GM has a fantastic EV engineering department, hampered by probably the WORST EV sales team. If they want to make a difference they need to train their DEALERS. It's not the customers that are the problem.
Many of the local GM dealers refuse to carry EVs and actively try to talk you out of purchasing them. The few dealers that do carry them, only stock a couple and don't make any effort to promote them. THe last time I was shopping for an EV the dealer (that had one) diddn't even know where they had hidden it. It took them 20 minutes to find it and it didn't have the feature I most wanted (DC fast charging) February 6, 2021 2:00 PM, "Peri Hartman via EV" <[email protected]> wrote: > Another article today about GM's "commitment" to EVs. > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/02/06/auto-industry-peers-into-an-electric-f > ture-sees-bumps-ahead > > GM has prepared a superbowl ad that portrays GM as being angry that > Norway sells more EVs than US. I doubt this means GM expects to suddenly > double their EV sales, or something like that. But I see this very > positively, in that if viewers see EVs as being portrayed as mainstream, > resistance will drop. > > ----- > > Conquering Norway’s small car market won’t make or break the fate of GM, > which has been making cars for more than a century. But the good-humored > GM ad — one of two EV ads the company will air — is another sign that > the world’s fourth-largest automobile company might be trying to steer > its way toward a new era of electric vehicles. > ... > David R. Keith, a Chevy Bolt owner and assistant professor at the Sloan > School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said > “given that EVs cost more than conventional vehicles and we’re at a > point where consumers are not making lavish discretionary purchases, the > question is not, ‘Can we sell to the wealthy?’ It is, ‘Can we get the > everyday household in mainstream America to buy an EV?’ and we’re still > a long way away from that.” > ... > many GM workers in software were disappointed. One current GM employee > said there were “good benefits” and a “good work/life balance,” but “too > much time spent on meetings and political games.” The advice to > management? “It is hopeless. IT management needs to be completely > replaced. IT bureaucracy is an obstacle for innovation.” > > -------- > > The article covers other aspects, too. > Peri > > << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
