Posted on 02/20/2021 3:49:17 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
General Motors Co. GM 0.79% is betting its future on electric cars. By mid-decade it plans to spend $27 billion on manufacturing 30 electric models and developing driverless cars. By 2035, it expects to have phased out gasoline-engine options completely and to be selling only electric vehicles, a technology that currently generates about 2% of sales and no profit for the company.
Planning for this transformation at the factory level is the responsibility of Gerald Johnson, a GM lifer who took over global manufacturing operations in 2019, and who is spearheading a $2.2 billion gut rehab of a factory in Detroit, recently renamed Factory Zero, to serve as GM’s electric-vehicle hub. Two more conversions of North American factories for production of electric vehicles, or EVs, are in the works.
Mr. Johnson, 58 years old, calls it the most far-reaching strategic shift he has seen in his career at GM, which he began 40 years ago as an intern.
“There has always been incremental change,” he says. “This is transformative.”
GM factories around the world employ more than 100,000 workers. Some plants exist solely to assemble gas-powered engines and transmissions that won’t be needed if the company successfully reaches its 2035 target, portending big changes for both workers and GM’s factory footprint.
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Another American icon down the toilet. We had a 1957 Chevy 210 and it had a hidden overdrive which I found and used.
Then my mother got a 1972 Chevy Nova with a surprise in it - a heavy racing engine (about 270+ HP) instead of a lesser one of about 175 HP or so.
She was the “Little Old Lady of Baltimore” and could/did blow off the road any challengers and slugs. LOVED IT!
We had a 1970 Chevy wagon for both our family business and then when I had kids. It finally died with over 215,000 miles on it. A wonderful and reliable car.
I guess the next generation of Chevy electric cars will explode if there is an electrical storm and lightning strikes near it.
Guess who will not be buying a Chevy, ever. Sold out by stupidity and greed.
I’m guessing folks would continue to buy electric, hybrids too if they are produced. I’m talking anything internally combusted.
I got nothing against Prius. Loved my wife’s 2014. But she loved the 2020 Grand Cherokee more.
Does this mean that with thirty new models they going to bring back brands like eOldsmobile and ePontiac? Will we have eChevrolet, eBuick, and eCadillac? Or will it be the same game except with electric motors. You know, change the body panel creases a little and hang some different chrome on it.
GM = Gimme Money
Don’t think that they aren’t working on using the transponder on your car, that states are using to pay tolls, that they won’t use them to track your vehicle once the technology allows for it.
Electric cars are just easier to convert for this purpose at the moment.
GM will become too big & too green & too woke to fail. They’ll be bailed out.
The volt was discontinued, replaced by a pair of all-electric Bolts.
Let me guess...
Your friend lives in Texas?
GM cannot compete with the German and Korean rivals
The Germans have captured the high end and the Koreans have captured the low end.
The UAW is killing them
I’ll be 95
Our civic will be 37
When cars become driverless, would we still need to buy insurance?
by 2035, there may be a home nuclear generator and battery charger
——EVs will prove their worth and thrive, or they will not ——
EV’s will be used as small commuting vehicles for limited use and short distances.
“What was the effect of 30 below on her car’s range?”
It’s complicated.
Well before the snow arrives here in the Chicago area we are forced on ‘winter gas’ to save the earth. It is shite gas, everyone’s MPG drops. But somehow is good for the planet?
Mpg drops from in the fifties to the forties.
When the temperature drops into the single digits and wife likes to warm up the interior and melt the frost off the windows before driving , no scraping required...
From mid-fifties to 42-45 MPG. It is a Prius V the wagon version (a bit larger), seldom recognized, a stealth prius?
Well, it does have a large “ZERO TO SIXTY——EVENTUALLY”, bumper sticker, free from friends(?).
After it became know that the quarter time was a bit better than one of their Ram diesels.
NB: It is my wife’s car but she allows me to drive on occasion, and I like it.
Currently, I see it as the second-best car we ever had.
And gaining on our beloved #1 Suburban that we drove to Alaska and all four corners of the USA, plus many parts unknown.
And, with gas at $25 and 90% of gas stations closed, your Civic will be a neighborhood curiosity sitting on blocks in the driveway. Maybe you’ll take it out a couple times a year to reminisce about the good old days.
Americans won’t need internal combustion engines. Being crammed into Soviet style housing blocks in the big cities, they can use public transport (if they have the proper papers). The few left in the country will be serfs on collective farms. They won’t be going anywhere for anything.
I live in PA, north of Philly. We get bitter cold air temps, first few weeks of January. 0 to 15 degrees.
It probably gets 20 percent less miles in cold weather. If I dont pre-warm the batteries, and its like 15 degrees, it barely moves. Very little power. But I pre-warm for about 10 minutes, and its perfect. I set the car seats to low heat and the heater to 68 degrees, low speed fan. So on a hot day, maybe 200 miles on a charge, with the 2 gallons of gas. On a cold day, maybe 150 miles.
Its not for everybody, but think of the maintenance saving.
I use almost no braking. I can stop this thing just using the regeneration. I can drive this thing for 50 miles, and never touch the breaks. So, virtually no break jobs. Period. No oil changes. Transmission, no gear changes, just press the pedal. Fast or slow.
So Maintenance, it’s just batteries. Expensive, but going down in price every year.
So I laughed at these cars too. Then I took a test drive after talking to a guy who has a chevy bolt. He loves it.
After driving it, and the thought of almost zero maintenance, I said thats it, buy one.
If you live in Minnesota and drive 200 miles a day, in the cold, its not for you. I typically do less than 150 a day. But I will be driving it for about 1000 miles in a few weeks. I’ll stop a few times for a half hour for a DC charge. 80 percent charge in a half hour. Then overnight charges at hotels. That the key. When you sleep, the car is always recharging. So its always fully charged, every day. Its a mind set, you get used to it really quick.
If I had the 40K, I’d drop it on a new electric Volkswagon suv. It looks awesome. Maybe next year!
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