EVs will be the death of gm (lower case in accordance with their new logo). They will never be able to compete with Tesla for technology superiority, or customer base. Tesla has a few things going for it. One, Elon Musk is a modern day PT Barnum for Millennials, he generates public enthusiasm for his product and its abilities. Ask a millenial who Mary Barra is and note the blank stare. Second, Tesla has investors willing to put building a company above dividends. gm does not have this luxury, 100 years of dividend checks sets a precedent, and investors want their money. Third, their logo. Tesla uses an authoritative "T" on their cars and TESLA on other things. gm has their new whisper logo.
EVs make sense for a small portion of the motoring public. One would make sense for me and the driving I do, but the price does not. We should be letting market demand drive innovation. Building the product the masses weren't asking for is, well, what gm is good at I suppose. There are people who could use an EV, and would purchase one if the price were right and that should be driving the market, not the government. Elon Musk himself has said going all electric is not feasible. We do not have the electric infrastructure to charge millions of electric cars. We should be listening to the expert in his field, not politicians.
As to the pollution, EVs just move the pollution. The fuel pollution moves to a power plant (I realize in a smaller proportion). The real problem is end of life. A modern gas vehicle is mostly all recyclable, an EV is not. Mainly due to the large battery. The batteries are toxic waste from the second they are made, once they reach end of life, they are useless and non-recyclable. Our grandkids will have mountains of batteries to deal with. EV pollution is like this, you walk through a yard with your friend and he steps in cat poop. You still have to smell it, but feel good it's not on you directly. That's the EV pollution argument in a nutshell.
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