General Motors CEO Mary Barra Says Company Has Capability To ‘Put Everyone In An EV’
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General Motors is currently in the midst of a large-scale transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to battery-electric vehicles. The automaker sees this change as a necessary transition as consumer’s tastes evolve, but it also sees a shift to EVs as a moral imperative.
In a recent blog post shared on LinkedIn, GM CEO Mary Barra doubled down on the automaker’s commitment to EVs, saying the company has the capability and responsibility to help put every vehicle owner behind the wheel of a battery-powered car, truck, crossover or SUV.
“As an engineer, I’ve always looked at how to improve situations and solve challenges,” Barra said in the blog post. “Engineers have the ability to imagine what’s next and then make it happen. At its very core, engineering improves people’s lives”
“As Chairman and CEO of General Motors, I now have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to use my engineering mindset to help make the world a better place on a much larger scale. At General Motors, we have a vision of zero crashes, zero emissions, zero congestion. It is our north star that guides everything we do.”
A key component in helping GM achieve this goal is its Ultium lithium-ion batteries and Ultium Drive motors. Barra says the Ultium motors and batteries are a “game-changer in driving down costs, increasing range and opening the design potential,” of its EVs. GM is also planning to market its Ultium technology to other automakers and manufacturers, helping these third-party companies adopt greener vehicle technology earlier.
“EVs – and the technology we’re engineering to create them – are key to the growth trajectory at GM,” Barra said. “I believe with all the assets we have, we will win. And we will create a more sustainable world for future generations.”
GM recently invested $2 billion in the GM Spring Hill Assembly plant to build the Cadillac Lyriq electric crossover, which is expected to enter production in late 2022. The automaker recently debuted the new electric GMC Hummer EV pickup, as well, which will be built alongside the electric Cruise Origin robotaxi at its Factory Zero plant (formerly GM Detroit-Hamtramck) in Metro Detroit. The Chevy Bolt remains in production at the GM Lake Orion Assembly plant in Michigan, too, and will soon be joined by the new Chevy Bolt EUV crossover model.
Fan rendering of a Chevrolet Bolt EUV
Barra says the automaker’s “zero-emissions, all-electric future is underway right now,” and says the company is “moving faster than ever,” to achieve its goals of a world with zero emissions, zero crashes and zero congestion.
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Everyone in the country driving in an electric vehicle is a novel idea; but a better question is how to generate the millions of watts of electricity needed to recharge the batteries especially if Joe Biden is elected and the consumption of fossil fuels is banned in 2035 as without the usage of fossil fuels to generate electricity, the only alternatives is nuclear which means needing to build hundreds of nuclear power stations across the country.
Omegatalon
Let’s pretend we live in a world where Covid 19 still exists, and the virus mutates before we get a vaccine. If Donald Trump is elected, how many Americans will be dead in 4 years.
I think it’s definitely unappropriate to blame Trump for virus. I do not take his side, but where is his fault? Did he stop the doctors to heal people or to develop a vaccine? I think we should all stand together in order to internationally punish china for what they did to the world with this virus escaped from their labs
Mihail Nitulescu
Richard Dreyfus quote from movie “Jaws”:
I’m not going to sit here and argue with a man whose lining up to be a hot lunch.
PeterG – you’re not an independent thinker, keep drinking your kook aide. Its 99.97 recoverable, who cares how many get it, its its not a death sentence. The Lame Stream Fake Media announce the “new cases” not how many got it and are back to normal… 99.97%. LIke any disease it affects the “most vulnerable” the most… facts are facts.
The sky isn’t falling and global warming isn’t happening and the oceans aren’t rising… (Barry Soetoro said when he was elected we could tell our kids “Today” the oceans started to roll back”…. seriously…
BTW: Trump is going to smash Quid Pro Jo Jo the Monkey for the Chinese… Oh, and all liberals and “progressives” are cowards, gutless cowards…
The oceans are rising. Its a proven fact.
Then why would anyone build a beachfront house or a bank loan on one, or an insurance company insure one…. why isn’t Venice “totally” and “permanently” underwater… it ain’t.
