# GM planning to make only electric cars by 2035

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**Created:** [January 29, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gm-planning-to-make-only-electric-cars-by-2035/931775 "2021-01-29T14:41:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gm-planning-to-make-only-electric-cars-by-2035/931775/41 "2021-02-19T00:46:54Z")

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> [@Procrustus](#):
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> > [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> > Making public announcements in 2021 about the electric cars you’re going to build in 2035 is virtue signaling.
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> Is there a difference between “virtue signaling” and adverting? I see Boeing ads on TV, despite the fact most of us are not in the market for a 757. Companies like to market their brand, and that doesn’t seem any worse than telling me 8,250 times a day how I can save 15% of my car insurance.

There was an [opinion piece](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/electric-cars-SUV.html) on the New York Times website today that suggested that GM’s announcement was intended, in part, to avoid tougher fuel economy rules today.

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