GM is expected to mass-produce self-driving electric vehicles in 2025 Cadillac's self-driving electric concept car

Financial Associated Press (Shanghai, Editor Huang Junzhi) - At the CES (the world's largest consumer electronics technology exhibition) online event on Wednesday, GM CEO Mary Barra showed off a new self-driving electric concept car from GM luxury brand Cadillac.

The stylish two-seater, called InnerSpace, is part of cadillac's Halo concept car range. The new car is built in a futuristic design language, which reminds us of the EQXX concept car that Mercedes-Benz recently released. Under the impact of the tide of electrification and intelligence, traditional automakers are showing their ambitions for transformation to consumers.

The new car adopts a more typical concept car design: it is not equipped with a conventional central control screen, the overall environment in the car is like a luxury home theater, and the chairs similar to two-seat sofas can be separated from the middle position. In addition, the battery modules of the new car will be distributed around the car, so the interior space is not affected by the battery pack, and the flat floor can make you have a more comfortable riding experience.

Self-driving electric vehicles are expected to be launched in four years

Bara also revealed that GM and its holding subsidiary Cruise plan to launch a self-driving electric car to consumers as early as around 2025.

She said last May that the company believes it will launch self-driving cars for individual consumers in the years after 2025, rather than fleet operators and ride-hailing services.

In pursuing multiple paths simultaneously, GM and Cruise are gaining significant technical expertise and experience, she said Wednesday, and we are working to launch retail personal self-driving cars at the fastest speed. In fact, our goal is to launch the first self-driving cars around 2025.

Given the setbacks in the development of driverless cars in recent years, GM's timeline for launching self-driving cars seems somewhat radical. Cruise originally planned to commercialize an automated ride-hailing fleet in San Francisco in 2019, but has since postponed those plans indefinitely to conduct further testing and obtain the required licenses.

Bara confirmed again on Wednesday that Cruise now expects the above plans to materialize in the coming months. The company applied for the last license needed to operate commercially in November last year.