General Motors admits it has lost – so far – about $3.3 billion on EVs. It is apparently not enough to persuade GM that EVs are losers.
“We continue to believe in EVs,” GM’s CEO Mary Barra said the other day. Adding that “our portfolio brought almost 100,000 new customers to GM in 2025.” That these customers didn’t add a cent to GM’s bottom line doesn’t seem to matter to Barra. “We know these drivers do not often go back to gas, so we will continue executing our plan to reduce EV-related costs and we remain confident in our path to EV profitability.”
Oh really?
Then why are so many manufacturers – including GM – dialing back on their EV offerings or cancelling them altogether? GM announced – just before Barra’s announcement – that it would end production of its Bolt EV shortly after bringing fort the latest iteration of it, a brand-new 2027 iteration that will be offered in “limited numbers” for the 2027 model year. Then it will be kiboshed in favor of a Buick that isn’t battery-powered.
Dodge had to rush into the breach a Charger with an engine – to prevent the cancelling of Dodge, which is still quite possible. An entire lineup of Chrysler EVs has been cancelled. The “electrified” Ram 1500 is dead on the table, too.
Perhaps the most spectacular example of this drawing-back is Ford’s cutting bait on the “electrified” F-150 Lightning, which it now admits has cost the company something on the order of $20,000 each per “sale.”
Never mind all that!
GM intends to “invest” more in EVs. Among these “investments” are plans for (here it comes, again) “new battery technologies,” including “lower cost” lithium manganese-rich (LMR) chemistries. The problem with such “investments” is they take no cognizance of the other problem, which has nothing to do with the cost of EV battery packs but rather the time it takes to recharge them. You have probably heard about EV battery packs in development that can be charged in “only” 10 minutes or so – as if doubling the time it takes vs. the time it takes to fully fuel a gas-engine vehicle constitutes some kind of improvement.
Perhaps it does, in the way that gas costs “only” abut $3 per gallon now – vs. $4 a year ago – constitutes an improvement. Never mind that gas used to cost $1.50 per gallon.
The problem, though, isn’t cost.
Let’s say GM figures out a way to make an “affordable” battery that can be fully charged (not just partially charged) in five minutes or less. It will be something like a Saturn V rocket without propellant in that absent a way to impart the charge quickly, it will not matter how quickly it could be charged – hypothetically. Even if it costs about the same as an otherwise equivalent gas-engine car, there will still be that time cost – and the fact is most people aren’t interested in paying it.
To get a battery fully charged in five minutes in actuality would require an almost magical supply of electricity, magically delivered. We are talking ’bout enough electricity to power a shopping mall – or a small town – to feed a small handful of EV kiosks capable of imparting that kind of power into an EV’s battery in ten minutes or less, let alone five minutes or less. That kind of power would require infrastructure that does not exist as well as generating capacity that does not exist.
Will “investments” be made in that, too?
No doubt there are some who would love to make them – with other people’s money, of course. That is just what was done by – or under the auspices of – the whispy-haired ancient malingerer who tottered in front of the presidential podium from 2020-2024. His successor tried to pull the plug on that, but a court just ruled the spice must flow.
Even, so – it will take a lot more “spice” for this to ever be feasible on a mass scale. No one – at GM at least – seems to ask why the quest (and cost-no-object) to try to make it so? But there is an answer that may explain the otherwise inexplicable.
It is that GM see its future in places such as Chyna, where the “investments” are being made – and plenty of spice is flowing. America is a tapped-out place and so are Americans. There are only 320 million or so of the latter and only about 15 million of them buy new vehicles, electric or not. But there are about 1.5 billion Chinese. There are also lots of Europeans. More finely, Europe is faster-along emulating China than the U.S. is. EVs are all but required in many European countries and that is why Mercedes and VW/Audi other European brands “invested” even more than GM (and Ford) have in EVs.
They desperately need for those “investments” to pan out.
GM – and Ford – no doubt hope to recoup the costs of their “investments” so far – and are now in a holding mode, waiting for Trump to destroy MAGA and thus usher in a regime more friendly to such “investments.”
This is probably the undertow of Barra’s comments and also those of GM’s CFO Paul Jacobson. “We have not impaired our existing retail portfolio of EVs,” he said the other day. “We are working to improve the profitability of these vehicles through new battery technologies, engineering improvements and operational efficiencies.”
