General Motors Announces Plans To Ramp Up Electric Car Production Over Next 5 Years
General Motors says it will have two new electric cars on sale in 18 months and 20 models in its lineup by 2023, plus a fuel cell powered truck chassis.
General Motors says it will have two new electric cars on sale in 18 months and 20 models in its lineup by 2023, plus a fuel cell powered truck chassis.
Editor’s Note: Below is a repost from TeslaMondo that is followed by excerpts from an EV Annex post that further builds on the topic, with the topic being crazy anti-Tesla quotes from non-Tesla auto company execs.
General Motors makes the Chevy Bolt, a fully electric car. General Motors also has a half billion dollar investment in Lyft, the on-demand taxi service that competes head to head with Uber. In the future, the Chevy Bolt may be the backbone of Lyft’s fleet of autonomous driving cars, and those cars may be 100% powered by renewable energy.
The head of global product development at GM, Mark Reuss, was recently quoted as saying that the company was aiming to be the first auto manufacturer to sell an affordable electric vehicle that makes a profit.
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The CEO of GM, Mary Barra, recently revealed during a conversation with CNET’s RoadShow that the Chevy Bolt EV won’t simply be a standalone model — the platform will also be used for a “range” of different future electric vehicle models.
Fully autonomous versions of the Chevy Bolt EV will be manufactured at the same Orion Township assembly plant where the current non-autonomous versions of the model are being manufactured, going by recent comments made by GM CEO Mary Barra.
GM has finally begun delivering the first Chevy Bolts to buyers, buyers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The CEO of GM, Mary Barra, has been appointed to President-Elect Donald Trump’s 16-member economic and job creation advisory board — accompanied by the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Boeing, Walt Disney, Walmart, and others.
Ford is the first EV manufacturer to move electric vehicle culture firmly into the corporate social responsibility camp, with new membership status in EICC.