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.
Bolt is UGLY. Concept was beautiful though.
Anyways, my Spark EV lease was over in 2018 and I wanted another awesome EV so I got the UGLY Bolt.
Glad I have the ugly Bolt and not a beautiful gas banger.
I wouldn’t mind owning an EV if it served the same purpose as a Corolla. But I don’t want an EV sports car. If I could only own one car I’d rather have an ICE sports coupe. If I could own 2 cars I wouldn’t mind a gas sports coupe and an electric Corolla or something along those lines.
Electric is faster than gas. Why would you want a slower sports car?
ELECTRIC IS NOT FASTER THAN GAS. Compare any electric vehicle to a gas vehicle OF THE SAME MSRP PRICE, then lets see which car is faster. Also gas cars have the same performance numbers at all times. EVs lose power when battery gets low. A Tesla Model 3 takes 5.5s 0-60 and a Tesla 3 costs $70,000. A Camaro 2.0L Turbo does 0-60 in 5.4s and costs $30,000. What are you even talking about?? If money isn’t an issue then I’ll just compare a Bugatti Veyron.
*looks at Tesla website*
Model 3 prices:
Standard Range Plus: 33,690
Long Range: 42,690
Performance: 50,690
Also checked the 0-60 times for 2021 Standard Range + and found it’s 5.30 seconds.
Ok fine I might’ve did a little exaggerating. But still $34k USD is like $43k CAD, still costs $13,000 more than a 2.0T Camaro that does it in 5.4s automatic and 5.1s manual. The Tesla 3 performance model costs about $70-80k CAD which is now in the Corvette territory. And I’d be willing to bet my last dollar that a Tesla 3 performance can’t beat a Corvette in a straight line or the track.
Corvette? THAT joke of a car? No. It can NOT beat a Tesla. Only a Hellcat can. And that’s made by Chrysler. And not for long, the refreshed Teslas are finally going to regain the crown.
I just looked this up. Facts only, opinions aside.
Tesla Model 3 High Performance
$75,000 CAD
0-60 3.3s
4072 lbs
C8 Corvette Stingray base trim
$68,000 CAD
0-60 2.8s
3647 lbs
The Vette is lighter, faster, and costs less.
I’ll say this again: Gas cars are faster than electric cars, dollar for dollar. Because if money was not an issue, I could just bring up a $3Million Bugatti.
Model S plaid smokes Vettes and spits them out. I notice you didn’t include that.
Either way, Tesla has 4 seats and 4 doors and 4 wheel drive. Corvette does not.
Teslas can race up a snowy mountain road. Vettes can only spin their tires and get flat bedded back home.
Tesla roadster will smoke them all.
But if all you want is cheap speed, buy a Vette.
Hellcats are overrated. They’re only fast in a straight line. I prefer cars that have good handling, that you can throw into corners. Which is why I love Corvettes and any of the 6th gen Camaros.
Hellcats also have 4 roomy seats and a nicer interior.
@nunya bidniz
Dude what are you even talking about?? If you put snow tires on a Corvette, it will have no issues getting traction in the snow. I daily drive a Camaro as my only car in the Canadian winters, with a set of Blizzak Bridgestone tires, I don’t have any traction problems.
Also what are you buying a sports car for? Roomy seats and fancy interior?? Or do you buy a sports car for performance?? Because when I’m trying to drive sports car, I’m driving the car alone, no passengers to reduce weight. And I don’t care about luxuries that add weight, because I’m trying to increase performance numbers.
Or what if it’s a track day weekend? And you wanna take your car to the track and set a faster lap time? Do you really care about passengers and interior space?? Because I don’t. I can buy a Toyota Camry to carry passengers. And I’ll use my 2 door coupe as my sports car.
Buy what you want. Most people don’t want to buy 2 cars when a Challenger or Tesla will do.
Oh and also, Hellcats brand new sell for around $100k CAD. That’s $30k more than a Corvette. No thanks, I would much rather have a Corvette ANYDAY.
Very good. You’ll save $30k but spend another $40k buying a 4 seater the Hellcat or Tesla already had.
