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They currently build a luxury SUV, yes. Tell me when they make one people can actually afford.

toomuchtodo 8y ago
As the price of oil continues to climb, EVs become more affordable than internal combustion vehicles. Seems like a poor time to drop your sedan production in favor of SUVs with oil prices climbing, considering Americans are already changing their behavior due to existing price momentum at the pump.
- ntsplnkv2 8y ago
  As it continues to? Please look at oil prices over the last 20 years. You will see a lot of fluctuation. > Seems like a poor time to drop your sedan production in favor of SUVs with oil prices climbing, GM can do this. They can change production so quickly that when oil is cheap and people want SUVs (aka now) they can do that. And when it is not, they can change production back to sedans and EV. Much more flexibility. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/climate/suv-sales-global-climate.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/climate/suv-sales-global-...
  - toomuchtodo 8y ago
    Please. GM has nowhere near the EV manufacturing capacity of Tesla. They also have a dealer network that is not interested in pushing EVs over internal combustion vehicles.
    - ntsplnkv2 8y ago
      And yet GM has an available EV car and Tesla does not. And yet Tesla will not be able to deliver the cheap model 3 and GM has been doing it. That's a substantial claim - without any evidence. No surprise though - it's easy to be pulled into the Musk hype.
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      - solarkraft 8y ago
        What? Tesla is pumping out electric cars in lots and are only expanding production with the Model 3. The Bolt has been selling at between 1.5 and 1k per month while the production of the supply-limited model 3 is approaching 5k per week. I guess I'm crazy and got pulled into the Musk hype. > Tesla will not be able to deliver the cheap model 3 and GM has been doing it. I'm guessing they will. Right now though, you have a point there, the model 3 is more expensive than the Bolt.
solarkraft 8y ago
In a few years. An "SUV" is a luxury good anyway and many of them are absurdly priced (imagine what that'd get you in a real car!).

As the price of oil continues to climb, EVs become more affordable than internal combustion vehicles. Seems like a poor time to drop your sedan production in favor of SUVs with oil prices climbing, considering Americans are already changing their behavior due to existing price momentum at the pump.

ntsplnkv2 8y ago
As it continues to? Please look at oil prices over the last 20 years. You will see a lot of fluctuation. > Seems like a poor time to drop your sedan production in favor of SUVs with oil prices climbing, GM can do this. They can change production so quickly that when oil is cheap and people want SUVs (aka now) they can do that. And when it is not, they can change production back to sedans and EV. Much more flexibility. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/climate/suv-sales-global-climate.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/climate/suv-sales-global-...
- toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Please. GM has nowhere near the EV manufacturing capacity of Tesla. They also have a dealer network that is not interested in pushing EVs over internal combustion vehicles.
  - ntsplnkv2 8y ago
    And yet GM has an available EV car and Tesla does not. And yet Tesla will not be able to deliver the cheap model 3 and GM has been doing it. That's a substantial claim - without any evidence. No surprise though - it's easy to be pulled into the Musk hype.
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    - solarkraft 8y ago
      What? Tesla is pumping out electric cars in lots and are only expanding production with the Model 3. The Bolt has been selling at between 1.5 and 1k per month while the production of the supply-limited model 3 is approaching 5k per week. I guess I'm crazy and got pulled into the Musk hype. > Tesla will not be able to deliver the cheap model 3 and GM has been doing it. I'm guessing they will. Right now though, you have a point there, the model 3 is more expensive than the Bolt.

solarkraft 8y ago

In a few years. An "SUV" is a luxury good anyway and many of them are absurdly priced (imagine what that'd get you in a real car!).