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CEO Barra backs GM’s push for autonomous vehicles

(Reuters) – General Motors’ CEO Mary Barra backed the Detroit automaker’s efforts towards building autonomous vehicles at a Detroit Economic Club event on Thursday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Barra’s comments come at a time when companies involved in autonomous driving technology are pushing for new feature-packed cars that are expected to be safer than human-driven ones. […]

GM will be executing on its EV ambitions in 2024, says CEO Mary Barra

Decades of climbing the ladder while challenging conventional thinking has brought Mary Barra to the present — the year of delivering on ambitious EV goals at storied automaker General Motors (GM). “I think in 2024, this is a year of of execution,” GM’s long-time chair and CEO said in a new episode of Yahoo Finance’s […]

Mary Barra Spent a Decade Transforming GM. It Hasn’t Been Enough.

Updated Dec. 16, 2023 12:04 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) At a 2018 meeting with a senior General Motors team, Chief Executive Mary Barra stunned the room with a sharp U-turn. She killed plans for a new high-end Cadillac that already had gushing reviews from the automotive press.  Her reason: the car’s gas-guzzling […]