General Motors CEO Mary Barra discusses the future of cars at Aspen Ideas Festival - 6/26/2023

General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra challenged the auto industry as leader of the first major U.S. automaker to pledge all electric cars and SUVs by 2035. She joins NBC News' Rebecca Blumenstein to discuss the future of cars. NBCUniversal News Group is the media partner of the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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LIVE: General Motors CEO Mary Barra discusses the future of cars at Aspen Ideas Festival - 6/26/2023

[@EVRevolution]

Great interview and thanks for posting this!

[@gmv0553]

GM should have consulted with Sandy Munro before moving to electric! They could have saved a lot of money!

[@lkendrix7782]

You’re right! Pay me the obscene salary of $29 million dollars a year even with declining vehicle sales every year since 2016, plants closings, layoffs, a series of fines and lawsuits, invested money in Nikola Motors, discontinued models like the Chevy Bolt and have not produced a minimum number of EVs, continuing problems with batteries after numerous recalls on the Chevy Bolt. Chevy Bolt production will end soon. GM would have 18 different EV models but currently only have 4 in production, stock price continues to decline, borrowed more money from the government, have not paid off previous loan from the government, what do you think I would say?!!! Things are getting better?! LOL! Just keep paying me the obscene salary of $29 million a year! The new models are coming! My name is Mary BS Barra! I’m the CEO of GM, suckers!

[@normt430]

Sandy does not consult legacy on ICE vehicles.

[@lkendrix7782]

@@normt430 That’s to bad for Legacy Auto makers! They could learn a thing or two!

[@normt430]

@@lkendrix7782 he lives in start-ups who have to do everything from scratch. The legacy auto companies have constraints of tier suppliers and won't see EV benefits to design as soon as start-ups

[@EVRevolution]

@@normt430 And while he is very knowledgable and much more of an expert than I am, he is not the cats meow of the auto industry. There are many many talented and knowledgable folks at GM and other OEMs that are moving the yardsticks forward!

[@anthonysmith1591]

Remember when Mary was asked if she drove an EV? She answered "No, I live in Michigan" ... Mary led

[@JuniorExecutive1987]

Asking GM about the future of cars is like asking MySpace about the future of social media

[@JM-zs5hp]

Hands down the best analogy I've seen about GM

[@normt430]

GM SECURES SUPPLIES TO BUILD 1 MILLION EVs IN 2025 As we reported earlier in the week, GM says it expects its EV lineup will be profitable by 2025 and now it’s sharing how it will make it happen. The automaker is aiming to build 1 million EVs annually in North America by 2025 and perhaps most importantly, GM says it has secured all the battery raw materials it needs to reach that capacity. It will have five assembly plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico producing all those EVs and it will have three battery plants in the U.S. in operation by the end of 2024, with a fourth cell plant planned. GM’s commercial EV subsidiary, BrightDrop, is on track to reach $1 billion in revenue next year and is projecting to build 50,000 vehicles annually by 2025. The company is also launching a new digital retail platform for EV customers that GM says will reduce costs for the company by $2,000 per vehicle. Sure sounds like online sales. And not surprisingly, that’s the exact same amount Ford CEO Jim Farley said its dealers need to remove from the cost of vehicle delivery to be competitive with Tesla. And by 2025, GM says revenue from EVs is expected to be more than $50 billion. Autoline

[@danielspoerle9657]

Or asking Kodak about making cameras.

[@GhGh-pi3hb]

If the Chevy Bolt is popular with consumers, why get rid of the truck? This does not make any sense.

[@Imchkofficial]

How can we reach Mary Barra

[@Wise-up-already]

So frustrating to hear it positioned as "Musk" vs "Mary". It's Tesla vs GM.

[@lkendrix7782]

You’re right. It’s no competition! Tesla rules!

[@normt430]

“Tesla didn’t move fast enough … to shut the door” on its competition, said John Murphy, lead auto analyst for Bank of America Research, during a presentation of his annual Car Wars study in June. Murphy forecasts Tesla’s share will slide to just 11% by 2025. During the same period, both General Motors and Ford Motor Co. will see their share of the emerging market for BEVs grow to around 15% each.

