THE SUSTAINABILITY INTERVIEW
“ If you remove politics from it, EVs are a better vehicle. There’ s a better performance that comes with them.
“ An electric vehicle is exciting from an environmental standpoint and emissions reduction, and it’ s just a better vehicle experience.
“ I love to watch people get into one of our EVs and get excited about it – they are so much fun!”
She says that, when she lets someone drive her EVs, they hit that accelerator and it is an“ I can’ t go back” moment.
Moving from the edge of the seat to the heart of the matter, Cassandra tells how 12 of GM’ s EVs have bidirectional charging. She explains:“ Your vehicle is a moving energy asset, your own personal power plant, because in the event of a power outage, it can power your home. It’ s called vehicle-to-home.”
General Motors is currently working on the next evolution, moving from vehicleto-home to vehicle-to-grid. During power outages, EV drivers can“ give back to the grid and make money off of it”.
To Cassandra, the evidence in favour of EVs is overwhelming:“ There is better total cost of ownership, especially as we get to this vehicle-to-grid technology. And the more people learn and get comfortable, the more we address the barriers to EVs, the faster we’ re going to get there.
“ And world dynamics are really interesting right now because you watch oil prices spike and then what? EV interest just went up again.”
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