General Motors is confident it has a winning agenda to cement its future as a dominant player in the ever-changing automotive industry. Once a year, GM releases its sustainability report to look at how the automaker has affected the industry and to highlight the changes taking place at the company.
This time, it’s all about efficiency and mobility—two hot buzzwords in the industry, no doubt. GM listed a handful of near-term results beginning with a big one: a lower-carbon future.
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV encompasses the beginning of a future less reliant on fossil fuels and GM’s Maven now employs 100 Bolt EVs. Together, they can cover 250,000 all-electric miles per month. Additionally, lightweight materials shaved 3,600 pounds from 10 vehicles throughout GM’s portfolio of vehicles. Less weight equals greater efficiency.
Autonomous vehicles are another important area and GM plans to begin testing of such vehicles in its home state of Michigan this year. In the meantime, GM is working to make important safety features standard in many cars and encourage safer driving practices.
On the environment side, GM reiterated its commitment to being a part of a clean-energy economy. GM used 199.8 megawatts of renewable energy in 2016, surpassing its 125 mw commitment four years early. The company saves $5 million a year from these efforts. Looking ahead, GM has stated its plans to be completely fossil fuel free by 2050.
In one final pillar, GM is working to transform the industry through talent. Every 26 minutes, GM filled an STEM-related position last year. Five percent of new hires were United States veterans as well.
These are highlights from GM itself, but you can read the entire report by following the link here.
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Trump: “Paris climate agreement is baaaaaaaad for business’ bottom lines”
Barra: “GM used 199.8 megawatts of renewable energy in 2016, surpassing its 125 mw commitment four years early. The company saves $5 million a year from these efforts”
Environmental adulthood is bad for the economy and jobs? BULLSHT!
Left-wing Soros troll alert above! Sits all day waiting to troll anything his Communist dictator-type mental complex forces him to…
Please take your meds, see your psychiatrist regularly…Because you are one scary triggered individual.
And GM execs use private jets to meetings, same as eco-boy Elon Musk…Do as I say, not as I do, eh? How many of them ride bikes?
Guess what, if GM stopped producing cars altogether​, it would save A LOT more energy and be better for the planet. It saved a bit of energy after producing VAST amounts every year…Whooeee!
Please show me your scientific evidence to show that measly savings was good for jobs, Old Trombone. Oh, forgot, you only deal in fiery, hateful rhetoric at anyone that doesn’t toe your extreme worldview line…You are the same person who said Trump had a “1.9% chance of winning”…We all know how that turned out.
Fake news…
I never said Trump wouldn’t win. Caught you out generalized-accusing, a major symptom of the Dunning-Kruger effect. After Tony Abbott in Australia, I could see Brextrumpit wasn’t impossible.
Private ExecJets? No problem. I’m an IMSA and Indy 500 fan, no problem. I hate the stupid work-commuters who drive for function on Monday at 7:15am instead of enjoyment on Saturday all day, and then claim they were “enjoying that V8 in that traffic jam”.
Remember when Obama administration officials criticized the CEO’s of GM/Ford/Chrysler for attending their 2008-GFC US Senate questioning in their ExecJets instead of driving to D.C. from Detroit? I supported your side for saying it’s a higher waste of money for them to drive for a day instead of fly for an hour. Same for pollution. I’d rather Scott Dixon and Alex Rossi teach the World about how to win by saving gas because they are the best in the world at that, and all the IMSA/Indy car pollution in a year wouldn’t match the pollution from commuters stuck bumper-t-bumper blocking Police/Fire from getting to the Pentagon at 17:15hours on a Wednesday.
See? I have arguments. Using syllogisms (not the kind of gisms you have, look it up). From Aristotle and Karl Popper. You have: “trombones are too fiery, my snowflake fronds are melty ooooooooohhhhhh…..”
Eco-boy Elon Musk, eh, his very existence is an argument against Trombone sliding, for sure!!!
How about trenchant Musk-critic Bob Lutz, who recently said, in published material, that he rates getting GM to do the Volt was one of his top-3 personal achievements?
Howz THAT for an argument, faux-sackbut?
US$5,000,000 = 100 jobs @ $50,000 each. Every. Single. Year.
That’s 100 middle class folks with a career to buy a house and raise a family. Permanent jobs not single-year contracts.
Or we get shouty and just say “show me the evidence”. The evidence is already there, you’ve already heard 97% of scientists in the field support it. You don’t need 97% of climate scientists AND a Trombone, before you need to accept reality. You’re argument-style completely makes you give me all the authority. See how wrong that is yet?
It’s a comfort to see that GM is still focused on reducing it’s pollution footprint by being more efficient and looking to being completely fossil fuel free by the middle of the century .
Companies as well as consumers can do their part in slowing Global warming . It’s a scientific fact that our planet is getting warmer ( ask any Alaskan ) and everything we can do will only benefit the planet regardless of the Trump Train fanatics ,
I watched that Trump speech in the Rosegarden. Found it very incoherent, and the facial expessions of the speaker told me that he did was uncomfortable with it, that he did not really understand the meaning of what he said.
And I found it scary hearing him say that he loved the coal miners. When a rapacious real estate shark like D. Trump declares his love for some object or person, one should hurry up to get this object of “love” out of harm’s way.
He is actually fooling the coal miners by making them believe, or at least trying to, that lifting restrictions on the greed of their bosses will create more demand for labor power in coal mining. What most of them actually know, is that the glut of cheap gas produced by fracking is making producing electricity by burning coal uneconomical, and wind and solar also. Nobody will invest to build new coal buring power plants. Besides, methinks that coal which was produced by this planet in several millions of years is just to precious to just burn it, it can be used for more important stuff. We have to learn to emulate the plants in turning sun light into directly useable energy.
One of the most important achievements of GM is, in my opinion, the building of a factory to produce fuel cells.
These can serve to drive full electrical cars, and as buffers for the uneven output of solar or wind energy.
I just read this, Observer7. As if Don John Trump hasn’t done enough to damage our standing internationally these last two weeks!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-un-rights-idUSKBN18W173