So the “electrified” vampire isn’t dead yet. And it will take more than a stake through his heart to assure he’s dead for good.
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The New York Post lowers the boom on the burnt-over aftermath of EeeVee Fever:
‘My colleague and I analyzed seven companies. We picked the Big Three US brands — GM, Ford and Stellantis (Chrysler/Jeep/AMC) — and the two European giants, Mercedes and Volkswagen. We excluded Tesla from our analysis because its profits are padded by sales of regulatory credits to other automakers and by its other businesses.
‘Losses for the seven automakers have totaled nearly $114 billion. We estimate that between 2022 and the third quarter of 2025 (including the write-downs at Ford and GM), the legacy automakers lost a combined $83.6 billion on their EV businesses. Meanwhile, Lucid and Rivian combined for losses of about $30.2 billion.
‘We also estimated the per vehicle losses for the automakers and extrapolated that the seven car companies produced 5.4 million EVs between 2022 and the third quarter of 2025. They incurred, on average, an astonishing loss of $20,887 per EV sold.
‘The only really surprising thing about these losses is how unsurprising they are. The history of the EV is a century of failure tailgating failure.’
https://nypost.com/2026/02/01/opinion/us-european-car-brands-have-lost-114b-on-evs-as-idiocy-abounds-in-electric-market/
As I’ve said before, EeeVee Fever will get its own chapter in a future edition of Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
Likewise, the ongoing psychotic compulsion of Lightning Jim and EeeVee Mary to bitterly cling to the smoking dregs of their EeeVee businesses likely will be designated in DSM-VI as a malady called “Barra’s Lurgy” or “Jim’s Chimera”– a tragic denouement to two promising careers. 🙁
There definitely isn’t 1.5B Chinamen. Probably half that, esp after decades of ‘one child’ policy. It’s all smoke and mirrors to make them look powerful. And their ‘middle class’ isn’t the future either. They’re already having Rust Belt problems of factories being shipped to cheaper areas like Vietnam, Cambodia, etc.
As for GM and the ee-vees here in the USA. If our ‘Acura’ Chevy EV is an indication of anything, they are hot garbage. An endless stream of software problems, dash lights on, no heat, no charging, failed parts that are brand new.
There’s a software update we can apply to the ‘infotainment’ radio unit, but it will brick it, every time. This has been an issue for six months. No fix, no communication from GM about it.
Almost all the parts come from Mexico. There isn’t a sticker on it, but I would bet money they outsource software coding to India. Costs are shaved to the bone because they’re already losing money selling it.
“To get a battery fully charged in five minutes in actuality would require an almost magical supply of electricity, magically delivered.”
Magical indeed. Because it doesn’t exist, and it never will.
Mary Barra knows that. Every engineer knows that, and EVil Mary has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering. She knows that even a battery 10x better in every way than today’s batteries — always just around the corner — would never solve EVs’ long charge-time problem. Currently, hydrocarbon fuels supply most of the energy used for transportation. To replace that with electrical energy would require expanding the USA’s electrical generating capacity by about 50%. That would be a huge and expensive multi-decade undertaking. But generating that additional energy would be the relatively easy part. The much harder part would be distributing that energy to ~200 thousand charging stations. Boston’s Big Dig 1000x. Oh, you want to “fast-charge” at home? — That’s another 100 million electrical upgrades.
FedGov’s pushing EVs on us — as Eric has long and well said here — is not to save the world; it is to limit our mobility and thus make us easier to control.
EVil Mary is a well-paid actrix relishing her role in this.
In terms that EeeVee Mary might dimly remember from when she was a lowly ‘engineer,’ to charge a 100 kWh baaaaattery to 80% in five minutes is gonna need 1,200 amps at 800 volts.
I can’t be arsed to calculate the python-like diameter of heavy water-cooled cable needed to deliver such a massive jolt. But the current surge would be sufficient to brownout a small town.
With data centers glomming onto the creaky US grid like leeches, charging a tiny market of power-thirsty EeeVees is a deranged fantasy. I’d like to be EeeVee Mary’s speechwriter, as I subtly introduce a subversive change of tone. *takes another slow toke*
WTF ever happened to the good old electric chair? Some corporate slackers in the C-suite ought to be ‘Westinghoused,’ dontcha reckon?
