GM Electric Vehicles Chief Pam Fletcher Made ‘Vice President Of Innovation’
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General Motors has named its electric vehicles boss, Pam Fletcher, to the newly-created role of “Vice President of Innovation”, effective October 1st. In that role, Fletcher, 52, will report directly to CEO Mary Barra, and will work on “identifying, integrating and accelerating business opportunities that make [GM’s] customers’ lives easier and drive long-term value to [GM] shareholders,” according to an internal memo obtained by Automotive News. Currently, Fletcher serves as GM’s VP of Global Electric Vehicle Programs, reporting to Doug Parks, VP of Autonomous and Electric Vehicle Programs.
Parks, 57, will see his role expand to absorb Fletcher’s duties overseeing GM electric vehicles as she takes on her new role.
Pam Fletcher was made head of GM electric vehicles nearly a year ago, and quickly garnered the 2017 Henry Ford II Distinguished Award for Excellence in Automotive Engineering from the Society of Automotive Engineers. She led the team behind the Chevrolet Bolt EV – GM’s first long-range BEV for volume production – and played a key role in hammering out future GM electric vehicle plans, which will see the automaker put 20 new battery-electric vehicles on the road by 2023.
Along with overseeing various GM electric vehicles, Fletcher also played a key part in developing GM’s Super Cruise semi-autonomous driving system, which premiered on the 2018 Cadillac CT6 ahead of tricking out to additional vehicle models.
Meanwhile, General Motors has created another new role – Vice President of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure – that will be filled by GM’s Vice President of Global Strategy, Michael Ableson. In his new role, in which he’ll work to develop “the partnerships, incentives and investments” needed to expand the automaker’s EV charging infrastructure, Ableson will report to Parks, while his old Global Strategy team reports to Fletcher.
The newly-created role shows GM’s commitment to removing one of the major hurdles facing wider EV adoption: the poor availability of adequate charging stations. Both battery capacity and recharge times have taken impressive strides over the past several years, removing much of the inconvenience of EV ownership, but much of the country is still underserved with regard to easy access to expedient charging sources.
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” recharge times have taken impressive strides over the past several years” Bolt EV has been out three years and its charging speeds have not increased…The Volt has been out since 2010 and has never had DCFC…
“Look! It is a woman (shouldn’t it be “womyn”, oh forward thinking ones?) and she is super duper amazing. She is a woman, didn’t you know? Female…Not male. Female! Look she is sooo good. She got promoted to — Insert super long title here to make her feel proud and important — We at GMA must assist, because God forbid they can’t stand on their own two feet as “equal” business people.
Ahh, identity politics and patronizing behavior of a few ideologically obsessed beta males. Thank God the world is changing….
P.S. She is kind of a hot blondie to boot… 🙂