GM shifts EV overseas offensive to Europe, Japan and South Korea

Once-bankrupt U.S. carmaker eyes foreign markets as bottom line improves

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GM is making companywide efforts to push for an EV shift, aiming to stop selling gasoline-powered cars by 2035. (Photo by Takafumi Hotta)

TAKAFUMI HOTTA, Nikkei staff writer

NEW YORK -- U.S. automaker General Motors plans to release electric vehicles overseas, including in Europe, a market from which it had almost completely withdrawn.

The company has downsized most of its overseas operations -- except for China and Latin America -- since it went under in 2009. But as its bottom line improves, it will attempt comebacks in markets it had once left.

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