And let’s not forget the malinvestment for unreliables over the last 30 years. All that money to “replace” coal fired plant capacity. Of course it didn’t, only in so-called nameplate capacity – the wind turbine or solar array might have 300 MW on the name plate of the generator, but it ain’t producing 300 MW unless there’s goldilocks conditions.
If all that malinvestment would have been put into nuclear* we might actually have excess capacity to support new uses like EVs (which will never be the best way to take advantage of electrified transportation) and AI datacenters. Instead we’ve maintained a “net zero” capacity factor and made up for the shortfall with LED lighting. Good job!
*Remember that the post-Soviet collapse price on uranium was so cheap it wasn’t worth the effort to extract it. In no small part due to the Clinton’s cornering the market on Russian weapons grade U-235 reprocessed into civilian reactor fuel. Talk about energy too cheap to meter!
The station I often buy gas at has 20 pumps, and each pump can deliver ~9 gallons/minute. Let’s say a typical ICE vehicle gets 25 miles/gallon; that’s a re-fill (charge) rate of 225 miles/minute. And let’s say a typical EV gets 10 miles/kWh. In order for the EV to gain 225 miles per minute — and thus match the charge rate of our supplanted ICE vehicle — each EV would have to charge at 1350 kW. To charge 20 EVs at the same time? — that’s a total of 27 megawatts! Every charging station will require a substation fed by a high-voltage transmission line. Just like a big huge factory. ¡Siempre adelante!
Correction: Assuming 10 miles/kWh for the EV was far too charitable. Now I’m seeing that the average EV gets only ~3 miles/kWh. So our substation would have to handle 100 megawatts — enough for three big huge factories.
Morning, StraitGate!
Yup – and these EV people (I mean the ones high up, as for example Barra at GM) know all this. Ergo, they know it’s never going to replace the current system of masses owning their own vehicles. It is going to be a very different kind of system.
In a note of irony, Evil Mary also has a BS in BS. How fitting.
This world- especially this country, is being run by CHILDREN in business, scientific, academic and political spheres. Seven year-olds proclaiming that they believe in Santa Claus, and the magical powers of face masks and filthy dangerous drugs to ward off the evil spirits.
What’s even worse, is that society at-large believes in the same things, and votes in the boardrooms and “polling places” [Places where you get poled] to perpetuate the rule of the pedocracy. No wonder Washington is so full of pedophiles…..
A company in Commiefornia is converting vintage Broncos — the original ones from sixty years ago — into stinking EeeVees.
https://kindredmotorworks.com/models/kindred-ev-bronco/heritage-edition
Scandalous. Both the sellers and buyers should be prosecuted.
Disgusting. I’d rather see the Top Gear/Grand Tour guys destroy them in a fiery, pointless episode. They are POWs being paraded around to demoralize the other cars.
I saw a Chevy Spark EV for sale ($2500), the sign says the battery is down to 40%. I looked up the battery – GM discontinued it. Aftermarket rebuild not so cheap:
“The Chevrolet Spark EV uses a lithium-ion battery pack, with the 2014 model featuring a 19 kWh capacity that provides an estimated range of about 82 miles. If you need a replacement, options are available for remanufactured battery packs, typically costing around $12,500.”
If GM still believes in EVs then how come they don’t make the battery pack for the EVs they sold? GM cares Goyim, believe, believe.
That reminded me of HP, which stopped product support for their laptops as soon as they stopped making that model.
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This latest essay by Caitlin Johnstone makes me laugh, a food delivery robot thing navigates around the homeless guy passed out (or dead) on the sidewalk:
https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/meditations-on-a-delivery-robot-steering-to-avoid-a-homeless-man-on-the-sidewalk/
General Motors Corp went out of business on 6/1/09.
General Motors COMPANY began operations after that – of course, having been gifted all the intellectual property from the real GM – by the Feds.
The Big 3 all should have been allowed to go bankrupt (which Ford also would have done, had they not secured GOVERNMENT BACKED LOANS FROM THE DEPT OF ENERGY – instead of taking the bail out deal like GM and Chrysler. Which was done so that the Ford family could still have an income stream.)