And also I just did a little googling myself. The Tesla 3 base model does 0-60 in 5.6s. That’s still slower than the cheapest Camaro that costs at least $10,000 less.
You mean the cheapest Model 3 that wasn’t offered on their website and you had to actually call Tesla to special order? Oh and I don’t think they even offer that car any more.
You’ve obviously never driven an EV if you think gas is faster LOL
Gas cars are faster than electric cars, dollar for dollar. If we both had $50,000 to spend on a car, you pick EV and I pick ICE, I bet you I can get a faster car than you for the same money.
Yeah, and you pay more long term for gas, maintenance, repairs. No thanks.
I’d rather pay more and get a better car with smooth silent rocket power from a maintenance free electric motor for 50 cents a gallon.
Way to thread the needle. EVs will throw you back in the seat.. they are the “if you can grab that $100 bill off the dash before I hit 60 you can have it ” cars. Since gas doesnt win on performance you have to contrive this gas + price metric to offset gas’ performance. I drove a Bolt and simply could not believe it…. this PoS econobox ugly ducking is quick! And to think GM has a sticker price of $38k on them when I can get a base model TM3 for the same price with more comfortable seats and base level autopilot (aka adaptive cruise and lane keeping).
Look at the thumbs down you got! LOL these gas fanboys cannot accept reality. Most of them are dealers who make ZERO on EVs because they don’t need maintenance!
The rest are stuck in tradition and threatened by change.
Ok.
So a base AWD Tesla Model 3 is $46,990. That does 0-60 in 4.2
You can then download the Performance Software for2K right on your Tesla Phone App. That would take the Price to $48,990. And the zero to sixty in 3.7 seconds.
Not exactly sure how many other Sub 50K Four Door cars do that
Oh and for $54,990 you can get a base Performance Model….that is 3.1 Seconds
The Bolt isn’t ugly. The Spark is though.
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.
Is that what Mike Pence drives to the rest stop?
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.
I don’t want to be forced to have a gas banger.
Who’s forcing you to drive a gasser?
Who’s forcing you to drive electric?
No one, yet. Why do you ask? I never made the claim. But I won’t deny that world governments are making that push, as dozens of countries have announced that ICE is soon to be banned, like the UK, France, Spain, Canada, etc. Only an idiot would deny that,].
So who’s forcing you to drive ICE, again?
Until 2000, all of us were forced to drive ICE.
There will always be gas cars, even with “mandates”. All that will happen is automakers will use any surplus EV sales ahead of targets to offset the gas car sales.
Just like dealers use EV sales to get higher allocations of pure profit guzzlers for people who don’t realize their $60k Suburban is just a stretched $18k loss leader pickup with a little more metal, glass and plastic, things that don’t proportionally add that much cost.
You’ll be fine. Biden’s not going to put you on his Saint Andrew’s cross. Mike Pence probably enjoyed getting on it though.
Key phrase being “until 2000.” Last I checked, it’s after 2000 now, so no one is forcing you to buy an ICE vehicle.
And I know there will always be gas cars, which is good. But there won’t always be NEW gas cars. For now, the EV sales (assuming they take off) will offset gas sales, but the day likely will come where new ICE sales will be banned in America. As they have in many other prominent countries.
I’m sure there will be loopholes, like for commercial fleets, etc., but the anecdotal doesn’t define the broader reality.
And no need to bring President Biden or Vice President Pence into this. I said nothing political, so why you would isn’t exactly obvious. that’s usually the hallmark of derailing good discussion into nastiness and chaos, especially involving you and your recent track record here.
If Trump wasn’t thrown out of office, we would go right back to the “good old days” of gas only.
The only reason I said 2000 is because that was the year the state of California scared everybody into making the Prius, RAV4 ev, Saturn EV1, etc.
CA backed off at the last minute, but those cars were sold, people modded their Priuses into PHEVs with 40 mile batteries and THAT scared GM and Nissan into creating the Volt and Leaf.
Tesla Roadsters were not an industry response from industry people. The evolution into a lux sedan happened not because of any automaker pressure or state laws.
