GM Has Upped Its Bet That Americans Will Go Electric

But Ford is going the other way, gambling that EV demand will come late

Steve LeVine
The Mobilist
Published in
3 min readJan 29, 2021

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GM says its Ultium battery will ultimately be powered by a silicon or lithium metal anode. Photo courtesy of GM

As the auto industry undergoes a technological revolution, we have watched two distinct strategies unfold in the United States. GM has positioned itself with the most aggressive developers of electric vehicles (EVs) on the planet. But, with combustion still…

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Steve LeVine
The Mobilist

Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.