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I stumbled on this article today from a link elsewhere.

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"Understandably, GM has prioritized the other high-profile EV in its portfolio, the Cadillac Lyriq, which started sales almost a year ago. Even so, it has only produced 1,000 Lyriqs since production began in March 2022."

Is production of only 1,000 vehicles in a year for an EV model low for a type of automobile which is supposed to be in big demand? So, are EVs really not in that much of a demand by the general population? Can a sector of the industry survive if only about 5 percent of the consumers are even interested in their product? How long can they keep manufacturing EVs if no one is interested in buying them?

1 posted on 03/12/2023 11:57:33 AM PDT by CFW
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They aren’t called “Government Motors” for nothing.

They are every bit as corrupt and incompetent as the US feral government.


2 posted on 03/12/2023 11:59:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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GM can’t force anyone to buy this EV nonsense.


3 posted on 03/12/2023 12:00:00 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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Only the PRODUCERS of EVs now realize just how small their market is...and Tesla owns most of it.

Nothing but loss awaits them.


4 posted on 03/12/2023 12:00:05 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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You are creating electric Carson Detroit. The plant cannot run without electricity created from fossil fuels. Irony is great here.


5 posted on 03/12/2023 12:02:57 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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Once General Motors became GOVERNMENT Motors, they necessarily had to adopt the woke, Neo-marxist sloganeering and culture.

The next economic crisis, which we have only just begun to enter, has already exposed the destructiveness of this.


6 posted on 03/12/2023 12:03:00 PM PDT by PGR88
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Wokety brokety.


7 posted on 03/12/2023 12:03:05 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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Fellow Freepers, I see an economic collapse dead ahead. Be prepared...


8 posted on 03/12/2023 12:03:11 PM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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Will we have to bail them out AGAIN?


9 posted on 03/12/2023 12:03:46 PM PDT by ryderann
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Ford is building a huge battery plant here in Tennessee.

Unfortunately they are doing this because it’s what the government wants not what consumers want to buy.

This whole EV madness is not the result of natural market forces.


11 posted on 03/12/2023 12:06:32 PM PDT by packagingguy
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Mary Bara and her dad Yogi.


12 posted on 03/12/2023 12:07:19 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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In one of their latest investment announcements they expect to spend far and away the majority of it in, wait for it,

THEIR NEW V-8 PRODUCTION PLANT

Only a fraction will be earmarked for EV production efforts.

Fascinating.


14 posted on 03/12/2023 12:09:20 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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Screw any entity involved with SAIC Motor. Any GM product should be shunned due to their Chinese masters.


15 posted on 03/12/2023 12:11:13 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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EV = Not Wanted


17 posted on 03/12/2023 12:12:32 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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GM. I used to purchase their ...er...product.
Then, I discovered that Japan made cars that actually fit together, retained their paint, and worked.


18 posted on 03/12/2023 12:12:51 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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Nikola Semi
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/nikola-begins-production-of-battery-electric-tre-semitruck.html


19 posted on 03/12/2023 12:16:14 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGAA)
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Awwwww. And they’re wanting to dump 650 million into a lithium mine in NV. Hope they lose a bunch more.


21 posted on 03/12/2023 12:18:06 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Is production of only 1,000 vehicles in a year for an EV model low for a type of automobile which is supposed to be in big demand? So, are EVs really not in that much of a demand by the general population?

You misunderstand. GM has standing orders for over 200,000 EVs, they're just having trouble manufacturing them, so they're unable to cash in. It's a corporate execution failure, not lack of demand.

22 posted on 03/12/2023 12:20:00 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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GM has been in “deep trouble” for decades. The unions destroyed them.


26 posted on 03/12/2023 12:28:39 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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This is the result when government controls industry. Enjoy your socialism Government Motors.


30 posted on 03/12/2023 12:51:11 PM PDT by dznutz
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Wait, the E-vette will get them out of the hole.


31 posted on 03/12/2023 12:54:14 PM PDT by Colo9250
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