Yes, all companies try to over blow themselves and their products but I cannot think of ANY American company that is a bigger OFFENDER of that than General Motors. Or as we like to call them General Mediocrity.
When I worked at Apple in the 80's even our President Mike Spindler used to say in his keynotes that ever their name was wrong. That in this day and age it should be SPECIFIC Motors.
That said, they're at it again and even HARDER than in the past.
This time 'claiming' leadership in an 'EV future' when virtually everything so far in the space is either a failure (The Volt) or has had MAJOR problems (The Bolt).
On tap? The Silverado EV (already a disappointment in the order banks), the Lyriq (what Cadillac loyalist actually WANTS ONE?) and the Hummer EV (certainly will not sell in the type of volumes they need to keep afloat).
So we ask WHERE is this leadership going to come from?
One of our readers (TheBelltower) posted this comment:
"Because while they’ve claimed that GM’s future is electric, they’ve shown no actual leadership doing it. The Hummer looks nice. But a six-figure 9,000lb passenger vehicle with a 200kWh battery? Please. Show some expertise that translates into excellent vehicles, and GM will be rewarded by investors."
Here's our one last question about this to prove our point...
NAME the upcoming GM EV that will ACTUALLY sell 200k+ units a year?
Good luck...
Now don't get us wrong. We LOVE seeing American companies succeed and do well. But where is the big win here for GM? We cannot see ANY way forward for them as LEADERS in the EV space. They're DREAMING.
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