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Originally Posted by 90503

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.

October of 2017. These are the Reuss remarks that I originally misinterpreted. I interpreted them to mean that GM’s electrification plans only included EVs and fuel cells instead of hybrids. Others confirmed for me later that it meant no more ICE.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/aut...d-cars-n806806

There is no timing included in these remarks. Only that this is GM’s end game. In 2019 the remarks were clarified to include Cadillac being all electric by 2030. Then later Buick’s timeline was set at 2035. Then the whole passenger vehicle portfolio was described as being all EV by 2035.

Finally, here is GM’s Carbon Neutrality press release from January 2021. Yes, this was released after Biden took office. Days after. Anyone who thinks the strategy behind this started in November 2020 after the election and progressed to a press release in January doesn’t understand how corporate strategy works. This press release says that not only will all GM’s products be zero emissions (EV and fuel cell), but the plants that make them will be net zero in terms of carbon emissions. It takes years to develop, study and confirm a strategy of this magnitude. It could be that GM sat on this announcement until after the Biden Administration was in place, but there is no doubt it was a long time in development and scoping and was the direction of the company before the election even took place.

https://news.gm.com/newsroom.detail....28-carbon.html