GM exec: 'An electric future is coming, and coming fast'

摘要

A top General Motors Co. executive yesterday envisioned a future in which electric vehicles are omnipresent and gas stations are obsolete. "Can you imagine never visiting a gas station again? Never getting an oil change? Never replacing a spark plug?" asked Steve Carlisle, executive vice president and president of GM North America, during the Advanced Clean Transportation virtual conference. "That's the kind of revolutionary world of mobility that GM envisions. It's a future world with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion," he added. Carlisle's speech was a stark acknowledgement by America's largest automaker that electric vehicles will cause a seismic shift in society, with implications for the global fight against climate change. It came after a monthslong E&E News investigation found that GM and Ford Motor Co. privately researched the dangers of global warming in the 1960s but publicly cast doubt on the scientific consensus for decades (Climatewire, Oct. 26).