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GM Wants To Build 500,000 Electrified Vehicles Annually By 2017
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Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
Published: November 14th, 2012
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General Motors is looking to sell 500,000 vehicles with electrification technology by 2017, but the bulk of its focus will be on EVs or plug-in cars rather than conventional hybrids.
While hybrid technology is considered “important” to GM, product chief Mary Barra told Automotive News that “…we think plug-in technology will play an increasingly important role over the years to come.”
GM will hedge their bets on plug-in vehicles with their eAssist mild hybrid system. Meanwhile, the Chevrolet Spark EV and Cadillac ELR will both launch next year as part of GM’s push to meet 500,000 electrified cars annually, which will account for roughly 6 percent of the 9 million vehicles sold by GM each year.
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Published November 14th, 2012 4:02 PM
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Oh, look! It's the Cadillac Mach1! (Excuse me while I go barf)
Man, I wish I would have waited before I bought my 2012 Impala. I could have leased a Volt, now that GM offeres a very attractive lease a couple of months later...
General Motors certainly can't depend on those mild hybrids (Chevrolet Malibu Eco; Buick LaCrosse eAssist), nor the exorbitantly priced GMT900 hybrids. But I say it can be done. Whether or not there's any real point, I don't know. But I do think that Tesla's recent acclaim finally has Detroit sitting up and taking notice...
Summer 2013 the Spark EV will be available in CA.