The group is setting itself more ambitious climate targets than other car manufacturers.
The largest US automaker General Motors (GM) wants to set up its global range of new vehicles to be completely emission-free by 2035. “General Motors joins governments and companies around the globe in their work for a safer, greener and better world,” said company chief executive Mary Barra on Thursday. GM is setting itself more ambitious climate targets than other car manufacturers, but the decision is also based on political pressure.
For example, the most populous US state, California, has already announced that it will no longer allow new gasoline and diesel vehicles from 2035. California is the largest US automobile market in the region and is considered a pioneer in terms of climate protection, whose emissions regulations are followed by many other US states. At the moment, US corporations like to be involved in climate protection anyway, the new President Joe Biden attaches great importance to this, unlike his predecessor Donald Trump.
