It was a great business plan...spend billions of dollars to design and build vehicles no one wants to buy. What could go wrong?
Noticed my two neighbors that had EVs - were bragging about them, one had the special electrical outlet installed for the fast charge - have now switched back to gas-powered cars.
Likely GMs management was looking at subsidies. If they believed the public in large numbers “wanted” these vehicles, they’re fidiots.
If sales are so good, why are dealers refusing to take new stock? Why are EV spending more time on dealer lots than are ICE?
The problem was that it started with a ridiculous premise.
Biden just needs to BAN ALL ICE powered Vehicles from Federal Properties and force all Federal Employee’s and Contractors to buy an EV, to save the planet of course.
Jennifer Ruotolo had borrowed the electric vehicle from the dealership while her own car was getting repaired.
https://www.the-sun.com/motors/9372114/ev-fire-mercedes-florida-home-destroyed/
Many of us have been warning for years that EV's are not a good solution for most people's needs... and that they come with risks.
How robust is the resale market on used EVs? Bueller?
Govt Motors is partnered with a scorpian to make the biggest boondoggle in history.
GM can’t get the new ZO6 out of the barn either without boatloads of problems.
I was shocked how many are being reported on corvette forum
GM went off the rails by hiring Mary and then by keeping her for so long.
Just give me a clean diesel car without all the can-bus BS and I’ll put my own Pioneer Super Tuner in it. It’s a car, not a social media device sheesh.
according to the article:
gm subs out to an inexperienced company, the design and manufacture of the most complex battery pack assembly machine in the world, one that has never been designed, built, or used by anyone in the world before, and yet refuses to hire any battery engineers from “outside” ... yeah, that’s the ticket! ... we’ll sub out the world’s most complex black-box assembly machine that the future of our whole gazillion dollar company is dependent upon, but not have any engineers that know anything about it ...
i guess that’s the kind of “thinking” you get with DEI “management” ...
”…wireless battery-management system”So bad guys can hack your battery system, upload new firmware, start fires, make the battery not charge, overcharge, etc?
It’s a shame. GM’s folly at essentially going “all in” on EVs has resulted a very limited, narrowly appealing fleet of gasoline-engine vehicles.
I recently started considering a new car. I’ve never been an SUV guy. I looked at GM’s offerings in the area of sedans, a segment that was their bread-and-butter for decades. Now? They’ve got a woefully underpowered, 4-cylinder Chevy Malibu and some nose-bleed-priced Cadillacs. That’s freakin’ it. They’ve essentially raised the white flag and surrendered the category to the Japanese, Koreans and Germans.
Next to the GM plant in Spring Hill, TN ( old Saturn plant) Ultium is building a Huge battery factory for EVs.
It’s probably 75-80% finished . At least on the outside. It really is large. Lots of land being used.
Wonder what will happen to it. I’d think they’d have to finish it at this point.
Woke broke. Not really that difficult to understand