Mary Barra

GM: EV Competition In China Driving Unstainable Price War

DETROIT - General Motors CEO Mary Barra has said there are so many companies trying to sell electric vehicles in China right now that it's driving a price war that isn't sustainable. Barra made the comments at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, responding to a question about the explosion of EV sales

By |2024-11-03T11:28:16-05:00November 3rd, 2024|Auto Tech, Clean Update, Clean, green, hybrid, Featured|

GM CEO Barra Says Self-Driving Car Goes On Sale Soon

DETROIT - General Motors CEO Mary Barra recently turned to the past to define the present. Barra crafted the company's statement of purpose, which GM introduced to all employees in January. When composing the statement, Barra said she struggled at first to find the right words, only to find inspiration from GM's 100-year-old articles of incorporation. Barra, who spoke on

By |2022-04-06T11:53:29-04:00April 6th, 2022|Auto Tech, Guest Columns|

Mary Barra: America’s Launching Pad For An All-Electric Future

DETROIT - Nearly 20 years ago, when I had the privilege of being the plant manager at General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, I could not have imagined the role it would someday play in charting the future of transportation. Over the past several months, we retooled this facility with the best, most advanced technology in

By |2021-12-02T15:10:04-05:00December 2nd, 2021|Auto Tech, Clean Update|

Mary Barra: We’re Transforming More Than Auto Industry

DETROIT - Four years ago this fall, we set our vision to create a world with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion. As with many defining moments in General Motors history, this vision served as a rallying point for our employees. Transformation and innovation have been part of our DNA for more than 100

By |2021-10-10T15:58:21-04:00October 10th, 2021|Guest Columns|

GM Chairman Barra: World Auto Industry Must Collaborate To Develop Cybersecurity For Connected Vehicles

DETROIT - General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra on Friday called on the world’s auto industry to collaborate to develop cybersecurity standards to not only protect the physical security of vehicle owners, but also the personal data they increasingly transmit through the connected vehicle. “Cybersecurity protects physical safety, privacy and data,” Barra said at

By |2016-07-30T10:09:39-04:00July 22nd, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Cyber Defense, Featured, Guest Columns, News|

MCWT Event: CIOs Thriving On Disruptive Technology

DETROIT - Nearly 1,000 technology professionals from Michigan met May 12 at Cobo Center in Detroit to hear GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra and other business leaders discuss how to thrive on disruptive technology. The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation’s Executive Connection Summit, sponsored by General Motors, Ford Motor Co., and FCA US LLC, featured female

By |2016-05-12T21:26:58-04:00May 12th, 2016|Guest Columns|