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GM can secure whatever they want, they don’t have the talent or culture to do anything with what they secure. At most, GM will purchase someone else’s electric
by jbob2000 6y ago
GM can secure whatever they want, they don’t have the talent or culture to do anything with what they secure.
At most, GM will purchase someone else’s electric car design to use their battery supply. Then they’ll hire a contractor to build and design the factory. Then all of the staff that build it will be part time contractors from a temporary workforce company. The end result will be a piece of faulty garbage that barely drives, with nobody in the company to blame for its failure.
Most likely, GM will sell these contracts to someone who can actually execute, and they’ll make a tidy 2% profit to continue their mediocrity into the next decade.
- free_rms 6y agoThey have a lot of experience in every part of the car except the drive train. And once you have the battery, the rest of the drive train is.. pretty easy? I think? You're just hooking 2 motors to 2 wheels? Someone tell me what I'm missing here. Edit: someone down thread pointed out charging station build out.
- gmueckl 6y agoAn electric drive train is mechanically a lot simpler than a combustion engine based one. But you still need a battery management and charging control system to keep the battery alive. I think that this is the other half of the battle for efficient electric cars (besides battery chemistry and manufacturing).
- m463 6y agoYou could arguably say they've been working on electric drivetrains longer than anyone with the EV-1, then volt, spark, bolt, etc.. Now were they GOOD drivetrains, I don't know. There are a lot of tradeoffs there I don't understand, like is AC induction what we want, or should permanent magnets be a part of the design.
- chihuahua 6y agoI'm really hoping that the electric car future doesn't involve every manufacturer having to build their own network of charging stations.
- rasz 6y ago>They have a lot of experience in every part of the car except the drive train. and to this day they cant make a truck dash that doesnt crack after 5 years in Nebraska sun.