[@sam_1bsabidee950]

Why not trying to sale in South East Asia? Bangkok has so much traffic jam that waring facemask is not related to COVID, but because of prolusion there is very bad. This is where EVs has a lot more range than ICE vehicle. According to a lot of KZbin channels BYD is having problem with trying to keep up with the demand, long line of people waiting to buy EVs in Thailand.

[@c8scorpio]

Can't wait to get my C8 E-Ray

[@GhGh-pi3hb]

Good paying jobs is right? So why are you supporting the strikers?

[@user-hm5gu4pf9z]

K tell me when I ask you a question like reply with the problems which is we got

[@markdc1145]

The correct answer to the China question should have been "we are quickly disengaging with China and closing our factories"

[@JM-zs5hp]

Watching her make thinly veiled excuses and trying to put a positive spin on how far behind GM is is comical. As a company, they actively fought the transition to electric vehicles regardless of what she said in this interview.

[@normt430]

Cypress 3d ago Replying to KingFisher You know there was a global pandemic that sort of slowed things down right? But let's see they have currently: Bolt Bolt EUV Menlo Velite 6 Velite 7 Bajoun E300/Kiwi Wuling Mini EV Hummer EV Brightdrop 600 Lyriq Coming soon Cruise AV Cruise Origin Brightdrop 400 Celistiq (2023) Wuling Bingo (2023) Hummer SUV EV (2023) Silverado EV (2023) Sierra EV (2023/2024) Blazer EV (2023) Equinox EV (2023) Buick Electra E5 (2024) Buick Electra E4 (2024)

[@TechedOff]

Yeah she is the one who called the model 3 a science project when unveiling the bolt at CES

[@normt430]

@@TechedOff is she? Couldn't find the quote.

[@sabinek.1772]

Just following the saying, "if you realize, you are sitting on a dead horse, get off." Why not creating new ideas, instead of holding on to old ones.....mobility for the future, includes a lot more than cars.

[@gtamantube]

Camaro dead; 100k corvettes; nobody wants batteries for their fun cars

[@larryschweitzer4904]

Model S!

[@user-hm5gu4pf9z]

K tell me when I ask you a question like reply with the problems which is we got the problem is you know you got to sell them a new car into yours everybody we going to have people buy into do you have to have cars you know that sorry for cylinder they don't want to oh you got to have nice cars fast😊 change the Dynamics of the you just got to change the pressure of the fluid like transmission hydraulics in motion that's what has to be America star electrical with hydraulic so the system continues to run into more perfection and less consumption of electrical power and more better than Tessa wants to compete Tesla does we want to help Tesla😊 don't help her competitors and then who's

[@GhGh-pi3hb]

Barra should be fired because she does not have the auto industry’s best interest in mind. She really wants to ruin it.

[@jed2049]

GM vehicles are the LEAST American made. Tesla are the most. Fact. Mary, get rekt.

[@jadusiv]

These kind of things will age like milk when GM goes out of business in the next few years or begs for even more massive loans.

[@gmv0553]

Never happen!!!

[@lkendrix7782]

@@gmv0553Keep watching. Pay me the obscene salary of $29 million dollars a year even with declining vehicle sales every year since 2016, plants closings, layoffs, a series of fines and lawsuits, invested money in Nikola Motors, discontinued models like the Chevy Bolt and have not produced a minimum number of EVs, continuing problems with batteries after numerous recalls on the Chevy Bolt. Chevy Bolt production will end soon. GM would have 18 different EV models but currently only have 4 in production, stock price continues to decline, borrowed more money from the government, have not paid off previous loan from the government, what do you think I would say?!!! Things are getting better?! LOL! Just keep paying me the obscene salary of $29 million a year! The new models are coming! My name is Mary BS Barra! I’m the CEO of GM, suckers!

[@normt430]

What part of recent record setting don't you understand?

[@jadusiv]

@@normt430 receiving record setting loans from the government you mean?

[@normt430]

@@jadusiv GM now projects 2022 adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) for the full year will be in a range of $13.5 billion to $14.5 billion. GM's previous guidance for adjusted EBIT was $13 billion to $15 billion. EBIT is an indicator of the company's profitability and is calculated as revenue minus expenses excluding tax and interest. Autoline

[@danielspoerle9657]

Cringe overload!