Seems simple then, if the Big Three don’t want thousands of people out of work, they should give their employees what they deserve.

Slow news day, I take it?

The napkin math that I did elsewhere in the thread indicated that a 40% pay increase alone would cost approximately $3.5 billion, which is approximately 140 times the average total compensation of the Big 3's CEOs.

I decided to do some quick napkin math since I had the same question.

Powertrain design engineer here. An engine, transmission, or complete car is a complex assembly, yes. However, keep in mind that ever since the advent of the “assembly line” each individual worker is responsible for relatively few tasks.

I sure would love to see Fain show even some napkin math supporting his statement of “they could double all our wages and still be profitable”.

This would have been a perfect time for Chrysler to enter the field as well.

Your assertion makes no sense.

Gross profit is not a good metric to use. You should be looking at net profit instead.

I sincerely hope that you weren’t the one that took this mouthbreather out of the greys.

Am I the only person wondering why Biden is even involved with this in the first place?

A lot of people in this comments section that obviously didn’t even watch the video...

It’s hilarious to see you people in the greys arguing with me, when I’m an automotive engineer that literally does this shit for a living.

A window AC unit is still a heat pump. Literally any “air conditioner” that uses a compressor, evaporator, and condenser to achieve phase-change cooling/heating with a chemical refrigerant is a heat pump.

I found it hilarious how the OP was implying that other automakers don’t use heat pump-based AC systems, then linked to an article talking about heating, not cooling.

Uh... are you forgetting the fact that the cooling system will need to work harder to keep the battery cooler on a hotter day, therefore using more power, thereby reducing range due to the increased power draw of the cooling system?

I like how you spend this entire article trying to blame the government, sugar lobby, and automakers for this, while burying the actual cause as a footnote at the very end

Words cannot describe how much I want this. Holy shit.

Who cares about the car, look at those wheels.

“Reduction of complexity” is the name of the game in the auto industry nowadays, so if you’re able to design a modular engine family that supports a common architecture (bore spacing, bore size, valve sizes, valve angles, etc.) and component sharing, it’s a pretty huge cost savings in both base piece cost (due to…