I’ve changed my mind about EVs. Am now for mandatory universal adoption. The amount of silver used in the newer batteries will make silver un-obtainium. Thus breaking the US dollar and his agent JPMorgue. The empire of lies could be eliminated without firing a shot. Being hoisted on its own petard, while shooting itself in the foot, would be the greatest example of an empire committing self suicide ever in the history of empires.
If ten million people (who don’t already own silver) went out and bought 4 or 5 oz of the stuff, it would accomplish the same thing. But thats probably more work than ten million people are capable of doing to get their freedom back.
On the flip-side of this, LiFePO4 batteries are less expensive than never, ever before, if you’re looking to go off-grid.
I’m poised to buy a 30 kWh battery pack to power my lab and garage for ~$2,400. With regards to capacity, lithium iron phosphate batteries (the type that don’t self-immolate) are beginning to cost well-under most of their lead-acid counterparts, while outperforming them handily for most applications.
At these prices, I’m ever more seriously considering building an EV of my own, at least down the road a couple years. I’m certain it could be done for a fraction of the cost of the shit the car-tels are selling. Such a thing could serve for probably 90-95% of my travel needs, should I be able to somehow have it registered. At very least, it would be a fun engineering project.
Yeah, I converted my auction buy GEM car to LiFePO batteries, lost hundreds of lbs, gained performance and range, and saved about $800. We can run it all over our small town for a month before having to plug it in for a few hours. Local travel only though.
There you have it! If I could only use such a vehicle to get to the nearby towns, and even if I had to use mostly non-government roads, I think it would be a righteous build.
I looked at doing an EV conversion for my RN10 Hilux (1972) bc it’s a) a tiny, lightweight vehicle and b) the engine needed replacement. This was like 10 years ago and the full estimated cost (doing all the work myself) was something like $25-30k! I am certain that costs have come down in some areas, but ultimately I thought, why would I cripple my vehicle and not just replace the engine with a 20R or 22R for like $2k?? It’s a cool project, but I would rather just get an electric golf cart instead of hacking up a cool vintage vehicle.
Hey Vandall,
Yeah, I wouldn’t want to Frankenstein a classic like that. Firstly, you’re right, why dispose of such a solid engine possibility? The modifications necessary would probably be a huge pain. I’m not sure what the cost was about in your case, but battery costs have come down dramatically. I imagine you were nickel-and-dimed on all the bits and pieces, and it would certainly cost you to try and maintain the original power and range. If I build such a thing, I want to keep it below $10k.
Slightly off topic, but still a technology pushed on us, regardless of market demand: self steering.
I recently inherited my Father-In-Law’s Santa Cruz. I’ve been driving it occasionally (until we sell it), and found out it has “self steering”. When turned “off” you will still feel a nudge when you veer NEAR the almighty painted stripe. You don’t even have to go over the line for it to nudge.
When it’s turned on, you can take your hands off the wheel and rely on it to keep you on the road. Keep your hand off the wheel for too long and it freaks out, and starts screeching at you. It’s like my Mother-In-Law is riding with me, God rest her soul.
There’s a section of road on my route to work which morphs from a single lane to a lane/bike lane segment. The self steering veered me right into the bike lane portion of the road because it’s stupid and dangerous and didn’t know what to do. If there was a bike rider, he would have been hit.
After my personal experience, I can confidently state the streets are unnecessarily less safe because of these ridiculous technologies. I imagine the average low IQ automaton behind the wheel with access to this tech would be a danger to all of those around.
God help us.
I recently saw a Chevy commercial touting hands-free driving. They showed the driver fixated on the steering wheel itself (i.e. wasn’t looking at where the car was headed) as he removed his hands from it in awe. This sounds horrifying to me.
How is it that anybody can feel troubled by keeping his hands on the wheel to maintain control of a 2-ton vehicle at speed? Is there really a true demand for this nonsense.
With respect to these batteries that can supposedly be fully charged in 10 minutes: How long are said batteries supposed to last? It’s a proven fact that fast charging batteries degrades them sooner than slow charging. So while you may be able to charge up in 10 minutes, your battery will be toast in the next 3-5 years.
But that doesn’t matter because you don’t really own your EV, you rent it either through a lease or a subscription-based Transportation As A Service arrangement.
