General Motors plans to exclusively offer
electric vehicles by 2035
CNBC,
by
Michael Wayland
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/28/2021 3:01:53 PM
DETROIT — General Motors wants to end production of all diesel- and gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs by 2035 and shift its entire new fleet to electric vehicles as part of a broader plan to become carbon neutral by 2040, the company said Thursday.
The company plans to use 100% renewable energy to power its U.S. facilities by 2030 and global facilities by 2035 — five years ahead of a previously announced goal.
GM’s announcement comes a day after President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders that prioritize climate change across all levels of government and put the U.S. on track to curb planet-warming carbon emissions.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Bazi 1/28/2021 3:08:01 PM (No. 677590)
Will we get to have one in our gulag?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 1/28/2021 3:12:31 PM (No. 677596)
Wouldn't be the first miscalculation GM has ever made.
57 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 1/28/2021 3:14:07 PM (No. 677598)
The U.K. already looked into this. They found not enough battery raw material to supply all of the U.K. so how is GM going to do it?
18 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/28/2021 3:14:41 PM (No. 677599)
I'll be 92 years old, if I live that long, so I guess my hot rod toys will be obsolete by then, like their owner.
22 people like this.
And by 2035, they will price the all electric vehicles at $100 Billion dollars, and only three people in the former United States will be able to afford one...
24 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/28/2021 3:20:56 PM (No. 677608)
If war breaks out in the Middle East we can go to war with our electric tanks and trucks. Some real electric shock and awful.
I'll be dead and gone by then so I'll never know about it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 1/28/2021 3:21:35 PM (No. 677611)
Where are they going to get all the lithium needed for the batteries?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/28/2021 3:21:45 PM (No. 677612)
Let 'em. The market will decide.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Phantomll 1/28/2021 3:27:03 PM (No. 677618)
Are they going to fit all our military planes with solar panels? This whole "climate crisis" thing is an unbelievable hoax!!
21 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
ho72 1/28/2021 3:28:58 PM (No. 677620)
One of the goals of climate hysteria is control, and one of the things that needs to be controlled is the ability of people to move about freely. For this purpose, limited range electric vehicles would seem to be a good fit. Now, don't be misled. At first there will be a spirited competition to see which manufacturer can deliver the greatest MPC (miles per charge) but eventually these long range vehicles will be restricted and sold only to those who, like your congressman, can demonstrate a need. The rest of us will get some crappy commuter version that might give you 100 MPC or less... and that's only if you can A) demonstrate the need for one and B) afford it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Phantomll 1/28/2021 3:40:59 PM (No. 677631)
Sorry for the second post, but where do these idiots think all the electricity to charge these EVs is going to come from?
20 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Northcross 1/28/2021 3:42:28 PM (No. 677633)
Hey GM. Why wait? If it's such a great idea, do it now.
21 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Sardonic 1/28/2021 3:45:52 PM (No. 677637)
Government Motors Corp can do what it wants. I have no plans in ever purchasing their products.
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And what will power all the chargers? Wind? Solar? HAHAHA! Coal and nat gas (nuclear would work but it isn’t PC)
12 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/28/2021 4:06:45 PM (No. 677656)
Take up golf, folks - - because we're all going to be driving golf carts.
11 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
NancyD 1/28/2021 4:08:00 PM (No. 677659)
So they are going to make the Corvette "electric"? Give me a break. They are just saying this so the Big Bad Biden admin stays away from them... idiots.
6 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 1/28/2021 4:09:10 PM (No. 677660)
They will sure sell a lot fewer vehicles. But I have only owned a couple of GM vehicles, didn't like them much, fell apart too soon.
Bye, GM!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/28/2021 4:15:58 PM (No. 677671)
Too bad we will not have enough electric power, power plants, or fuel for the power plants to power up these electric cars due to Biden Executive orders destroying the fossil fuel industry. Apparently Biden does not think that far ahead.
7 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Muguy 1/28/2021 4:20:45 PM (No. 677680)
Stupid, stupid, stupid
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
john56 1/28/2021 4:27:31 PM (No. 677686)
Several years ago, I heard an expert describe what an electric car filling station would be like. You know, like the convenience store/gas station on the corner. I'm not talking about the onesie/twosies electric car outlets you see that are put up for social responsibility scoring, I'm talking what you'd need to power everyone's electric car quickly and effiecienly.
ANyway, the power grid that you would need for just one station would be nearly enough to power a small town. You'd need power generating facilities nearby to deal with the high demand of quick car charging (you don't plan to sit around for four hours or so while your 2037 Chevrolet Obamabidenmobile charges up, right?). The footprint of such a facility would easily fill a full city block. Forget the corner gas station, here's the entire block charging station.
8 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/28/2021 4:50:16 PM (No. 677709)
GM makes a big assumption. They assume they are going to be a business in 2035.
15 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 1/28/2021 4:57:11 PM (No. 677725)
Oh, no, #8, are you kidding? "The market" is NOT PERMITTED to decide. You CANNOT buy a full sized sedan because the government has mandated that they have a huge extra tax. You cannot buy a car without an extra expensive engine because the government has mandated very high fuel economy requirements, and the vehicle MUST go 100,000 miles without a tuneup and still pass these emission tests.
You CANNOT buy a car without airbags, because the government has decided that it is "better for you".
"The market" has NO SAY WHATSOEVER in what cars we buy. Only the government decides what is sold, and you can pick among the limited ones that they permit. LOTS of models have never been sold in the USA because the government doesn't permit them to be imported. You are not smart enough to know what you want. Only the government knows what you need and WILL have.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 1/28/2021 5:06:42 PM (No. 677738)
This is insane.
A huge economy, 350 million people, vast expanses of territory traversed by busy, hard-working people, the greatest economic engine and bulwark against tyranny, finally taken down by a disgusting old man whose handlers are anti-American revolutionaries.
And you can't get enough to the raw materials, the rare earth materials, which China has been busy seizing from Third World countries, including large areas of Africa, to make enough solar panels. By-products from making batteries are poisonous contaminants.
Awful.
11 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 1/28/2021 5:16:43 PM (No. 677754)
Hopefully, they'll be made of wood and drive on cobblestone highways since plastic and asphalt is made from or uses oil.
5 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/28/2021 6:12:30 PM (No. 677827)
Who cares? By then we'll all be under water, including the Obama seaside villas.
5 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 1/28/2021 6:23:09 PM (No. 677837)
I've never bought a GM product, so whatever floats their boat. They still won't be getting my business.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Californian 1/28/2021 6:59:47 PM (No. 677874)
I'm not into the idea of an electric corvette. Even if it was much faster than mine. Corvette is about more than pure speed. I love the vroom vroom it makes.
As far as charging goes, current charging systems are too slow. Eventually we will have to either invent a new battery tech that charges faster (I've read recently about a 10m charge time from zero to full which is pretty good) or just pull in, swap out batteries and go, but that's not being looked at by anyone seriously right now.
I love my vette but I also enjoy my Tesla model 3. They each have pluses and minuses and the vette wasn't that much more expensive.
There's nothing wrong with EV. It's just a different technology with some costs and benefits vs normal engines.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
lazlototh 1/28/2021 7:07:35 PM (No. 677880)
Response to the headline: No, it doesn't.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/29/2021 6:29:20 AM (No. 678149)
Short GM.
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