GM is going into the power generating business? How many terrawatts of new reliable constant power generation will be needed to charge GM’s EV output?
“As the Texas power grid shudders in part under renewable power, the auto industry is also facing an uncertain transition to green energy.”
Other than Cruz showing his true colors (rather than having to deal with that happening should he have tried running for president again), maybe some good is coming out of our blackouts!
We have uncountable electric vehicles in current use.
These electric vehicles operate on golf courses, retirement homes and loading docks. The forklift batteries are heavy, very heavy and cumbersome. They are big because of the effort required for the forklift to move very heavy loads.
These limited use vehicles would already be expanded to autos and trucks if profitable. GM is virtue signaling to pay for the Obama bail out of the UAW when it stole my retirement GM bonds to keep the UQ AW alive
The GM CEO is signaling fear and admitting that she can’t compete with the German and Japanese and especially Korean manufacturing technology
Wait till the batteries start piling up...and fires break out in a crash...and garages are burning down.
Obama Motors is back and it’s better than ever, lol.
Wanna bet BUYme gets a kickback?
Best electric cars are good for 300 miles.. so if I’m going 350 I need to stop overnight somewhere to charge up from a charging station whose power is from fossil fuel.
This is liberal logic.
From the headline: “...Experts Say Climate Case Is Weak...” Looks like certain ‘x-spurts’ may be lookin’ for work. Maybe they can learn to code? In the immortal words of the doom troll grrrrrrreta: “How dare you!?”
^ joejoe has diminishing electrical activity
GM ‘s board of directors should be replaced for incompetency. All electric will doom their company.
The only saviour would be a massive increase in nuclear energy output and great strides in battery tech. Neither is assured, both are unlikely to match our status quo.
Ah, the Government/Corporate Industrial Complex.
[[[[GM’s ex-chief of electrochemistry said in an interview that “fossil fuels can be used until they run out, in hundreds of years.”]]]]
Sounds like a plan.
It would have been even worse in Texas if all the vehicles were electric vehicles.
I fear this may become a backdoor assault on American mobility. Unless there are quantum leaps in battery technology, EV’s just don’t have the driving range to allow us the real options to go where we want, when we want.
I start thinking of how cell phones started getting “better” by eliminating things. First the removable battery, then the head phones jack, now expandable memory. None of those changes were due to “market” demands - but rather decisions by a couple of major manufacturers to force us to buy phones more often, wireless earbuds, and cloud storage products.
Now it seems car manufacturers may be following suit, telling us what’s good for us - and we’ll need to move closer, shop closer, and forget about leaving the state - except on approved public mass transit.
We’ll see...
Electric vehicles are great. We can shut down the power plants and get all the energy from the magic wall outlets.
GM engineers are going to turn electric motors into 1,000 HP corvettes and 500 lbft of torque gas motor assists for Trucks that power up hills and charge going down.
I don’t trust governments or the woke politicians that think they are “running” GM, but I do trust the engineers.
If I ever get an EV a GM one would be the last on my list.
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