• hobofats@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      honestly this is looking more like the truth. they thought they could pretend to be pivoting to EVs while trying to “prove” that they wouldn’t be feasible over ICE vehicles, then when Bolt sales took off they panicked and canceled it, only to bring it back when more federal money was thrown at it.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, they invested 10s of billions of dollars in constructing factories to “pretend”… They canceled the Bolt because they expected Ultium to ramp faster. They couldn’t ramp Ultium as fast as they had wanted to because of a delay with a supplier for the equipment used to make modules and packs.

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      1 year ago

      Lol, if this was a “smear campaign,” they wouldn’t have spent billions developing a modular EV platform and so many EV vehicles. They would have take the Ford route of slapping batteries in their gas platforms (Mach-E & Lightning), if anything at all.

      I have no doubt that they are serious about EVs (they’ve been trying every few decades since the early 1900s, but the tech just hasn’t been there until now), but it’s clear they’re facing some set backs that are definitely not part of their plan.

      I think we should spend more time judging companies who aren’t trying like Toyota, Stellantis, etc.