Fill your glass with water and add ice till it is at the lip… come back in 4 hours and the ice has melted…. but hasn’t spilled… ice and water are the same and fill the same space… enjoy the lies…
Troy….trying to reason with a political troll like yourself is pointless. Please continue with the overly aggressive comments and cliche name calling.
Ice actually takes up more space than the water it took to form it. Since you don’t seem to understand that, I’m going to jump to the assumption that you never passed 8th grade science…which leads me to to the next conclusion, that I shouldn’t be taking advice about global warming, or other science related topics, from you.
obama just bought a beachfront home he must not have talked to biden
I was a Liberal who is starting to change my views to Conservative because I hated all the Liberal Extremists. But reading comments from people like you made me realize I hate Conservative Extremists just as much as Liberal Extremists. You’re no better than those idiots rioting for criminals and assaulting police. You sound like a Nazi.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I HATE TRUMP!!! I HATE TRUMP!!! What are Trump haters gonna do when Biden/Harris win? They’ll have nothing to complain about.
Are you REALLY going to make this about politics?
Right? It’s such a tired trope now.
omegalaton’s great grandfather from 1907 “Everyone in the country riding on a horseless carriage is a novel idea; but a better question is how to produce billions of barrel oil how to pump it to all the cities over the country, how to distribute it to people, there’s no proper roads for this new type of fast vehicles so how to build millions of miles new roads…”
Naysayer people like this think the world created yesterday as it is and shall nobody ever dare to change it or we we all gonna die… They’re so short sided, in their mind, transition to EVs gonna occur in a vacuum and everything else will remain unchanged.
I have a news for you, economy, as in life, doesn’t work like that it’s fluid and adapt very fast. If you make gas cars, oil production rises hundredfold and gas stations pop up at every street corner then government responds and build highways… And if transition to EVs happening you see those oil companies are not gonna stand by and left the money on the table, you will see them transitioning to green energy too, in the twinkling of an eye they will start building off-shore wind farms and solar energy plants and moreover invest in fusion technology along other companies , it will be new gold rush. And the by product of all this transitioning is jobs, a lot of jobs… Static economies can’t create growth, you need dynamism, innovation and new technologies, how many new jobs coal industry creates versus internet business? American supremacy of twentieth century created on this. The US ruled the world with its unrivaled innovation and new tech; transistors, nuclear energy, laser, electronic, computer and telecommunication technologies…
Now some alleged patriotic petrolheads want GM and the US stuck with outdated tech and pass the leader of the world title to china and bankrupting GM for good because they’re bunch man-childs who want their cars make some noise and smoke. Vroom vroom…
Ken Y …..nails it. Exactly true.
Dream on…
If General Motors is going to force V’s on us at the cost they want then they’ll probably lose a lot of money so I’m selling my stock and I use their back I’m taking my money out because I’m pretty sure that this is not going to fly. Just because old Joe says it is doesn’t mean it’s so.
GM’s PR machine is working overtime these days….
Investor talk and to keep heat off their money making trucks, eventually they’ll transition.
Good luck, at 100k a pop, you won’t sell many Mary!
The HUMMER EV is already Sold Out, unfortunately, our Anual Income bracket wasn’t able to help make that happen.
With your logic there should be no luxury goods in any kind. Because every person can’t afford one. So you want them to sell 1000 hp vehicle with all the revolutionary techs and good for dirt cheap because people like you should have right to buy one. It doesn’t matter it make GM bankrupt.
Why people like you drooling over german brand names that make ridiculously overpriced meh cars and you never demand them to cut the prices on the other hand when American car makers come out with the best cars you start beaching about prices. If a European car maker had made this truck they certainly would priced it at 500K and you would have sung praises this great vehicle while never mentioning the price tag.
Exactly, you said it perfectly. When Germans or Japanese release an overpriced average car, people will drool all over it and hype it up. But when the Americans make a very competitive car at a much lower cost, people will criticize every little damn things.
For example: Honda makes a Civic Type R 0-60 in 5.5-5.1s and costs $50k CAD new. Toyota or BMW makes a Supra 2.0T that does 0-60 in 5.0s and costs $60k CAD. And EVERYONE is drooling over them. But when the Americans make a 2.0T Camaro that does 0-60 in 5.4s that costs $30k CAD or an Ecoboost Mustang that does 0-60 in 5.1s and costs $32k CAD, all of a sudden people start talking about how it’s not good enough.
