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GM, travel operator Pilot to develop EV charging network
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So to electrify America’s fleet of trucks, freight companies would have to shift to vehicles that carry less cargo, stop to recharge far more often, spend hours of time recharging, and somehow travel long stretches of highway where there are no recharging stations. It’s just not going to happen anytime soon.
Between August 1, 1917, when the old General Motors Company became the General Motors Corporation, and December 31, 1962, the number of employees increased from 25,000 to over 600,000 and the number of shareholders from less than 3000 to more than one million. The corporation expanded its sales of cars and trucks produced in the United States and C
... See moreThe supply of lithium and cobalt needed to make batteries, and of the “rare earth” elements need to make electric motors, are already raising environmental and geopolitical questions. Lithium is quite abundant, but cobalt is not, and the main source of it is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where around a quarter of production is done by hand,
... See moreBecause we can’t electrify our cargo trucks, the only solutions available today are electrofuels and advanced biofuels. Unfortunately, they have dramatic Green Premiums too. Let’s add them to the chart:14