GM Aims For Zero Tailpipe Emissions By 2035, Carbon Neutrality By 2040
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General Motors has announced plans to eliminate tailpipe emissions from its new light-duty vehicles by 2035 and become fully carbon neutral by 2040.
GM plans to eliminate tailpipe emissions from its light-duty vehicles by slowly adding more and more battery-electric vehicles to its lineup. The automaker will offer 30 all-electric models globally by mid-decade and 40 percent of the company’s U.S. models will be battery-electric by the end of 2025. Going forward, more than half of GM’s capital spending and product development will be devoted to electric and electric-autonomous vehicle programs, with the automaker outlining a clear directive to eventually offer an EV “for every customer, from crossovers and SUVs to trucks and sedans.”
While EVs do not emit tailpipe emissions, they are not as eco friendly if they are not charged with electricity that was generated in an eco-friendly way. To address this, GM will work with EVGo to triple the size of the company’s public fast-charging network (which is already the nation’s largest) by adding more than 2,700 new fast chargers by the end of 2025. All of these fast-charging stations will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy.
As for becoming fully carbon neutral by 2040, the automaker will source 100 percent renewable energy to power all of its US.. facilities by 2030, while its global sites will achieve this goal by 2035. This is a five-year acceleration from its previously outlined goal of converting its global facilities to renewables by 2040. For any remaining carbon that it may be spewing into the atmosphere from its day-to-day operations, GM says it “expects to invest in carbon credits or offsets,” and will “assess credit and offset solutions in the coming years as the most efficient, equitable and inclusive ideas mature.”
“General Motors is joining governments and companies around the globe working to establish a safer, greener and better world,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in a statement. “We encourage others to follow suit and make a significant impact on our industry and on the economy as a whole.”
In addition to its tailpipe emissions elimination commitment, GM signed the Business Ambition Pledge for 1.5⁰C, a coalition of UN agencies and companies dedicated to achieving a carbon net-zero economy. Other auto industry companies that have joined this eco-friendly UN coalition include Continental, Mahindra, Volkswagen, Ford, Bosch and Delphi.
GM’s announcement comes just days after president Joe Biden pledged to replace the entire U.S. federal vehicle fleet with American-made EVs, a move that could cost upwards of $20 billion.
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Show us the cars already! I can’t afford a Hummer and the Bolt is too dowdy.
We all need to keep in mind this time line is going to be flexible. GM is not going to kill the ICE till it is economically safe to do so.
Also 20 years is a long time. Just look at the cars from 2000 and today and how much they have changed. The curve is only going to get greater.
Look for GM to make both ICE and EV and if and when the ICE models drop in volume they will be removed. If they are making money they will remain.
so market conditions are going to dictate what happens. duh.
Guy named Steve walks into a bar. Orders a 15.
Bartender says: what’s a 15?
Steve says 7 and 7 duh.
i like jokes. please more but try to make them a bit funnier. that was funny for a seven year old but you are probably a bit older than that.
Steve
Did you here the one about the gay guy and the Prius. Of course not gay guys have better taste then that.
I hope so man… I don’t want to be forced to buy an EV. I want to do it only if the benefits outweigh those of an ICE car. Let it be our choice as consumers. Sure make majority of the cars EV. I’m sure the Malibu and Cruise drivers don’t care. But those who are Corvette and Camaro fans, let us have our ICE even if it’s a downsized turbo engine.
You can also look at it this way about 1/4 to 1/3 of everyone here will be dead before everything is electric.
May be half if they remain popular.
Not to be gross but you are talking 20 to 30 years realistically. Even then the EV cars will be interesting in their own ways too.
Good luck with that. And chasing away a lot of their base of customers.
By then a lot of their customers will be from the younger more tech oriented crowd. it all evens out.
The government will make gasoline prices high enough to force buyers to subsidized EV like it or not.
Everyone points out that the generation source of electricity for EVs *maybe* isn’t clean. That’s the US. Look outside of that and your close neighbor Canada produces 80% of the nations energy by clean means (im including nuclear in that), with more and more solar/wind/hydro added year over year. 18% of Canada’s power generation was petroleum based and/or coal in 2018 (info I could find shows that around 12% for 2020), conversely the US energy production sources were 63% petroleum and coal in 2020, 2021 projections show only a 1% share change.
There are Euro countries like Denmark that are 100% re-newable. Germany saw 60% from non-renewable in 2018, down to 40% in 2019, 30% in 2020.
The US needs to start moving on renewables, and also needs to work on a nation supergrid and not a politicized state-by-state fragmented grid.
Renewable energy is great and all, but what is the environmental impact of the production of solar panels? What about when they are 30 years old and over their “useable life”? What happens after 40 years when the wind turbines get old and rusty? What happens when the wind stops blowing?
Not to mention, the US’s electric grid is decades away from being bale to support all of these EV’s. Even if they are produced and charged by means of clean energy, what about the lines, transformers and existing electric services that actually carry the electricity? All of that has to be upgraded as well, and its all very expensive! where’s this money coming from?
https:// insideevs .com/news/436665/24-million-evs-limit-current-power-grid/
and
https:// www. greenmatch .co.uk/blog/2017/10/the-opportunities-of-solar-panel-recycling
Much of you skepticism is based on very outdated information, or false information that became popularized by global warming and environmental nay sayers.
Conversely, what happens to the earth when mining, fracking, strip. Tailings get dumped into lakes turning them into giant pools of acid. You’re flagging the recycling of solar panels but forgetting what oil spills do lol. Gotta shake your head
What do you mean when the wind stops blowing? Like when the earth stops rotating on it’s axis? Answer: we’re all dead
Here’s the thing with the US electrical grid, as I said it’s political, and because of this the grid is complete crap. Politicians serve too short of a term to net proper long term results. US infrastructure as a whole needs serious focus. The grid wouldn’t be decades away from update if focus was given to a super grid. It’s amazing what can be done when funds get allocated to improving a country’s infrastructure. Not too mention huge skilled job creation.