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.
Exactly! All these shrieking Qanon Karens crying into their pampers like it’s happening tomorrow!
“they’re gonna take my guns and gas away!!!” LOL
Ooh…that 18 to 1 downvote ratio…ouch.
Yeah, those dislikes sure invalidate my facts LOL
Popularity contest! I’m SOOO hurt! 🙂
I gave you a thumbs up. Must mean I agree with you!
And I’m sure those 18 downvotes were all from GMA readers crying into their adult diapers, Mr. Facts.
I can’t believe the Karens on this site crying and screaming that GM is going to “take their gas cars away” and “kill ICE”. Don’t they understand corporate whitewashing and rhetoric? It’s like they also believed Trump was going to MAGA just because he “said” he would. Repeal and replace – with what? nothing.
ICE isn’t going away at ALL. GM has no interest in selling EVs and replacing pure profit guzzlers. They have such a conflicted inner political problem, half the decisions are designed to short sell and sabotage the efforts to make EVs work while the other half struggles to get budgets approved for proper execution.
Bean counters win either way. If EVs fail to sell, they get to do a full price write down on the entire fiasco and use that to offset the profits from the guzzlers.
Don’t people UNDERSTAND what GM is really about inside?
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 base is dying from antivax & covid hoax denial.
You damn right, f*** vaccinations, it kills people, i refused to take one after the side effects.
The government will make gasoline prices high enough to force buyers to subsidized EV like it or not.
The government doesn’t make gas prices go up, the market does.
Anyway, keep screaming like a Karen about high gas prices while everybody else pays 50 cents a gallon for electricity.
The Government subsidizes petrol plants and makes it cheaper to produce. They also have a thing called “gas tax” by reducing subsidies and increasing tax the gas price goes up.
True, the military cost for the middle east is a direct subsidy to the oil industry. And oil gets massive tax incentives regulated utilities don’t get.
The gas tax should be variable so the price we pay at the pump per gallon never drops below $3 per gallon. That way people aren’t fooled into buying guzzlers when gas is temporarily $2 a gallon and scream bloody murder when it’s $4.
Raising the gas tax to cover the cost of roads would also stop raiding the general fund to make up the other 60% the tax doesn’t cover.
Wait til big government figures out how to charge the EVs owners road tax. Less income already because of shutdown and better mileage. Just give it time. They will come up with a charge to get the funds. Maybe when you register plates every year the price will be hundreds of dollars?
The tax will be based on miles traveled and weight of the car. For example it takes a few thousand Bolts to cause the same pavement damage as a tractor trailer rig.
Roads don’t pave themselves. If you don’t like gas “taxes” should all roads be privatized instead? Pay a toll when you leave your driveway?
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
What about outdated and debunked right wing talking points?
30 years is just the warranty. Many ARCO panels from the 1970s are still producing power.
How long does a shingle roof last?
Solar and wind are the cheapest sources and can be stored in mobile (EV) and stationary batteries to be released during expensive afternoon peaks.
Storage is cheaper than generation and includes batteries, pumped hydro, ice for air con, regen weight sleds, etc.
Take a look what California is doing. Click my name.
California is a lost cause state of debt, wouldn’t mind if they secceeded and join the EU.
Without California’s tax contributions, how would red states pay for their own welfare?
Roads don’t pave themselves.
California is losing business, about to lose it’s governor,lost revenue, high homeless population, high on drugs population. We don’t want to hear from a bunch of high west coast losers.
The south and midwest are ruined by opiates. California should send it’s homeless back the red states they came from.
How’s Rush Limbaugh’s addiction? Any more relapses since Trump was thrown out of office?
But yet Tardfornia residents keep moving to those states because so called “high IQs” ruined the state’s budget, schools and businesses communities. BTW I’m on the east coast, can’t seem to get rid of whiny Cali wimps complaining about cold winters.
Cut your nose off to spite your face in that cold weather all you want 🙂
I left that nonsense years ago.
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.
