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A gas car creates exhaust which is composed of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and water vapor. An electric car doesn't use gas and runs on pure electricity so it doesn't emit exhaust. Electric cars are more expensive due to the manufacturing cost. What interests me about this topic is that electric cars are better for the environment and how the electric cars run without gas.

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The main point of this article is that GM (General Motors) plans to have all electric cars by 2035. GM announced this after Joe Biden (president of the United States) signed the bill that basically says all car companies should have a goal to have all electric cars by a certain year. This is a useful and reliable source. The goal of this source is to inform you on when GM is planning to have all electric cars by and the bill Biden passed. This source was helpful. This helps me convince people because it means less carbon emission vehicles. Carbon emission isn't great for the environment.

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DETROIT - General Motors wants to end production of all diesel- and gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs by 2035 and shift its entire new fleet to electric vehicles as part of a broader plan to become carbon neutral by 2040, the company said Thursday.

The company plans to use 100% renewable energy to power its U.S. facilities by 2030 and global facilities by 2035 - five years ahead of a previously announced goal.

GM's announcement comes a day after President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders that prioritize climate change across all levels of government and put the U.S. on track to curb planet-warming carbon emissions.

Shares of GM increased as much as 7.4% during intraday trading Thursday morning to $53 a share. As of midday Thursday, shares were up about 4%. GM has a market cap of about $73 billion.

For several years, GM has touted a guiding "triple zero vision," including a future with zero emissions through electric vehicles, but it never announced a time frame. The other goals include zero congestion and zero crashes through advanced safety technologies and self-driving vehicles.

"For General Motors, our most significant carbon impact comes from tailpipe emissions of the vehicles that we sell - in our case, it's 75 percent," GM CEO Mary Barra said in message on LinkedIn. "That is why it is so important that we accelerate toward a future in which every vehicle we sell is a zero-emissions vehicle."

The company characterized its 2035 EV goal as an "aspiration," citing regulations, infrastructure and other factors need to come together for the plan to be achieved. David Friedman, vice president of advocacy at Consumer Reports, criticized the automaker's lack of commitment to the goal.

"Strong aspirations are important and inspirational, but firm production plans and strong policies are what move the market and the climate," he said in a statement.

Electric vehicles, including battery-electric and fuel cell-powered vehicles, are currently a niche segment of the global automotive industry, estimated at less than 5% of sales by analysts. EVs are more costly to produce than those with internal combustion engines due to the battery and fuel cells that power the vehicles. But automotive executives and analysts are bullish that EVs, led by stricter regulations to reduce carbon emissions, are the future for the automotive industry.

Dane Parker, GM chief sustainability officer, reiterated that the company plans to be profitable in its transition from vehicles with traditional internal combustion engines to EVs.

"We feel this is going to be the successful business model of the future," he said during a media briefing Thursday. "We know there are hurdles, we know there are technology challenges, but we're confident that with the resources we have and the expertise we have that we'll overcome those challenges and this will be a business model that we will be able to thrive in the future."

GM has already announced plans to shift three of its U.S. plants to produce electric vehicles. Parker said the company is "excited" about the transition at its other plants.

"We feel like this transition is one that will protect all of our futures and will help us create a future that will benefit not only the planet, but the people," he said.

GM plans to release 30 new EVs globally by 2025 under a $27 billion investment in electric and autonomous vehicles during that time frame. It also previously announced expectations for a majority, if not all, of its luxury Cadillac cars and SUVs sold globally to be EVs by 2030.

"This is the time for this technology; this is the time for this change," Parker said, citing reduction in pricing and advancements in technologies, among other factors. "The convergence of those things has made this an inflection point that we want to seize."

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General Motors plans to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035

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DETROIT - General Motors wants to end production of all diesel- and gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs by 2035 and shift its entire new fleet to electric vehicles as part of a broader plan to become carbon neutral by 2040, the company said Thursday. The company plans to use 100% renewable energy to power its U.S.

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The main point of the article is that Governors from several different states have written to Joe BIden asking him to ban all cars and trucks that emit greenhouse gasses. I'm not quite certain why the Governors wrote to him in the first place, maybe to complain? The goal of this source was to inform others of the Governors decision. this a reliable and unbiased source.

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Governors Urge Biden To Order 100% Zero-Emission Car Sales By 2035

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Governors from a dozen states are asking President Biden to ban the sale of cars and light trucks that emit greenhouse gases by 2035. In a letter to the president, the governors of California, New York, North Carolina and nine other states - all but one a Democrat - asked for the change ahead of a White House climate summit, scheduled to begin Thursday.

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The main point of this article is that Joe Biden is betting big on electric vehicles. It's not the most helpful source i've come across but it'll do. it has reliable info and is unbiased. Compared to my other sources this one is slightly iffy. the goal of this source is to Inform people on Biden's decision to have more battery plants.

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subscribe to The NPR Politics Podcast podcast

President Biden is pushing hard to get more Americans to buy electric vehicles to rein in global warming and spur domestic manufacturing.

The $2 trillion infrastructure plan he is trying to sell to Congress includes about $174 billion to boost electric vehicle sales and production - more than the president proposes spending on roads and bridges.

But Biden has now been pulled into a global trade dispute over the fate of lithium ion battery factories in Georgia that threatens his electric vehicle goals for the United States and the Democratic Party's fragile success in the key swing state.

The South Korean corporation SK Innovation has built a large battery factory about 70 miles northeast of Atlanta, in the city of Commerce, population 7,000. Another factory alongside it is under construction, and a third is in the works. All told, they are expected to represent 2 million square feet of manufacturing space.

Yet earlier this year, SK said its Georgia operation may shut down because of a ruling against the company by the U.S. International Trade Commission in a dispute with LG Chem, a competitor also based in South Korea.

