A new insight brief calls for cross-sector collaboration between transportation network companies, policymakers, utilities and key cities’ stakeholders to align on ridehailing electrification and accelerate toward ambitious transportation-sector climate goals.
Transportation network company (TNC) fleets, like Uber and Lyft in America, Didi in China, and Ola in India, may account for a relatively small share of the number of total automobiles on the road globally. But don’t let that fool you. Electrifying ridehailing has outsized potential to reduce emissions and catalyze electrification in other transportation sectors.
150 out of Cadillac’s 880 dealers have chosen to stop selling the brand’s cars to avoid getting into EV sales. Costs for dealer upgrades may have been the deciding factor, but dealers continue to be an obstacle to electrification.
General Motors has done a complete about face and decided to support the agreement Ford, Honda, BMW, Volkswagen, and Volvo struck with the state of California on vehicle emissions earlier this year.
General Motors is picking up the pace of electric car development and putting another $7 billion behind its EV push.
Paris Agreement or not, the US offshore wind industry will propel the nation down the road to a green recovery and a renewable energy future.
In Part Two, we explore how Ford and GM funded climate denial and gamed the fuel economy system.
An exhaustive study by E&E News finds Ford and GM had research scientist on their staffs for decades who warned of the threat posed by carbon dioxide emissions. But both companies ignored those findings and mislead the public and the government about the danger.
General Motors says it will invest $2 billion to renovate the Spring Hill factory in Tennessee to build electric cars, starting with the Cadillac Lyriq.
General Motors says it wants to build its own electric motors and drivetrains and it seeks to make its electric car business a vertically integrated component of its business.
