The switch to pure electric cars will happen. But it won't come stealthily overnight, believes General Motors director Mary Barra.
As sales of new electric cars slow down – not just here at home but also in the US – the car brands are almost in a fight to change their minds.
Now several of the car brands suddenly want to stick with the internal combustion engine. And several of them do not know when the electric car can compete with the fossil car on price.
And at General Motors, director Mary Barra now says it will take decades to switch to electric cars. She believes that it will happen. But at the same time, it's not something that goes super fast.
NBC News writes.
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In any case, the GM top is now talking about decades and not years, because electric cars are dominant on the roads. The director says so in a new interview.
In the interview with the media, Barra also allowed himself to praise GM's breadth in the existing model program of cars with a combustion engine.
– In 2018, we said that we were determined for an all-electric future. But that transformation is going to happen over decades. And that's why I'm also very proud of our program of diesel and petrol cars at the moment, says Barra.
After the interview, however, a GM spokesman struggled to state that it is still the car group's official position that the internal combustion engine must be a thing of the past by 2035 at the latest.
However, it is not certain that GM needs to worry about a deadline at all. A former member of BMW's board of directors expects that, in any case, the EU will very soon regret or postpone the ban on the internal combustion engine. Read more about it here.
And then there is the question of whether GM even wants to return to Europe. When the group sold Opel to the former Peugeot-Citroën in 2017, the Americans officially disappeared from Europe. It happened 2 years after Chevrolet had withdrawn.
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