I wish to draw attention to the embedded picture of the Bolt EV assembly line and the female (?) worker tending to the lead example. How the hell do you get so FAT working on an assembly line?? I would figure with all the movement, you should at least not have multiple cellulite rolls. I would also like to point out that she’s wearing…a face diaper! Go figure….
I noticed that too. Her job is either to oversee the robots, or to repetitively screw in one fastener with a power tool over and over again all day… when she’s not on strike demanding more pay.
The problems with EVs are not technical. Yes, they have short range, weigh too much, take too long to recharge, cost too much, and use dangerous chemistry leading to catastrophic fires. All true and bad enough.
The real problem is they are pandering to that half of the population that lives in cities to the detriment of the half which does not.
America is built around cheap, effective, reliable transportation unlike the rest of the world which has short or very short horizons. Asia was poor with lots of people, so they never had the infrastructure, and even now the average Asian makes few and short car trips. Same for Europe with its oppressive rulers, small countries, and limited roads dating back to Rome.
EVs frankly work great for people who drive 50 miles per day, and for that their performance is more than adequate. But they are a frontal assault on rural America and the American way of life.
“a frontal assault on rural America”
Whom they hate with a passion and want to see dead or assimilated to city life.
I have a sinking feeling that the coming civil war will be just like Red Dawn, but instead of the Russkies parachuting into the heartland it will be paid Antifa thugs dressed in Carhartts sabotaging rural communities. Chaos and lies will be their most effective weapons.
Perhaps read this:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/02/brandon-smith/its-time-to-accept-that-civil-war-2-0-has-already-started/
EV Mary fits Einstein’s definition of insanity – repeating the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
“General Motors admits it has lost – so far – about $3.3 billion on EVs. It is apparently not enough to persuade GM that EVS are losers.”
It’s not THEIR money they’re losing. It’s YOUR money, goy. GM is a de facto agency of the U.S. Government. They build what they are told to build. If they go bankrupt like they did in 2009, government will bail them out with YOUR money.
“Capitalism” today is where the profits are privatized, and the losses are socialized. If GM makes money, the shareholders pocket it. If GM goes bankrupt, they will rob your pocket.
To get a battery fully charged in five minutes in actuality would require an almost magical supply of electricity, magically delivered. – Eric
On that note, my electricity co-op is proposing a demand surcharge for everyone. They already require it for large industries and homes (like Vail ski “chalets”), but this will be extended to small businesses and homes too. They’re going to take a reading of your kW draw at 15 minute intervals (they already do this and it shows up on the bill for informational purposes). The peak time of the month will be charged a $1 per kW, which in my case will usually be $5.80 tacked on to my electric bill. Since I have rooftop solar installed that will be about a 35% increase in my bill. I’ve basically been told to stuff it when I complained. It made me mad enough that I wrote a blog post about it on my Substack. (see I don’t just ramble on to no one in particular here, I have a whole blog for that!)
The reasons given are “to provide upgrades to the system.” So instead of charging someone for an upgraded transformer when they install a level two car charger, they just make us all subsidize it. Or when they get that grant money from O’Biden’s 10 million car chargers plan, that’s just gravy not actually going to pay for the upgraded lines and theoretical new generation necessary.
Why does every “deal” offered by any big company or organization always turn into Vader’s deal with Lando Calrissian? I had a deal they would buy my solar production and let me bank it, allowing me to “prepay” my electric bill for the next 10+ years. Now they want to alter the deal. I guess I better start preying they don’t alter it further.
Prey… Pray… I feel like one and don’t do enough of the other.
Hi RK,
You ask: Why does every “deal” offered by any big company or organization always turn into Vader’s deal with Lando Calrissian?
Well, for the same reason. Because they – Vader, et al – can. Because we are at their mercy.
Thing is they do charge you when you want to upgrade. Just got a proposed service upgrade price to move our old house from 100A to 200A (need a new xfmr on the pole, service was last addressed in the 1970s from the original 1920s service). The transformer is for 4 houses so the utility offered to cover 50%. The four customers can opt for 12.5% or we can pay 50%, they don’t care. My neighbors balked at the 12.5% estimate of $9K each (thus the total cost they say is $72k). It’s not my first rodeo, but the arrogance of the utility is breath taking. I wonder just how many times they get a cluster of customers to bite on this as just the “cost of going EV.”