Even with the deep political divisions in the state, Georgia Democrats and Republicans have found common cause in trying to save the factories.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock said the ITC decision "threatens seriously" the future of the project in Commerce and Biden's own goals.

"We would lose 2,600 clean energy jobs in the short term, and 10,000 in the long term," he said during a Senate Commerce Committee meeting earlier this year.

In a letter to the Biden administration, Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp requested that the president overrule the trade commission, which he has the power to do.

"The livelihoods of thousands of Georgians are now in your hands," Kemp said. "This critical opportunity requires us to work together for the good of my state and our country."

Biden has until this Sunday to decide whether he will reject the trade commission's ruling. The stakes are high all around. Letting the ruling stand could damage the Democratic Party's credibility in Georgia and hobble a key supplier in a domestic EV market already hungry for batteries. Vetoing the decision would call into question the administration's global efforts to advance intellectual property protections, a major priority of American business.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

The dispute at the heart of Biden's choice stems from allegations by LG that as demand for electric vehicle batteries grew worldwide, SK developed a "catch-up plan" to expand its share of the U.S. electric vehicle market. As part of the plan, SK allegedly sought out and hired LG employees to "mine them for LG's know-how."

In 2019, LG filed a complaint with the ITC, arguing that SK became a viable competitor in the U.S., winning contracts with Ford and Volkswagen, only because it "misappropriated" trade secrets.

As the case moved forward, SK destroyed some internal documents, a move that an administrative law judge wrote "was done with a culpable state of mind and with intent to hide evidence of trade secret misappropriation."

SK argued that the destruction was "routine" and that it preserved documents relevant to the case. But in an order that did not rule on whether SK stole trade secrets, the ITC slammed the company, writing that it was eager to destroy the documents and that it demonstrated a "callous disregard" for the scale of the "extraordinary" act.

The ITC barred SK from importing the materials it needs to make batteries in Commerce, with a carveout for existing deals it has with Ford and Volkswagen. In response, SK has suggested it may pull out of the U.S.
"A lot at stake" for a city named Commerce

About a century ago, leaders in the small city of Harmony Grove, Ga., decided they wanted to make sure everyone knew their home was a center for business and capitalism, said Mayor Clark Hill. The textile industry reigned at the time, and they changed the name to Commerce.

Hill was first elected mayor in 2011, and he's tried to make sure the city lives up to its name. Perhaps his biggest achievement is helping to persuade SK to build massive battery factories in Commerce.

"It's surreal," said Hill, as he looked at one towering gray factory building and the steel skeleton of another under construction. "I mean, honestly, it seems like yesterday that we met with the scouts from SK."

SK is expected to spend more than $2 billion on factories in Commerce, and the state of Georgia and local authorities have provided a total of at least $300 million in tax breaks for the factories.

Hill says SK has donated money for libraries in Commerce in addition to the $400,000 it donated to aid the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

"This plant is going to serve basically the Western Hemisphere," Hill said. "So they have an operation that they're expanding right now in Hungary that takes care of Europe, and then they have a facility in South Korea that takes care of Asia, and we will take care of Mexico and the Americas and Canada."

Hill worries that if Biden doesn't reject the trade commission's ruling, it could harm or even halt the massive development he has facilitated, one that he hopes will give hope to the community and keep young people from moving out of town.

"There's a lot at stake here," Hill said, directing a message to the president. "Not just for our community, but for the Southeast, and also for, you know, redefining who we are as America, you know. If we want to do this clean energy thing and decrease our dependency on fossil fuels, I mean, this is the way to do it."
The consequences of rejecting the trade ruling
There is a worry that if Biden rejects the trade commission's ruling and keeps SK's operations going in Georgia, it could actually hamper the administration's long-term goal of getting more Americans to buy electric vehicles.

"If Biden overturns the ITC ruling, then that is basically saying, 'Yeah, it's OK to misappropriate trade secrets," said Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst with Guidehouse Insights, a market intelligence firm. Even though that's the signal some may receive, the ITC decision did not say that SK was guilty of stealing trade secrets; it ruled that it destroyed potential evidence.

Abuelsamid worries that overturning the trade commission's ruling would stifle innovation in the U.S. And that's just what it will take to develop cheaper batteries that last longer so more people will buy electric vehicles, like Biden wants.

They "spend billions of dollars every year on R&D to try to improve this technology," he said. But if there's no guarantee they can sell what they've developed, "you're gonna be probably less inclined to make that investment. And you're just gonna sit on what you have instead."

What's more, Abuelsamid said, there's so much demand in the U.S. for batteries right now, as more auto manufacturers plan to roll out electric vehicles, that even if SK leaves the U.S., it's unlikely those factories in Commerce will sit empty.

In fact, he expects more factories to come in.

"This is something where not only is this plant going to be operating," Abuelsamid said, "but there is probably going to be one built in the state, you know, the next state over, and the state to your north, and to the south, and in many other places that are going to be required to supply this industry over the next 15 years."

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Betting Big On Electric Vehicles, Biden Faces Fraught Decision On Ga. Battery Plant

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subscribe to The NPR Politics Podcast podcast President Biden is pushing hard to get more Americans to buy electric vehicles to rein in global warming and spur domestic manufacturing. The $2 trillion infrastructure plan he is trying to sell to Congress includes about $174 billion to boost electric vehicle sales and production - more than the president proposes spending on roads and bridges.

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Some perils if people continue to be indifferent about this topic are: global warming and environment change. There is only one solution to this problem and its buying an electric car. My first source has solutions from GM as well. If Global warming continues there will be no more icebergs or polar caps and that means no polar bears or penguins.

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Three reasons everyone should care about Electric cars and low emission vehicles   

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Three reasons everyone should care about Electric cars and low emission vehicles   