GM Explains Why An Electric Pickup Truck Will Take Time motor1.com
You know our truck engines are so efficient why would anyone even want an electric truck? Unless they come up with an amazing solution to keep it charged quickly and have a super long range I just don't see it happening for awhile. It will happen but obviously it has to be a superior truck to replace exciting trucks.
If Tesla sold the Bolt, it would sell as well as the Model 3.
If GM sold the Model 3, it would sell as poorly as the Bolt.
Check out GM Bolt EV sales relative to Tesla Model 3....Bolt is left at the start line once again. And we think GM will magically get its act together before the rest of the EV competition comes to market? Not a chance!
It'll take time because GM was caught off-guard by Ford's announcement and immediately decided that GM also needed to SAY there was an electric pickup in the works without there actually being one. GM is starting out behind the competition, as usual.
The people who keep saying electric cars are useless unless you can take them on a 1000 mile road trip are like the dudes with horses who said cars wouldn't take off until you could feed them grass...
GM does not know how to develop anything. The development process has been geared to make sure incompetent managers are in-charge rather than the people who does the real work.
Electric cars are the fast track to bankruptcy 2.0, Mary's follies.
I don't think it's S*it..
I heard 20 min charge time using a supercharger, I would assume that GM may already have the solution but could be very wrong also. If so they should bring what they have out and soon. I drove a Tesla and I have to say that it was gorgeous, I really believe that the internal combustion engine will be available as an option for quiet some time. As for the Chinese and Competitive nature of this chess game well, I would rather have this technology battle going on instead of an actually physical war, my hope is that all people will prosper not just the greedy globalists, corporations and corrupt governments. Having partnership and a global position is good certainly however I do not believe in sharing to much intellectual property or proprietary information with the competition, unless in GM's case they really and truly will not be an American company anymore and will infact be owned and operated by China. Elimination of manufacturing in the US and building more in China servers only the executives and not American, I'm not picking on China just stating a fact, of you don't believe it study up. GM needs to stop pu--y footing around with this electric business...shut up and deliver.
An electric car with a fully charged battery is great!
My big concern with electric is charging network and charging time.
If I go on a road trip and my battery is low, I dont want to see the nearest charging station is 500 miles away. And if I manage to get there, I'll need to spend 4 hours charging the battery to 50%.
Assuming that some id--ts haven't parked their cars in the two parking spaces with chargers for the day while they're at work, so I can't even plug in.
With a gas car, every tiny podunk town in the middle of nowhere has a gas station, and I can fill the tank in less than 10 minutes.
I want to have that same experience with electric.
Kodak was trying to protect lucrative 35mm film sales even though the had a digital camera long before anyone else...
Yeah, go drag your feet on electric. It is literally impossible to catch up once you fall behind the tech curve...
I have a model 3, 310 range... i was getting 500 miles per hr charging speed on a supercharger all june... the speed is already here, aside from tesla nobody has a solid charing network... price per kwh battery is in a freefall, and the chinese are not f---ing around with this, the are 100 pct committed and going electric, their r&d yuans go to electric only, cannot stop it... also, i am yet to encounter someone who tries electric and says this is sh-- - the usual reaction is shot this is coming, fast