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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
Fair enough. I’ll find the exact quotes and dates of Mark Reuss announcing all electric and Carbon Neutrality. In all fairness, when he first talked about going all electric, I misinterpreted what he said and even said on this forum that what he meant was the electrified products would be all electric. I later received direct confirmation from someone very close to Mark that what he said and meant was that GM was moving to all electric. There was not a time frame put on it at then point. In later quotes he gave timing for Cadillac and then for all GM passenger vehicles going 100% electric. 2030 for Cadillac, 2035 for the whole company. Again these statements were made in 2019, some of them repeated in 2020. Again, before the Biden Administration.
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Perhaps this article with statements from Reuss has some links you may be looking for. Still none have any plan (pre-Biden) for ending ICE. It appeared that we would continue to have a choice, etc., etc. EVs would have to gain acceptance on their own merit and not be dependent on anti fossil fuel policies (none exisited pre-Biden) with gas prices at the time being reasonable and non-punitive (pre-Biden).
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2020/01...eeable-future/
It was a full one year later that GM, (and not coincidentally after a year of seeing the severity of Biden policies and bureaucratic opposition to oil, gas and fossil fuels), went full simpatico with the woke left and virtue-signaled the end of ICE vehicles by 2035.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/gene...s-by-2035.html
It's obvious that the Biden administration has made the policies parroted by GM and by default left the public with no choice other than EV.
To deny the Biden policies had no bearing on GM decisions to end ICE, that they were already set in stone pre-Biden is hardly believable. GM had no choice and soon neither will the rest of us.
With a different Congress and administration over the next few years, we can reverse the destructive transition to EVs that is dependent on bankrupting the country and the middle class for the platitudes and tyranny of the liberal global world order of the woke left in the U.S. and see a return to common sense and fossil fuel prosperity and economic security.