EV are rolling out, we’re seeing serious the start of a serious trend change, it’s not just Tesla and a few minor models from the big conventional automakers anymore.
As EVs roll out, so should a grid overhaul.
At the end of the day the thing is, you can believe what you want, but there are facts that prove your beliefs wrong. I forget the term, but there is one, for people who refuse to believe science, facts, experience, and experts for the sole irrational reason that the information is outside their comprehension no matter how it is presented. Psychologically I believe it’s a defense mechanism.
What happens when the coal plants expire. Everything expires. There are solutions to what happens to the solar panels and wind turbines
Yea good point. If these 100% renewable energy fast chargers were ready, then it would make sense. But if people are manufacturing batteries (which is very harmful) then using fossil fuel made electricity to power the batteries, it completely defeats the purpose of an EV, and you might as well just burn the fuel in the engine and save the pollution from manufacturing batteries. I personally don’t think nuclear is a renewable source because nuclear waste has thousands of years of decay before it isn’t radioactive anymore. If humans in the future develop a sustainable nuclear FUSION technology then that would be a different story. But nuclear fission isn’t clean in my opinion.
There are reactors that run on different fuels that last much longer and produce less waste.
Thorium reactors are one of the best.
There are also projects that produce micro reactors that have no ability to over heat/melt down and still produce a lot of energy with little waste.
How can they claim “All of these fast-charging stations will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy.”? Don’t they have to rely on whatever electricity is available in the location where they want to put the charging stations? And with the way the nations electrical grid is laid out do you really know if your power is coming from coal, hydro, nuclear?
they can purchase the power via local solar or wind farms, and as long as that purchased power equals the amount used by the charging stations it becomes carbon neutral.
Also many charging stations can be powered by their own local batteries or solar tents over the charging lots.
Yea exactly the electricity’s source is dependent on the geographical location. Places like Colorado almost all of their electricity comes from fossil fuel.
Political grandstanding by GM, oops sorry “gm”. I bet the tune would be a lot different if Trump were still president or when a Republican takes over in 2024.
This is knee jerk by GM. Biden is working on 4 years only faster then Trump. All this extreme “my way or the highway ” politics gotta end. The right-wingers wants you to work for $5 per day and the left wants all men in a dresses👗.
@guest
LMAO 😂 funny but true.
yep, disgusting, i personally cannot wait until 2022 when the gop takes back the house and senate, 1994, 2010 & 2014 were just the start.
Putting on a science hat is the way for real carbon neutrality is look for energy storage that doesn’t require Rare Earths material and micro-nuke power. Petroleum will always be a part of modern society as long as you have medicine, industry that requires ICEs,plastic base material around.
Gasoline is very less “eco friendly” since its production is very “dirty” and when burned, leaves contaminants in the engine, oil, exhaust, and the environment. And for all you gas lovers, you need electricity to pump and store gasoline since it doesn’t fall from the sky. Yet electrical enery does fall freely from the sky! And the best part is that every home gets electricity at any outlet so it is “piped” in. Do you get energy that easily from gasoline?
How am I going to enjoy driving my vintage 81 Camaro Z28 if they don’t produce gasoline anymore? I am optimistic about ev vehicles but I love the old school V8 and the beautiful music it makes while it’s working. 😔
Looks like general motors will be on my boycott list soon thanks to that despicable CEO who makes roger smith look like a saint.
Oh boy… what a dark future ahead of us. People are going to be driving electric lawn mowers in the future 😭
Let the electric fan boys have their EVs and let us car enthusiasts keep our ICE.
Gas banger ❤️
Dream On! It will never happen. We won’t have a power grid to support that many EV’s by then.
I know that’s right, it’s gonna be pathetic.
It’s all about stock prices, bonuses and retirement packages for executives.
When the market moves to electric, China will be the big winner because with the Chevrolet Bolt being the most affordable GM EV at almost $40K; China will begin importing EVs with more affordable pricetags.
Illogical. Most comments supporting EVs as a total replacement of ICE are plain group thinkers and have no logic. The number of vehicles that need to be replace by EVs is huge, 280+ million in the US alone. The batteries are made of “rare” earth elements. Did you read that? “RARE”. That means in low abundance. Never mind the electric grid load when that happens. And anyone who says it’s cheaper than ICE fuel cost wise, well, that is until the government needs it’s tax revenue it lost from the ICE fuel burning vehicles. But, let not your heart be troubled, that tax will include your household usage as well. Oh, and let’s not consider the re-charge time and inconvenience. Good luck going anywhere farther than 300 or 400 miles in a timely manner. Yeah, it will all work out though you’ll say, innovation, that will solve all the problems. Hey, I have one for you, how about just figure out how to make ICE produce lower to no emissions, let’s spend time and money on that. Well, that’s not sexy enough and doesn’t align with the “green” brainwash group think mentality.
After owning a Volt and driving mostly in electric mode, I’m happy with this decision. I think this will be an exciting time.
Just poking fun…. does anyone remember in 2017 when GM said it would be releasing 20 new EVs by 2023 and that 2 of them would be in showrooms in 18 months? It seems 18 months has long passed and 4 years later they have a CGI Cadillac and a Hummer they can’t drive. Does anyone believe GM? or will we be looking back at GM like we look back at Kodak. I loved by Bolt EV… lots of folks loved their EV1’s… but GM seems to lack the resolve to /want/ to make such cars. They tease us and we know they have the industrial might to do it… they seem to lack the will and commitment.
Meanwhile team “T” continues plugging away releasing new models that continue to eat into legacy auto markets.