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Biden’s Green Push Gives Detroit the Cover to Go Electric
- GM goes all-in on EVs ahead of White House policy push
- U.S. automakers play catch-up with rivals in China, Europe
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General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra just stomped on the electric-vehicle accelerator pedal. Call it the Biden effect.
Six months ago the automaker backed the Trump administration in a legal battle that could have neutered California’s longstanding right to set its own tougher carbon-emission rules. About two weeks after Trump lost, GM withdrew from that fight and two weeks after he left office, it pledged to match the state’s mandate to sell only electric vehicles starting in 2035 -- and do that all across the U.S.