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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Reason #3,589 to buy a Ford Super Duty.
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.
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.
They apparently read “The Seventh Plague” and didn’t grasp that it was fiction.
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!
Go ahead, never buying a GM again.. learned my lesson on your crap back in the early 90s....
Or until gasoline is outlawed.
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.
Yeah, that Volt was such a success, they just can’t wait to convert the fleet.
Ask Cadillac how their ELR strategy worked out.
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.
You can take my Red Barchetta from my cold dead hands.
Get some Diesels.
Diesel is much like heating oil....
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.
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.
Um, there’s a good number of us that have commutes greater than 50 miles everyday.
Might be the death of General Motors......
“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.
Gov’t officials will be issued a Diesel powered generator on a small trailer to pull behind their vehicles.
That’s the point.
They will probably STOP making parts for IC engines......................
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