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Death of gas and diesel begins as GM announces plans for ‘all-electric future’
WaPo ^ | 0-02-2017 | Peter Holley

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automakers; automotive; electriccars; elonmusk; energy; falcon9; falconheavy; generalmotors; globalwarminghoax; gm; obamanation; spacex
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To: NRx

Reason #3,589 to buy a Ford Super Duty.


21 posted on 10/02/2017 1:41:18 PM PDT by LittleSpotBlog
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To: Texas Fossil

If they can accomplish it while keeping them affordable, reliable, longer lasting and available I say he’ll go for it! Electric is FAR more powerful than combustion in both speed, torque, and power.


22 posted on 10/02/2017 1:41:21 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: NRx
I have a 2004 GMC Yukon that I really enjoy.

When the motor goes out I will put new one in. When the transmission goes out I will put a new one in. Etc, etc.

I plan on driving it as long as I can get parts for it.

23 posted on 10/02/2017 1:41:44 PM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: NRx

They apparently read “The Seventh Plague” and didn’t grasp that it was fiction.


24 posted on 10/02/2017 1:43:13 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: NRx

So instead of 650 hp supercharged Corvettes, they will come with electric motors and long cords. Zora Arkus-Duntov is spinning in his grave at 7,000 RPM!


25 posted on 10/02/2017 1:43:23 PM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: NRx

Go ahead, never buying a GM again.. learned my lesson on your crap back in the early 90s....


26 posted on 10/02/2017 1:43:44 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Slyfox
I plan on driving it as long as I can get parts for it.

Or until gasoline is outlawed.

27 posted on 10/02/2017 1:43:51 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: chiller
they’re betting the technology advances dramatically by the time they’re also ready to fully convert.

Yep. This.

I’d sell my stock.

Yep, this too. If it works, they're geniuses. More likely than not, though? Epic Failure. Awful lot of moving parts need to come together, and they're mostly in the electric utility sector and completely out of GM's hands.

Decisions like this make me wonder who's in charge, and if they've bought into the whole climate-change/eco-lunatic fringe, who think that electricity magically appears at wall outlets. True believers would make decisions like this, and wonder what happened when reality intrudes.

28 posted on 10/02/2017 1:44:19 PM PDT by wbill
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To: NRx

Yeah, that Volt was such a success, they just can’t wait to convert the fleet.

Ask Cadillac how their ELR strategy worked out.


29 posted on 10/02/2017 1:44:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: NRx

As an EV advocate (not compulsory, just great technology), I do wonder why several major manufacturers are making “going to 100% EV” noises. Abandoning core competencies rarely ends well.


30 posted on 10/02/2017 1:45:01 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: NRx
More likely the death of Gibsmedat Motors
31 posted on 10/02/2017 1:45:15 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: AlaskaErik

You can take my Red Barchetta from my cold dead hands.


32 posted on 10/02/2017 1:45:32 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Get some Diesels.

Diesel is much like heating oil....


33 posted on 10/02/2017 1:45:41 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: NRx

So when you are driving a car and it runs out of ‘juice’ we can just hike to the ‘juice station’ and get a 200 pound battery of ‘juice’ or 500 pounds of ‘juice connected’ jumper cables?

I’M IN!

Have to go, need to wash my $600 socks in Evian & FauxWoolite.


34 posted on 10/02/2017 1:46:39 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: RayChuang88

The Bolt’s range is impressive. But it still has that “looks bad on purpose” design that manufacturers feel EVs require.

About the only non-goofball looking EV’s are the Teslas, and vehicles that are the EV siblings of gasoline vehicles, such as the VW e-Golf.


35 posted on 10/02/2017 1:47:14 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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To: NRx

Um, there’s a good number of us that have commutes greater than 50 miles everyday.


36 posted on 10/02/2017 1:48:40 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: NRx

Might be the death of General Motors......


37 posted on 10/02/2017 1:48:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: LittleSpotBlog

“Reason #3,589 to buy a Ford Super Duty.”

You mean like the one we just rented with the V10 gas engine that “spit out” a spark plug?
Go read about Ford’s Modular Engine’s multiple points of failure before you buy!
Another “good idea from Ford!” #2 is the aluminum bed.


38 posted on 10/02/2017 1:48:51 PM PDT by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: cyclotic

Gov’t officials will be issued a Diesel powered generator on a small trailer to pull behind their vehicles.


39 posted on 10/02/2017 1:49:09 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Slyfox

That’s the point.

They will probably STOP making parts for IC engines......................


40 posted on 10/02/2017 1:49:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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