General Motors CEO Mary Barra said Wednesday the automaker is aligned with President-elect Trump's goal of boosting American manufacturing, despite tensions with him when he was first in the White House. Why it matters: Trump is expected to pursue a wide range of policies that would directly affect the auto industry.

Certainly, GM wasn’t alone in looking at the rise of Tesla and China’s electric automakers and saying, “How hard can this be?”, only to get crushed by reality. But adding the zero-emission dreams of America’s largest automaker—and one that once vowed to go all-electric by 2035 —to that graveyard felt especially bleak.