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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Guess I won’t be buying GM.
I plan to be 40 years younger and extremely rich by 2035.
And what powers the electric car...
Short GM........................
And the grid to charge them will be ready by 2065.
“I plan to be 40 years younger and extremely rich by 2035.”
That’s good stuff! I was just thinking, good chance I won’t be here by then, so promise anything.
You won’t have to.
Fedzilla will.
And GM will laugh all the way to the bank with their taxpayer-funded fleet sales revenues.
Should God let me live to be 80 in 2035, I will laugh......................
It’s known as Government Motors for a reason.
Will have etched-in bumper sticker messages on all GM vehicles:
Love Ya’, Greta and BLM Forever.
No cost for this free option.
Covering or defacing this will mean one year in Gulag.
who cares? no one in my family has bought a used GM since 2008
all our cars now are ford or Toyota
GM is a political organization.
We’ll see how long this statement holds water.
The plan to, but by around 2024 or so those plans will get pushed back to 2040, 2045...
GM executives are clearly idiots... if this is serious. But I predict that when 2029 arrives their “target” will be 2040.
GM will be bankrupt in 2036.
And the government will take money from you to pay someone else to buy it.
Happy days are here again!
Word is the 2035 e-Vette Z-06 will have dual flux capacitors.
This conflicts with my plans to drive polluting gasoline vehicles for the rest of my life.
“What’s good for GM is good for America!”....................
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