Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Car group backs down: Will not build 1 million electric cars

General Motors is now also backing down when it comes to the electric car. Managing director Mary Barra now no longer believes in 1 million electric cars.

General Motors is the latest car brand to regret goals. At least when it comes to electric cars. The director now no longer believes that she can get 1 million of them built.

The director, Mary Barra, says that General Motors' car brands will only go so far if there is a market to buy the electric cars.

This is written by Automotive News via CNBC .

Barra has told the American media that General Motors does not have the capacity to build a million electric cars already for almost a year. Something the group had otherwise set out to do.

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– We are seeing a slight slowdown here. We won't get to a million electric cars. Because the market just doesn't develop. But we will get there, says Barra.

However, General Motors will find it difficult to completely back out of electric car production. And if that happens, it will have cost the group billions of dollars, which you may not be able to afford to lose.

However, GM is also behind some of the most criticized electric cars to date. Chevrolet, which is part of the group, has had to recall the Bolt electric car several times because of the risk of fire in the batteries.

Later, the car brand had to replace the batteries in all Bolt cars ever produced. At the same time, the owners were told to park outside.

Some of them – the owners that is – were also told that it would take several years for Chevrolet to replace the problematic battery packs. Read more about it here.

However, GM can note that sales of electric cars are generally improving. Also internally among the group's brands. It just doesn't go so fast that the director can defend the production of one million electric cars already next year.

One is the production target GM is now scrapping. Something else is the problems with the electric cars. And there are many of them. For the Americans, on the software front.

Criticism of the software in cars such as the Chevrolet Blazer, Cadillac Lyriq and GMC Hummer has literally rained down. There are problems with everything from screens that go black and stop, to charging that doesn't work.

At the same time, the brands have received strong criticism for dropping functions such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Read more about it here .

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