The American giant General Motors has set itself the goal of selling only electric cars from 2035. Important side note: these are what the group calls ‘light duty’ vehicles. Large commercial vehicles and heavy pick-ups are not covered.
General Motors says it wants to be completely CO2 neutral by 2040 and has set 2035 as the year in which all its passenger cars and light commercial vehicles must be fully electric. The company has recently invested heavily in electrified transport. By 2025, the General Motors model range in the United States should already consist of 40 percent EVs. Between now and 2025, General Motors says it will release no fewer than thirty new electric cars. The facelifted Bolt and the new Bolt EUV are two of them, and the announced EVs from Cadillac and GMC (Hummer) are also included.
Because the use of mainly electric models is not yet enough to be ‘CO2-neutral’, General Motors will soon be working together with charging station operator EVgo to add more than 2,700 fast chargers to the infrastructure by 2025. The production processes must also be ‘greened’. From 2030 says The General using only renewable energy for its US manufacturing facilities. By 2035, all production locations outside the United States must also use renewable energy. The fact that GM is talking about light dutymodels suggests that the heavy dutyversions of the Silverado, among others, will also have to do without an electric powertrain in the future.