DETROIT – General Motors CEO and Chair Mary Barra on Thursday stated she has no plans to retire any time quickly as she tries to make sure the corporate’s transformation is on “a superb path.”

Barra, who’s the longest tenured CEO exterior of the corporate’s founder, has been requested about retirement for a number of years. The questions have grown as executives of opponents have come and gone underneath Barra’s more than 10-year tenure main GM.

“I am having a whole lot of enjoyable, and I need to be certain we’ve our transformation on a superb path,” she stated throughout a fireplace chat at a Detroit Financial Membership assembly. “So, I am younger and in good well being, I’ve bought a supportive household, so I do not assume I am headed anyplace quickly.”

Many potential successors inside GM have come and gone throughout Barra’s tenure. A number of left the corporate for different alternatives, whereas others retired or left the corporate for unspecified causes.

Barra, 62, reiterated she serves on the pleasure of the GM board and that she continues to have “enjoyable.” She stated she is working by “essentially the most thrilling time” for the automotive business throughout her profession.

GM, like different automakers, is investing billions of {dollars} into all-electric autos, regardless of client adoption coming more slowly than many expected only a couple years in the past.

The Detroit automaker is also attempting to relaunch its Cruise autonomous car enterprise after it ceased public operations following an Oct. 2 accident by which a pedestrian in San Francisco was dragged 20 ft by a Cruise robotaxi.

Cruise and EVs, together with software-defined autos and providers, have been among the many largest potential development areas underneath Barra, who turned CEO in January 2014.