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.
Yes, but the market cap for EV’s (i.e. - those who desire them) is much smaller than that for ICE vehicles. Putting all your eggs into one basket (especially a new one) is a big problem (see Chevy Bolt recalls).
I am more an “all of the above” person and let the consumer decide but I will say that ANY person in our government who promotes this technology for our military should never have anything to do with our governance again. There is stupid and there is dangerously stupid. Putting children on electric buses made by a company with no real history of EV production is not only stupid, its dangerous.
Imagine your young child on a bus that fails like this (thankfully driver got everyone off this bus) on some rural road or a bridge....... what could go wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r-yN8SugWM
I was not aware of standing demand for so many vehicles. I don’t see a sarc tag /s.
Is that standing demand accompanied by the ability to purchase them?
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
I wonder how much of that standing demand is anticipated government orders for the vehicles that may never materialize by being funded?
Since GM has gone “all in” on EVs, I am skeptical on their figures for EV popularity. Annnd, after years of planning and preparation, can a lack of battery production be the whole reason for their anemic EV sales?