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Old 03-27-2022, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by tophcfa View Post
The Government Relations department at GM are telling upper level management that “like it or not” they will be forced to move to EV’s in the future. GM engineers are then being told by upper level management to focus on EV’s. The engineers aren’t focusing on EV’s because it’s superior technology, it’s because they are doing what their bosses tell them to do.
I agree with the above. Unlike others, I believe that transition to Electric Vehicles can happen rather quickly. Government mandate and incentives can speed the conversion.

But that is the easy part. Battery technology will improve and support longer rides. But that neglects the requirement to generate the electricity to charge the EV batteries which is still highly dependent on fossil fuels.