You’re wrong and in total denial. 1 smokestack is cleaner than 10,000 tailpipes. Manufacturing pollution payback of an EV battery is only 2 years.
But keep repeating those debunked talking points if they make you feel better!
If nuke waste was renewable, why don’t they want them?
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.
Absolutely untrue. Colorado has a lot of renewables.
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.
I threw Trump out of office with my mail in ballot for rolling back Obama’s 54 MPG rule so EVs would die.
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.
What’s wrong with all men being forced to wear dresses? Ever heard of lifting your leg to pee?
Right wingers want people to have the right to bid to work for $1 an hour if people don’t need $5 an hour! LOL
@nunya bidniz
Btw raising the minimum wage does nothing to improving people’s quality of life. When minimum wage goes up, the price of living goes up. If minimum wage was $1, the dollar would be worth way more than it is now. Raising the minimum wage is the same thing as causing inflation in the dollar. Just because government raised minimum wage doesn’t mean that you can buy more with that dollar.
I Know and it’s making the rich even richer and the poor even poorer.
LOL Ask Moscow Mitch to eliminate the minimum wage or make it $1
You can play Lucy all you want as much as I want to be James Bond, don’t bring that $hit around me. The market can pay a fair wage but minimal wage is just that, minimal pay, it’s not to live on so you increase your skillset.
yep, disgusting, i personally cannot wait until 2022 when the gop takes back the house and senate, 1994, 2010 & 2014 were just the start.
How’s Trump going to win in 24 when he’s in jail or escapes to a foreign country to avoid justice?
stfu you libturd moron.
Afi K. James
I know why the caged bird sings
Twitter canceled his account, and he can no longer tweet
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.
Electric is going to kill gas 🙂
Dude, respectfully, you need to get off this website for a while and get another hobby. Your comments are littering the entire section top to bottom, picking political fights along the way. EVERY comment you disagree with, you feel the need to respond to, every single one. You’ve said your piece numerous times, now go get some dinner or hit the gym.
Me? leave? With this many fish in a barrel? LOL
Is that how you choose to justify your unhinged ranting? Nice to come here the next day and see you’ve managed to triple your comments, I guess that’s confirmation that you didn’t take my advice. Oh well.
I love trolling Qanon Karens who think Biden’s going to take their gas cars away, the grid will blackout, electricity is dirtier than gasoline, etc. LOL
I can’t believe the amount of commonly held misinformation beliefs on this forum!
Yeah, you’re really enlightening the world, bud. Changing hearts and minds and doing the Lord’s work. Congrats.
If you ever decide to take a break from your day job (I believe the professional title is “keyboard warrior”), you should try getting a real job making actual money, since a hobby seems out of the question. Might as well use your time to actually accomplish something.
Was hoping all my comments would get me a job as GMs EV spokesperson.
He can’t help it, he’s on a mission, meh social justice compels him
Social justice? 50 cents per gallon with no noise!
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?
Please don’t use facts. Facts don’t care about gas fanboy feelings. 🙂
Just as logic and common sense seemed to have escaped the left as our new president just destroyed thousands of jobs killing off the Keystone pipeline that would have move fuel safely from Canada to other places instead of the traditional way using trains and vehicles that pollute! But keep drinking that Kool-aid!
The left also doesn’t realize (or maybe they do?) that in the absence of a pipe line, that oil -will- move… it will move by rail. Trains are much more likely to derail than pipe lines are to leak. Shutting down that pipeline when the world is not prepared for not having oil is just looking for a disaster.
believe me, this is gonna be really bad news for the american people, trains do derail and not only it will cause the oil to spill, but it will cause a huge explosion, biden is a big time joke now.
LOL Muricans think Keystone was going to provide Walmart families in middle America with “jobs” and “lower gas prices” and “domestic fuel”? OMG
The oil was going to be exported! It was only going to benefit CANADIAN drillers! Once it comes out of the pipe in Louisiana it’s going on tankers to export markets!
Keystone oil was never intended for Americans to use in our vehicles!
Now Canada is going to either stop their destructive, dirty tar sands mining or build a leaky pipeline on their own land!
