GM is pivoting to EVs, but many customers in the meantime will want a first-rate V8 in their new full-size pickups and SUVs.
by the wayside at the end of its current generation, GM now has 854 million reasons to build an even better small block well into the future. Yes, GM is pivoting aggressively to battery-electric vehicles, but that gradual transition means many customers for the foreseeable future will want their new full-size pickups and SUVs powered by internal combustion.Center for Automotive Research
, GM, and Stellantis in terms of the SUVs and pickups. So there’s an incentive to do it right and do it really efficiently.Smith goes further and notes that there’s going to be pressure for automakers to meet California’s Advanced Clean Car regulations and a possible upcoming change to the EPA’s local pollutant criteria requirements. “You have to make an engine that is pretty darn efficient and very darn clean, if you’re going to be selling vehicles in the late 2020s,” notes Smith.
This gets us to the “mucky middle,” as Smith puts it. This is where there’s an increasing demand and use of battery-electric powertrains, but not a sharp decline in certain use cases of internal-combustion development, production, and ownership.
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