WORLD EXPO SHANGHAI: "DRIVE TO 2030"

Urban Expansion: GM's Sustainable Urban Mobility Forums Focus on the Future Of Transportation as 60% of the World Population Will Live In Cities in 20 Years




Experts Discuss Personal Mobility, New Urban Design,
Energy Diversity, Vehicles of the Future, and More

*Highlights of Conference of
Futuristic Vehicles in Urban Environs*

Shanghai, China, May 2010: As the population of the world migrates from rural and suburban areas to cities, the pathway to sustainable urban mobility begins now... in Shanghai.

At the World Expo Shanghai, GM is hosting a crucial series of conferences: the "Drive to 2030" Sustainable Urban Mobility Series - which clearly defines the challenges and solutions for future urban transportation and aims to develop a "road map" for sustainable mobility. In the year 2030, it is estimated that 60 percent of the world's population will live in cities.




Six forums will be held over the next six months at the SAIC-GM Pavilion at Expo 2010. Each of the forums will include a distinguished lineup of speakers and panelists from China and around the world. Participants will include academics, members of the business community, government officials and representatives of non-profit organizations.

The first forum was the "The Pathway to Sustainable Mobility" wherein a select panel reviewed the issues and challenges facing society on the path toward sustainable urban mobility.

GM and its Chinese partner, SAIC, are the joint global automobile partner of World Expo 2010 Shanghai. Under the theme of "Drive to 2030," they are introducing their vision of a future in which driving will be free from emissions, accidents, petroleum and congestion, as well as more enjoyable and fashionable than ever before.

Unlike today's mechanically driven vehicles that are powered by the internal combustion engine and energized by petroleum, future automobiles will have electrically driven vehicle architectures powered by electronic motors and batteries/fuel cells energized by electricity and hydrogen and electronically controlled. In addition, the cars of the future will have new telematics, sensing, and control technologies that will enable them to connect to the infrastructure, communicate with each other, and even drive themselves.

The overall theme of World Expo 2010 Shanghai is "Better City, Better Life."

Viewers can log onto: www.gmexpo2010.com

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[Momo5775]

We have the technology. We can use something else than oil. But we don't.