General Motors to move away from gasoline and diesel-powered cars by 2035

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By Ashish Mitra --
Friday, 29 Jan, 2021

General Motors Co has said that it was setting a goal to sell all its new cars, SUVS and light pickup trucks with zero tailpipe emissions by 2035. This is a dramatic shift by the largest U.S. automaker that wants to move away from gasoline and diesel engines.

GM, which also said it plans to become carbon neutral by 2040, made its announcement just over a week after President Joe Biden took office pledging to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and dramatically boost the sales of electric vehicles.

GM sold 2.55 million vehicles in the United States last year of which only about 20,000 were EVs. It said in November it was investing $27 billion in electric and autonomous vehicles over the next five years up from $20 billion planned before the Coronavirus pandemic.

GM Chief Executive Mary Barra has aggressively pushed the automaker internally to embrace electric vehicles and shift away from gasoline-powered vehicles. She said in a statement that the automaker had worked with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an environmental advocacy group to develop a shared vision of an all-electric future and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035.

General Motors to move away from gasoline and diesel-powered cars by 2035. General Motors Co has said that it was setting a goal to sell all its new cars, SUVS and light pickup trucks with zero tailpipe emissions by 2035. This is a dramatic shift by the largest U.S. automaker that wants to move away from gasoline and diesel engines.

GM, which also said it plans to become carbon neutral by 2040, made its announcement just over a week after President Joe Biden took office pledging to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and dramatically boost the sales of electric vehicles.

GM sold 2.55 million vehicles in the United States last year of which only about 20,000 were EVs. It said in November it was investing $27 billion in electric and autonomous vehicles over the next five years up from $20 billion planned before the Coronavirus pandemic.

GM Chief Executive Mary Barra has aggressively pushed the automaker internally to embrace electric vehicles and shift away from gasoline-powered vehicles. She said in a statement that the automaker had worked with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), an environmental advocacy group to develop a shared vision of an all-electric future and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035.