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Bizcast: Mary Barra on Driving GM’s Electric Future

In this episode of Columbia Bizcast, listen to GM CEO Mary Barra’s keynote appearance at the Tamer Institute’s 2024 Climate Business & Investment Conference, where she shared the automaker’s bold strategy to lead the electric vehicle revolution. 

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August 14, 2024
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Mary Barra is the CEO of General Motors, the largest automaker in the US and one of the world's leading mobility companies. She is at the helm of GM's transformation into an all-electric future, with the goal of producing only electric vehicles by 2035. 

In this episode of Bizcast, we'll hear audio from Barra's talk at the Tamer Institute’s 2024 Climate Business & Investment Conference at Columbia Business School, where she talked with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist’s global energy and climate innovation editor, sharing the automaker’s bold strategy to lead the electric vehicle revolution. 

Discover how GM is leveraging its scale, innovation, and consumer-focused approach to create affordable, high-performance EVs that are shaping the future of mobility.

Listen to the podcast using the link above, or read more about the event here.

 

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