighty then - and it’s a darn good thing I drive a Ford truck!


85 posted on 01/28/2021 9:55:17 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: Hojczyk

Electric vehicles DO NOT work to reduce emissions!!! Where do you think that the energy to power them comes from?

They use materials that almost exclusively come from CHINA!!!!

And they are too expensive for even many middle class people and families!!!

PHOOEY, PHOOEY, and PHOOEY again!!!!


86 posted on 01/28/2021 9:57:01 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Hojczyk

That gives GM plenty of time to come up with reasons why they must change their objectives but will help keep the climate loons happy till then.


87 posted on 01/28/2021 9:57:09 AM PST by Valk Rider
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To: Sirius Lee

AOC - “Every electric vehicle shall have a 1.21 gigawatt wind turbine mounted on it’s roof!”

Me - But, AOC, it requires coal to make the steel for those wind turbines ...

AOC - “That’s not a problem ... we can use coal-free steel from China.”

Me - But, AOC, Chinese steel is of inferior quality - it easily fractures.

AOC - “Yes, but that will just mean we will need create more jobs to build the replacement turbines!”

Me - But, AOC, those jobs will be in China - not the U.S.!

AOC - “Sure; but with all the free stuff I will be giving away, including those electric GM cars, Americans will no longer need to have jobs! See? Easy Peezy!”

Me - Triple Face-Palm.


88 posted on 01/28/2021 10:03:17 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: absalom01

That’s a handy side benefit, making rural and suburban areas look less attractive.

They can try this.

But with everything else they’re doing, it won’t stem the flood of people fleeing urban areas.


89 posted on 01/28/2021 10:03:39 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Sooth2222

Manual transmissions - the millennial anti-theft device.


90 posted on 01/28/2021 10:04:31 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: JME_FAN
I drive a Ford sedan. I may need to pick a new brand since Ford is phasing out manual transmissions.
91 posted on 01/28/2021 10:04:48 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: OVERTIME

LOL! Looks like you’ve put in a little OVERTIME in posting this reply.


92 posted on 01/28/2021 10:07:53 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: absalom01

If I had nickel for each article of the next, super duper battery technology that will revolutionize that sphere, I’d be filthy rich. But so far they all seem to be just some theory or research project that never enters the marketplace.
Speaking of torque, this is some very cool new motor tech.

https://linearlabsinc.com/technology-3d-flux-path-high-torque-motors/


93 posted on 01/28/2021 10:10:29 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: palmer

With only one exception, since 1977, every vehicle I have owned had a 5-speed manual transmission. Now I’ve bought my first pick-up - a Ford F150-XLT SPORT, short bed. Could not get it with a manual trans, so had to take the #@!%^$&*!! “20-speed” automatic. I wonder how long it will last before failing.


94 posted on 01/28/2021 10:15:26 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: BiglyCommentary
The big problem in battery development is the limitations of chemistry. The more energy you stuff into those chemical bonds that make up the battery material the more volatile the material is.
95 posted on 01/28/2021 10:17:40 AM PST by Reily
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To: JME_FAN
That's what I am afraid of too. Automatics used to have 10,000 little gears inside them any one of which could fai. I don't know if they've changed that with more modern transmissions but I guess we will find out soon enough.
96 posted on 01/28/2021 10:25:22 AM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: All

This is what happens when you make a globull warming true believer the CEO of a car company. I am sure Obama put her in there.


97 posted on 01/28/2021 10:30:59 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Hojczyk

Looks like Government Motors will be going bankrupt again.

How are they going to create the energy to power these so-called “electric” vehicles? Burning oil? Coal? Building nuclear power plants? Fat chance.


98 posted on 01/28/2021 11:00:48 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Bite Me.....The Commander-in-Thief, Commander-in-Cheat, Illegitimate president!)
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To: Hojczyk

Good luck.

5.56mm


99 posted on 01/28/2021 11:01:42 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: Hojczyk

I put about 1000 miles a year on my car. My immediate family lives within 5 miles of me. By 2035 I will be 88 and my car will have about 75,000 miles on it. That leaves me about 25 years before it reaches 100,000. That takes me up to 113 years old and I don’t plan on driving after that.


100 posted on 01/28/2021 11:10:50 AM PST by Starstruck ( Since I'm old I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both.)
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