Silly Muricans! So easily fooled by the oil lobby!
“Walmart families?” Wow, you are really losing here, dude. Stay classy.
Jerry Springer families? Palin families? McDonalds families? Olive Garden date night families? Nascar families? Budweiser Burp families? KFC families? Cholesterol Medication Names I Can’t Remember families? Stolen Election families? Covid hoax families?
What pronouns SHOULD I use for Muricans who think Keystone oil was going to go in their tank?
Good luck with your issues, bud. I almost feel sorry for ya, but I don’t. The arrogant always suffer the punishments they inflict on themselves. Get better soon.
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. 😔
There will always be gasoline for classic cars because there will always be other uses for petroleum and it’s byproducts – plastic, medicine, carpet, wax, clothing fibers, etc.
Looks like general motors will be on my boycott list soon thanks to that despicable CEO who makes roger smith look like a saint.
Wring out your pampers and dry em out when you’re done crying 🙂
Oh boy… what a dark future ahead of us. People are going to be driving electric lawn mowers in the future 😭
Sounds nice! literally 🙂 Who wants a loud, stinky gas mower?
Let the electric fan boys have their EVs and let us car enthusiasts keep our ICE.
Nope, you can’t have gas. It has to be taken away from you.
Now I see why you keep getting downvoted to hell. What a bitter, arrogant attitude.
LOL Can’t take a joke?
Last I checked, jokes need to be funny. Good try, though…we all know you weren’t joking.
Maybe just a little 🙂 I DO like to trigger 🙂
See my above comment about getting a job.
Gas banger ❤️
I’m reporting you to Biden for gas banger confiscation LOL
Joe Biden was a bad bad boy in 1994. I don’t support racism.
Now he’s REALLY going to take away your gas car 🙂
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.
Unused nighttime grid capacity is ready for entire US vehicle fleet to recharge right now.
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.
How is it inconvenient to plug in when you get home and unplug when you go to work in the morning? Gas stations are more convenient?
How can the government raise the price of electricity when utilities are privately owned?
When you drive long distance, don’t you stop to take food and pee breaks every 2 hours or 120 miles? Perfect time to recharge for 20 minutes until the next break, no?
By the time we have 20% of cars electrified, there will be solid state batteries. No rare earths needed 🙂
1. Good point, supports my claim good for short distance, like commuter cars
2. Uh gas stations are privately held too last time I checked yet uncle sam and the state govts get their hands in our pockets all the same
3. Yep, we stop, for food and pee, but 20 minutes of solar charge isn’t going to get you very far, as you wont have a charger in every parking spot at your local McDs. Get real.
4. Good luck with that. The reason for the exotic elements today is due to need for getting a lot of energy out of a small package. If you don’t recall physics 101, you don’t get something for nothing, conservation principles.
I am all for doing things that make sense to reduce our carbon footprint. Reducing pollution is good, no doubt. However, I am not for upending everything we know works well when its not practical nor logical.
1. I’ve driven the entire US from Pacific to Atlantic and back. charging at walmart isn’t ideal, but it’s a food and pee stop. A $5k used Spark EV with an 85 mile battery and a rental car for the yearly long trip is still cheaper for the average person than owning a gas car full time.
2. Gas stations don’t determine price per barrel, they don’t make money selling gas for pennies of profit or no profit. They make money on store items. Just like dealers who don’t make money on maintenance free EVs. Oil companies are not regulated utilities, they get tax breaks and military subsidies that utilities don’t get. The government has to pay for the roads somehow. If you don’t like gas taxes, how about a weight and mile tax?
3. See #1. It’s doable, you just have to want to look at plugshare and GM has to want to integrate it into the screen.
4. Rare earths today, solid state tomorrow. Computers and phones used to cost a lot too. Horse and buggy is better?
5. How is plugging in when you get home and unplugging in the morning upending anything? How is standing at a gas station in all weather logical and practical when you don’t have to?
After owning a Volt and driving mostly in electric mode, I’m happy with this decision. I think this will be an exciting time.
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