General Motors is one of three automakers to be named to Time Magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential Companies for 2021.
The 100 Most Influential Companies list is a new addition to Time Magazine’s TIME100 series, which also includes its annual ranking of the 100 Most Influential People. This unranked list covers the companies “that are shaping our collective future, as well as the leaders who steer them,” Time CEO and editor in chief Edward Felsenthal said, and includes organizaitons from a variety of sectors such as health care, entertainment, transportation and technology, among others.
GM CEO Mary Barra
GM was recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies for 2021 thanks to its ongoing efforts to transform itself into a greener and more sustainable company. While Time acknowledges that GM “is playing serious catchup in the electric-vehicle game,” it commends the company for its recent $27 billion investment to bring 30 new EV models to market by 2025. The magazine also spoke to GM CEO Mary Barra about the automaker’s eco-friendly initiatives, who explained that the size and scope of the company will give it a strong position in the EV marketplace – even against more established EV-makers like Tesla, which enjoys a sky-high market cap of $700 billion.
“One of the pieces I think that sometimes investors miss is that virtually all the assets necessary to achieve our vision we already have and have demonstrated,” Barra told Time when asked about Wall Street’s appetite for Tesla stock. “Sometimes we will forget we actually sell more vehicles in this country than anyone else. We have strong brands. We have industry-leading loyalty. And we have an incredibly capable manufacturing team.”
Other automakers on the inaugural Time 100 Most Influential Companies list include Volkswagen and Tesla. The publication recognized Tesla for its wide-reaching influence on the automotive sector, which has established automakers like GM taking a long hard look at its dealership practices and the types of products it offers. VW, meanwhile, finds itself in a similar position to GM, making large-scale investments to electrify its product portfolio and play a bit of catchup to Tesla.
Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People edition will feature five different worldwide covers, each spotlighting a CEO from one of the companies on the list. Barra appears alongside the GMC Hummer EV on one of the covers and is joined by a tagline reading “General Motors CEO Mary Barra is engineering a greener future.” The other four covers will feature Reese Witherspoon of Hello Sunshine, Adam Silver of the National Basketball Association, Francis deSouza of Illumina and Sara Menker of Gro Intelligence.
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Yes, let’s idolize a women who puts personal gain ahead of domestic jobs and the future of the company. She should be on the cover of the China Time. Mary “Antoinette” Barra is going to “lead” lowercase gm directly into another government bailout and all the simps will love her for it. Such a joke.
so which auto company would you place at the top?
seems like everyone is doing more or less the same thing except gm is leaning into ev/av’s more and earlier than most.
Personal gain can be said for any western CEO to be honest. So she can’t be roasted solely for her actions as others follow suit too.
Hey man don’t you know that we live in the modern USA, you can’t criticize a female! Off with you mate! Ridiculous! I am only joking. I know why she is praised.
“Let them plug in” she said!
Very well deserved. Mary will likely be regarded as the greatest CEO of GM, eclipsing Sloan. Along with Mark Reuss the current leadership is the best in the business.
I agree, Mary is the best GM has had in my lifetime… She is the perfect person for the job during the times of change.
She is perfect to be CEO of lowercase gm. As everything she does is goes along with the present day west and follows the narrative.
We wouln’t NEED change if she STAYED THE COURSE!
Why? because she’s a woman?
Ah yes, Mark Reuss who’s legacy will be the revered pontiac aztec and totalling a ZR1 pace car. How a buffon like that still has a job speaks volumes about the lowercase gm workplace.
Lebron should be on the cover with her
They could both drive around in an electric Caitlyn Camaro.
Mary Antionette Barra WON’T be influential, after shareholder justice catches up with her “let them eat cake” EVs.