Of course they do. As they should, if the transformer and drop can’t support the upgrade. But you’re also right that they aren’t at all interested in replacing old stuff proactively either. I was looking at my parent’s house, built in 1961. The power lines and equipment are old. If one were to try and do all the “recommendations” for making it into an all-electric house, abandoning the gas boiler and hot water baseboard for mini-split heat pumps, not only would it cost at least $40K for the multi-zone HVAC system, it would require a massive upgrade to the service drop, the fuse box and probably need to rewire a fair chunk of the inside wiring to bring it all up to “code.” Then you get to start paying for electricity, which I can guarantee is more expensive than gas.
Save the planet by bankrupting the middle class. Oh but there’s a tax break!
What Mary believes is in the future after terrible Trump is gone, you will no longer own any vehicles but lease them via Transportation as a Service (TAAS). The government will subsidize these devices, and you will have to call for a Johnny Cab and pay a monthly fee to the US Treasury extracted directly from your bank account after obtaining the Right to Travel permit (RTP).
Contingent on you being “Up-to-date” on any “recommended” vaccinations probably if the WEF types get their way.
I think this is it, Hans –
Which is why I decided to do the Trans-Am transformation. It may be the last opportunity to do it – and enjoy it. Life is short, so I’m doing it. Banzai!
Not the first that want to believe…
https://tinyurl.com/35h63ht5
What she really said:
“We continue to invest in Politicians to make laws/regs to force ownership of EVs”
Mary Barra saying she continues to belieeeeeeeeeeve in EVs is kind of like people who say they continue to belieeeeeeeeeeve in vaccines despite the truth about COVID and (most if not all) other vaxxes becoming more and more public the past few years.
For some reason, John, your comment reminded me of this one that someone had posted, back when the COVID crap was hot and heavy. I thought it was hilarious, and saved it with all the other EP Auto comments that are also just as good. I do not know who penned it, however. Just like Mary beeeelieeeving in EVs. Funny how history repeats itself.
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I heard about a double vaxed 73 yr old porker with several co morbidities who died, and the doctor told his kin “It could have been worse if he hadn’t been vaccinated “!! Yes folks if unvaccinated and you die… You could end up becoming “double dead”!! Or perhaps even worse “Super dead “!!
Hi Shadow,
COVID also exposed that vaccine mandates are itself a form of tyranny, and yet, there are people who STILL belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve that such mandates (in addition to mask mandates a few years ago) are about “Health”. Just look at the reaction from some of them to someone like Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo calling for an end to ALL childhood vaccination mandates. If government can ORDER people to take X number of vaccines (even experimental ones like we saw under Biden and certain governors), who REALLY OWNS your body? Is it you, or is it the government?
Notice how the only time one has control (is allowed to have) over their body is when a woman wants to have an abortion, or when someone wants to mutilate themselves in the name of transgrnderism.
I’ve noticed that also, Shadow!
And: Many of the same “pro choice” people were among the most strident demanders that everyone submit to having something injected into their bodies.
Eric,
Those claiming to be “pro-choice” who were ironically demanding that EVERYONE take an experimental COVID jab used the argument that pregnancy wasn’t contagious while COVID was to justify their demands, but that argument eventually collapsed. Why? Because it became obvious over time that people who’ve been vaxxed not only could STILL get the dreaded ‘Rona, but were actually MORE likely to get it compared to an unvaxxed person, and there have been numerous studies showing the durability and power of natural immunity in someone who had COVID and recovered; something corporate media, Big Pharma, and the establishment tried to HIDE.
I remember, John!
Of course, if the “vaccines” immunized people, then why would it matter whether some people elected not to get “vaccinated”?
Indeed. I also remember that the Democratic Party was once ALL IN with COVID tyranny (COVID camps for the unvaxxed, severe punishment for the unvaxxed, vaccine passports, etc.). Will they push some form of tyranny again if they regain the House and/ or Senate in the event of “The next pandemic” that we keep hearing about from the globalist sociopaths? And yet, there are people who STILL think that the draconian COVID diktats were about “health”, and are STILL p****d at those who stood up against the COVID regime and refused to comply with nonsensical diktats despite the fact that those who stood up and pushed back were RIGHT, and people who supported the nonsensical diktats (mask mandates, vaxx mandates, lockdowns, etc. ) were 1,000% WRONG.
