http://www.autocar.co.nz/autocar-news-app/gm-reckons-it-will-make-profits-on-electric-vehicles-by-2021 GM reckons it will make profits on electric vehicles by 2021 10 Jan 2018 Robert Barry
[image / GM http://www.autocar.co.nz/_Commercial/_News/2018-Dump-January/2017-MAVEN-LA-018.jpg ] General Motors (GM) has announced it will be launching at least 20 all-new electric vehicles (EV) by 2023 and it is working with Chinese partner SAIC to develop new and more cost efficient EV production facilities in China to produce them. According to Reuters, GM chief executive officer Mary Barra has made a promise to investors that the company will make a profit on selling EV by 2021. In November 2017 at a Wall Street function hosted by Barclays, Barra told analysts that GM is developing an all-new platform for battery electric vehicles that is different to the one currently used in the Bolt EV which will lower production costs and make the vehicles more profitable. “One of the things we'll be doing is structurally integrating the batteries into the architecture. This will allow us to take out cost and gives us better flexibility from a design perspective,” says Barra. “We will have modular [battery] cell chemistry solutions that will allow us to enter multiple segments off of this platform and really support all of the customer demands,” she says. “We'll also have the ability, which we have today, to manufacture battery packs at scale, both in China and the United States. So the result is a very modular battery platform that's going to give us tremendous flexibility to meet customer demands and to lower cost,” says Barra. According to Reuters, Barra also says that GM expects its battery cell cost to fall from U.S $145 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in the Chevy Bolt, to less than U.S $100 per kWh with the new platform. While Barra didn't give specifics at the Barclays function, she also told the assembled analysts that GM is improving the design of its battery packs, making them lower in height which makes them easier to mount into the floor of a vehicle and also modular, so that small and large battery packs can be assembled from common components. According to Reuters, the Chevrolet Bolt was the first mass-produced electric vehicle to go more than 200 miles (320km) between charges, and sell under U.S $40,000. GM sold 23,297 Bolts in 2017 while Tesla produced 1,770 of its U.S $35,000 Model 3, well short of the company’s original targets. [© autocar.co.nz] + http://thenewswheel.com/cadillac-set-to-receive-a-disproportionate-share-of-gms-upcoming-electric-vehicles/ Cadillac Set to Receive a “Disproportionate” Share of GM’s Upcoming Electric Vehicles January 31, 2018 Cadillac could soon be returning to its roots as the GM brand where new technology is introduced to the masses. A few months ago, The News Wheel reported that Buick would likely lead the … http://thenewswheel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Cadillac-CT6-Plug-In-for-China-760x605.jpeg http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/tYA6haBUYX2exvtUJxq2eI/Nissan-braintovehicle-technology-What-if-cars-could-read.html Nissan brain-to-vehicle technology: What if cars could read your mind? Jan 27 2018 Now, Japanese car-maker Nissan has unveiled a new brain-to-vehicle (B2V) technology that will enable autonomous cars to learn from the human brain and ... which is still in the concept stage, will be a part of autonomous vehicles ... the autonomous system in the vehicle will able to take actions—such as turning the steering wheel or slowing the car ... http://www.livemint.com/rf/Image-621x414/LiveMint/Period2/2018/01/27/Photos/Processed/[email protected] For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
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