3 ms·
American automakers - good engineering, good designers but politicians i.e protecting the jobs & Wall Street short-term thinking get in the way. though GM seem
by dzonga 5mo ago
American automakers - good engineering, good designers but politicians i.e protecting the jobs & Wall Street short-term thinking get in the way.
though GM seems to be the only american automaker that hasn't really given up on EVs
- wffurr 5mo agoFord is still very much at it: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/how-do-you-design-a-30000-electric-pickup-inside-fords-skunkworks/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/how-do-you-design-a-300... Rivian and Lucid are both American automakers, as is Tesla.
- DangitBobby 5mo agoPoliticians are the reason they only sell this to authorized shops?
- thesuitonym 5mo agoThe politicians are just the cogs in the system. It's the CEOs and shareholders that are paying them that are the problem.
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]