And you notice, now the jabbed are getting sick, and many have died. Those who survived the jabs are now blaming us un-jabbed for them being sick. “You Did Not Warn Us”, and after years of demanding we be destroyed for not taking said shot. It is never their fault they screw up, it is always someone else’s.
Curious thing isn’t it Shadow? During COVID, people who warned about these experimental COVID jabs and mass vaccination in the middle of a pandemic were invariably smeared as “Purveyors of mis/ disinformation” by those same people. Ironically, they probably also became the same monsters they accused Trump of being in his 1st term as President.
GM should not even exist today remember they where bankrupt and government stole your money to save them when is last time you where stupid and so far in the red and government paid it off for you
I dont know whenever I see her on the financial press I wonder why they put the HR lady in charge of a car company…. it seems like by going the electric car route, she will take GM down the same path of commoditisation and oblivion that GE went down decades ago….
I do agree it seems her job is to keep the company in some sort of holding pattern till Trump (and trumpism/MAGA culture) blows over and things return back to the natural order, the way they have been going for decades (and America becoming more like Europe). Lets see where this goes….
GM- “We Continue to Believe in EVs”
It’s safe to say I don’t believe I’ll be buying a new gm product any time soon. GM believed in quality engineering and products sold at reasonable prices while gm believes in questionable engineering sold at unreasonable prices.
I’m sure that in a future university business course they will talk about this as an example on how to destroy a brand.
The only way this “plan’ has only hope of “succeeding” is if they stuck to selling ICE vehicles in those markets that want them and sold EVs in those markets that are forced or want to buy them. The biggest problem with that strategy is that the Chinese EV manufactures apparently have good products that sell at great prices.
Even if they came up with a ground breaking battery system the only way I could see of making money with it in this country is becoming a supplier to EV companies that need better batteries.
Indeed, Landru –
I just thought of something that touches on this… stay tuned!
I’m with you Landru. It’s a pity cuz I and my family have always been GMC truck buyers.
‘GM sees its future in places such as China’ — eric
It does — even though China, for practical purposes, is a command economy. China has directed its auto makers to produce EeeVees. They sell in massive quantities owing to lack of alternatives.
Whereas EeeVees DON’T sell in the US and other free-ish markets. Yet EeeVee Mary and Lightning Jim Farley remain obsessed with China’s lead in EeeVees. This does not compute.
But even aside from Mary’s EeeVee autism, GM is profoundly mismanaged. Get a load of this:
‘To support generative AI and a higher level of automated driving in future vehicles, GM also will adopt a new centralized computing platform starting in 2028. The software-based architecture bundles all of a vehicle’s core systems, including powertrain, steering, infotainment and safety, using a single, high-speed processor.’
https://www.wardsauto.com/news/gm-ai-plans-debut-eyes-off-driving-super-cruise-cadillac-esclade-iq/803665/
Bad! Wrong! Unacceptable! A centralized chip creates a single point of catastrophic failure, which can even take out the electric steering. WTF is wrong with these people?
I will never buy another new car. And I will sure as hell never buy another GM car. I completely reject its entire technological philosophy. GM begone!
GM is gone replaced by gm and with ideas like this will be gone entirely sooner than we can imagine.
I’ll never own any vehicle with “infotainment”.
Of course Barra believes in EV’s. She will never own one, let alone rely on it exclusively for transportation. She probably does not live anywhere where there is real Winter and cold, either: Making EV’s worthless for reliability of any kind. And also, who cares if GM screws up again (financially)? Hell, us “generous” taxpayers bailed out GM back in 2008, to a tune of $80 billion. Then, they promptly shipped jobs overseas as a “thank you” for keeping her company from going under. Which we should have.
Well, I assume she lives in the Detroit area, which is pretty cold. But it’s doubtful that she drives herself to work in an EV down I-75, she probably has security chauffer her in a gas-powered Cadillac SUV every day.
She’s a party apparatchik, and like all the apparatchiks in the USSA they only drive an EV for show and for virtue-signaling. Cops, security, the presidential motorcade, and the U.S. Army all rely on internal combustion engines, not EVs.