GM planning to make only electric cars by 2035

[Dewey_Finn]

@Procrustus

@Little_Nemo

Making public announcements in 2021 about the electric cars you’re going to build in 2035 is virtue signaling.

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 on the New York Times website today that suggested that GM’s announcement was intended, in part, to avoid tougher fuel economy rules today.