Time magazine is a shell of its former self. When poundmetoo was on the cover one knew they could not be taken seriously. Time magazine is for people who drink the koolaid and follow whatever the narrative of the day is. So how do they define influential? Sure gm leads the way in corporate pandering. Also gm leads the way in BOF SUVs and sells solid trucks. They do have some good products. But lets be real worldwide outside of the truck USA market and China, gm does not have the influence they once had.
For the record gm and corporations like VAG are engineering “greener” futures because they are told to do so. Not because they believe so much in these battery packs on a frame cars.
Furthermore one knows times is a joke when companies like onlyfans, bumble, and tiktok are on the cover. I wonder how many weak fathers know that their daughter is on onlyfans or some sugar site. What a clown world we live in.
This whole EV push for the masses sounds very forced and over hyped IMO. It’s literally going to take decades in order for EV’s to be accepted by the public. If it ever does.
Mary is just trying to appease to the crooked radical environmentalists that want to ban anything and everything that slightly emits carbon into the atmosphere. I wouldn’t be surprised if farting will be illegal one day and get you thrown in jail because of the methane it produces. 🙄😵💫😒
Let Americans decide what we want, and don’t want. It’s that simple. Don’t force this crap and make it sound like it’s all for protecting the environment. Because it’s not, it’s about making vehicles with an even lesser lifespan. You can start any gas powered vehicle that’s been sitting for decades with just a basic 12 volt battery and some gas. You won’t be able to do that with an EV sitting for years, The battery will be long dead by then. the EV will be even more disposable and worthless than ICE vehicles. How can they not be.
If EV’s can’t fully recharge in 5-10 minutes, it will never work on a mass scale. People are used to easily fully filling up their gas tanks in 5 mins. To have to ask drivers that they need to wait a half an hour to an hour or more to fully recharge is unacceptable to just about everyone.
Also we all know that fast charging prematurely wears out batteries faster. And imagine the resale value on an EV? It would be horrendously bad because of the battery age. Nobody will want to own a 5 year old EV because the expense of a battery replacement wouldn’t be worth it.
The massive investment for GM in EV’s sounds great in all, but at the end of the day, if Americans don’t want them and find out that the cost of ownership is even higher than that of an ICE vehicle because of high electricity rates and other factors, then they just wasted a ton of time and money for something that the majority of people might not even desire to own at all.
Cadillac is toast by 2030 if all they plan to offer are Evs.
Just an opinion, but I think Time magazine lost any credibility they ever had many years ago.
The sheer ignorance and rancor of many of these comments is just stupefying. Y’all sound like a bunch of bitter tRump fans.
Your Clown World might be woke but it’s far from awake
Seriously, major cities, states and even countries are preparing to ban sales of new vehicles with IC engines and you’re dumb enough to criticize GM management for getting ready for that? I’m glad you don’t work where I do, because you’re not smart enough to lol.
Did I criticize gm management? How dumb of me not to realize. But since you work with the smart people and because my viewpoint deviates from yours and obviously theirs by extension, I must clearly be too stupid to work where you do (wherever that is). Between you and me, I’ll consider that having dodged a bullet…
Careful you’ll turn this heated snowflake into a drip!
It can be flummoxing to venture beyond the chiller
Anyone who calls themselves Idiot Boy probably is 😉
Yeah the cars are zero emission but how do they fill up the batteries from a nuclear or coal burning power plant? What we have to infrastructure in place to church all these cars at home? think of the additional stress on the infrastructure.
Yes. First Nuclear is zero emission. Yes you have to mine uranium but even the mining process today is undergoing a massive sustainable revolution. Coal is very quickly dying as a source of electricity. And yes the grid has plenty of capacity to support EV’s. https://youtu.be/7dfyG6FXsUU
Hard pills to swallow. The grid will always use fossil fuels. Edit:Actually that might not be correct because fossil fuels will eventually run out, but they will use biogas or some type of greenhouse gas to meet surge demand. Nuclear isn’t renewable, but it’s realistically the most “green” power supply.
It is not ”very quickly dying” in other places in the world in fact it is expanding.