Hello and welcome to another episode of the Fully Charge Show podcast.

As you can tell, I'm probably not in the UK at the moment recording this.

I'm actually in my sister-in-law's dining room in Brisbane.

And I've just had an amazing conversation with a wonderful woman who works for General Motors.

In fact, she is the CEO of General Motors in Australia and New Zealand.

And she's returned fairly recently from the United States

where she's worked for the last 10 years at the very tippy, tippy top of the General Motors Corporation.

And they're just about to launch the Cadillac Lyric in Australia and we are driving it in a couple of weeks time and I've never been in one. I'm really excited to see it.

So it was very interesting to catch up with her.

We're in Australia obviously for the Everything Electric show that is on in March.

There'll be more information about that at a moment.

But it's been a really interesting visit because of the very rapidly shifting

Australian automotive market.

One of the things that we didn't mention in the recording, but is the introduction of the new

vehicle efficiency standard that was brought into Australia literally a couple of weeks ago,

which means that finally Australia is catching up with the vast majority of the rest of the world other than Russia

who do have some standards on tailpipe emissions on exhaust pipe gases

finally here now new cars have to tie in more tightly with that which is what is also encouraging the enormously rapid uptake of

electric vehicles in Australia but we were here to discuss General Motors and

their history and their incredible you know achievements over the last many

well I don't know over a hundred years and their their role now in Australia

in the very rapidly expanding Australian electric vehicle market.

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