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Automaker Thursday set an ambitious public goal to end the sale of gasoline and diesel powered cars, SUVs and light duty trucks by the year 2035.

General Motors also pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040.

The news comes just over a week after President Joe Biden took office promising to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and replace hundreds of thousands of government vehicles with electric models.

All electric vehicle Future GM chief executive Mary Barra has aggressively pushed the company to embrace electric vehicles, saying in a statement the automaker had worked with the Environmental Defense Fund to quote, develop a shared vision of an all electric future, making our future something people raced word.

GM has a long way to go.

It sold 2.5 million vehicles in the United States last year on Lee, about 20,000 of which were E.

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But GM said in November it was investing $27 billion in electric and autonomous vehicles over the next five years, up from 20 billion in earlier plans.