{"id":14892,"date":"2024-10-17T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14892"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:23:18","slug":"why-gms-mary-barra-still-believes-in-evs-despite-slow-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=14892","title":{"rendered":"Why GM\u2019s Mary Barra Still Believes in EVs, Despite Slow Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mary Barra, G.M.\u2019s chief executive, said that the company had fixed battery-manufacturing problems and that its electric vehicles would soon be profitable.<\/p>\n

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Electric vehicles have had a hard year. Sales have been disappointing. Former President Donald J. Trump has regularly disparaged them. And even many environmentally conscious car buyers have been choosing hybrids instead.<\/p>\n

Yet the chief executive of General Motors, Mary T. Barra, says the company is still committed to doing away with combustion engine cars in the United States by 2035 \u2014 and she may have good reason for her optimism.<\/p>\n

G.M. says it will start making money on battery-powered models by the end of the year \u2014 becoming the only U.S. automaker aside from Tesla to achieve that feat. Sales of G.M.\u2019s electric vehicles are starting to take off. And the company just introduced a model that sells for less than $30,000 after a federal tax credit.<\/p>\n

G.M. and other manufacturers have delayed investment in electric vehicle projects. But in an interview, Ms. Barra rebuffed the notion that the transition from internal combustion has run out of juice. She said G.M. was determined to uphold its 2021 pledge to phase out sales of gasoline cars by 2035<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThat is the plan we\u2019re still executing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her expression of resolve comes at a critical moment. Without G.M., the largest U.S. carmaker, it is unlikely that the country can move away from internal combustion engines and the greenhouse gases they emit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Ultium Cells facility in Spring Hill, Tenn., that G.M. operates through a joint venture with LG Energy Solution.<\/span>Brett Carlsen for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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A worker at the facility operating a control interface inside the battery cell clean room.<\/span>Brett Carlsen for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mary Barra, G.M.\u2019s chief executive, said that the company had fixed battery-manufacturing problems and that its electric vehicles would soon be profitable.Electric vehicles have had a hard year. Sales have been disappointing. Former President Donald J. Trump has regularly disparaged them. And even many environmentally conscious car buyers have been choosing hybrids instead.Yet the chief executive of General Motors, Mary T. Barra, says the company is still committed to doing away with combustion engine cars in the United States by 2035 \u2014 and she may have good reason for her optimism.G.M. says it will start making money on battery-powered models by the end of the year \u2014 becoming the only U.S. automaker aside from Tesla to achieve that feat. Sales of G.M.\u2019s electric vehicles are starting to take off. And the company just introduced a model that sells for less than $30,000 after a federal tax credit.G.M. and other manufacturers have delayed investment in electric vehicle projects. But in an interview, Ms. Barra rebuffed the notion that the transition from internal combustion has run out of juice. She said G.M. was determined to uphold its 2021 pledge to phase out sales of gasoline cars by 2035 in the United States.\u201cThat is the plan we\u2019re still executing,\u201d she said.Her expression of resolve comes at a critical moment. Without G.M., the largest U.S. carmaker, it is unlikely that the country can move away from internal combustion engines and the greenhouse gases they emit.The Ultium Cells facility in Spring Hill, Tenn., that G.M. operates through a joint venture with LG Energy Solution.Brett Carlsen for The New York TimesA worker at the facility operating a control interface inside the battery cell clean room.Brett Carlsen for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14894,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14895,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14892\/revisions\/14895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}