The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition General Motors is rediscovering the importance of gas-powered trucks and big sport-utility vehicles, and investors could not be happier. The Globe's David Berman writes, however, could GM's move away from electric vehicles could hurt the company over the longer term. This week, it was all cheers after the automaker delivered upbeat quarterly financial results. GM will produce more full-sized SUVs with internal combustion engines at its Orion Assembly in Michigan, which had previously been envisioned as an EV plant. North America's legacy automakers appear to be falling behind the EV production efforts of Chinese manufacturers, which pumped out more than 11 million EVs last year. If Chinese manufacturers are already ahead, with cheaper vehicles and a vast operational scale that promises to lower prices, GM may be surrendering the future to the likes of China's BYD Company. Sure, North American automakers can point to lacklustre consumer demand for EVs and inconsistent government support. But demand would likely get a significant boost with cheaper EVs that could make the switch from gas to electric more attractive to more people. The world is going electric; GM is not.