Mary has a bridge to nowhere to sell us that nobody is asking for. Nobody is buying her green fantasies.
PLEASE, show us Electric Camaro :((( I want to see the 7th gen Camaro so badly!!!! PLEASE GM!!!!!!
The next article on GM Authority indicates interest in EV and Autonomous interest is declining in U.S.. Mary is full speed ahead in New tech and no market for for it. At ridiculous prices no less.
She is not wrong. Eventually we will all be driving ev. The question is how soon, based on price and availability.
You may. I will not. Speak for yourself, not for the rest of us.
Tell them what you think they want to hear Mary……
Like she has put everyone in a current GM car or truck?????
moral imperative.
responsibility to help put every vehicle owner behind the wheel of a battery-powered car, truck, crossover or SUV.
to use my engineering mindset to help make the world a better place.
Modern snake oil salesman PC speak!
More like EVs are easier to produce due to less pieces. Ultimately battery manufacturing and electric production is as bad for the environment as oil.
The Bolt SUV looks like a Buick Encore so my guess is that the plan is for sale in China as some a member of the Encore family?
And the headline right above this story says a new JD Power study says folks aren’t interested in autonomous vehicles and EVs. Not sure how this works out for GM. Seems like they’ve gone all-in on something that isn’t wanted.
They GM that is is not going to produce that many and they’re keeping that plant open that they were going to move just to keep the union happy. That way they can lose so much on that plant and keep the unions from work stoppage which will cost them twice that amount so it’s the cheaper way out.
When I see the range and price of new Hummer EV, I doubt about this claim… Tesla is too ahead!
A road to nowhere is correct.
The US is now no longer dependent on the rest of the world for OIL. The US is now a exporter of oil and the top oil producing nation. The US now has oil/gas reserves that could last 100 years or more. DOES GM miss management know this? Or are they stuck in the past myth that the US only has 5% of the worlds oil supply like many no nothings have said for decades…..
Oh well, I suppose all this oil/gas will be burned to make the electricity for the MUCH more Expensive EV’s……..
This is a technology GM seems to have mastered so therefore wants to exploit. Selling to third parties such as Honda and JLR would be a cash cow.
EV and AV make GM a technology company with stale, unimaginable brands aside from GMC with Hummer. Next GM must take Cadillac or Buick US electric. Better option is to buy Lucid. Lucid will sell better.
The problem is GM does nothing well, better, or right, or are leading any classes “NOW”… what makes them think we’re all going to B-LIne for GM EV’s… the only way that will happen is in blue states where politicians take away choices for the citizens by banning products “they” don’t like… that’s not freedom and that’s not America…. GM should go all EV, they’ll be out of business in 10 yrs… probably anyhow…
Yes, it is so green and responsible using child labor to mine rare earth metals for battery production. 70% of the world’s supply of cobalt comes from the Congo. A growing proportion is coming from an estimated 150,000 informal miners who dig by hand. The digging pits themselves are ecological nightmare. None of the high-minded, “responsible”, EV proponents dare to mention how the rare earth metals are sourced as long as their agenda is realized,
If you’re that concerned about unethical labor practices you should also stop buying all of the following things:
Anything from a dollar store, any cheap clothing brand in the mall that’s not from a designer brand, any athletic shoe company such as Nike or Adidas, anything from Walmart, Joe Fresh and other discount brands.
I bet you 99% of your closet was made from unethical labour practices.
The Onion has given Mary Barra the award for Person of the Century. The Vatican has awarded her the Cross for Moral Imperative.
No one ever talks about that tidbit….
From here in Oz, I see GM cutting back on giving the Market what they want and Mary pushing the Market to what She wants. Uninspiring Products being offered and putting ALL YOUR EV EGGS IN THE ONE BASKET. Given that the story previously in this post indicates the Market isnt too interested in Electrification. Be CAREFULL GM.
Bulls Eye… !
where is all the electric power going to come from to charge all these EVs ?? it is not about having enough oil it is all about global warming and GM is afraid they will be a target of the protest and boycotts without going EVs