Yes, but statements like this GM one are nonsense. Elon repeatedly says the hurtle is battery production. He would have several different models already if he could make the batteries faster. I don’t see others building giga factories like Tesla so it’s a pipe dream and political showing.
Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, January 28, 2021, 8:13 PM, Mark Abramowitz via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: Does anyone still disagree that we’ve passed the tipping point? - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Jan 28, 2021, at 6:01 PM, Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > It's a long way off but, hey, they are making it official. > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/28/general-motors-electric/ > > GM has said it would invest $27 billion in electric vehicles and associated > products between 2020 and 2025, ... includes refurbishing factories and > investing in battery production in conjunction with LG Chem, a South Korean > battery maker. > > By late 2025, about 40 percent of the company’s U.S. models will be > battery-powered electric vehicles, > > The electric-vehicle industry has grown exponentially in the past decade but > still represents less than 2 percent of automobiles sold in the United States. > > The timing of the GM announcement was tied in large part to the election of > Joe Biden ... Biden signed an executive order that calls for the federal > fleet of approximately 645,000 vehicles to be converted to electric power. He > has also vowed to expand charging stations for electric cars, revise and > extend electric-vehicle tax credits and tighten fuel economy standards for > gas-powered vehicles. > > Volkswagen, for example, is planning to launch almost 70 new electric models > in the next 10 years... Ford ... is spending $11.5 billion through 2022 on > new EVs. Tesla plans to increase sales of its all-electric fleet. > > > << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210129/fe59baac/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210129/a2db4c32/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
