It’s one thing for the state of California to announce that it will no longer allow the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035. It’s quite another when an automaker announces essentially the same thing. Today, General Motors CEO Mary Barra unveiled the automaker’s proposal to make GM a net-zero-carbon company. That means phasing out of light-duty vehicles that run on gasoline and diesel by 2035.
GM already accelerated its electric-vehicle plans back in November and now intends to build 30 new EVs by 2025. Now Barra has announced an even bolder clean vehicle plan that eliminates gas cars from the company and that might take consumers and the industry a while to fully comprehend.-- More...