VW trademarked e-Beetle a few months ago.

The ID4 is only 6 inches taller than a Golf and most of its weight is down low in the batteries. The ID4 is also RWD. But yes it has another 1000 lbs to contend with.

And that short amount of time is practically nothing in the automotive market. Everyone isn’t buying cars at the exact same time.

As a beta release. Then they finally get it working reliably or safely 2-3 years after that.

Well they already mandate a certain amount of gap between the hood and engine to provide enough cushion. My German built Regal has a pyrotechnic device that lifts the hood during a pedestrian impact to further soften the blow.

He came out of this with a net worth of $4 billion.

Difference is GM actually has the battery and fuel cell tech needed for the Nikola products, and can build them. It remains to be seen if they will actually be viable.

The supercruise maps are updated by scanning the supported roads monthly. That has to be funded somehow.

Well there’s two way to go about it:

The batteries alone will weigh over 2000 lbs. Its going to be very heavy.

Actual buttons

How is this different than any other company that puts out teasers until they release the vehicle? This was supposed to be unveiled back in May and they had to scrap that event to come up with a video unveiling.

The motors are mounted inboard on the Hummer

Reaching out to overseas partners? GM is a global company with engineering and design done around the world for all of their products.

Except Nikola will be manufacturing their class 7/8 trucks.

Sonic and Cruze were dropped because they were assembled in the US. Spark comes from Korea so they have more volume to spread around coming from there and selling in the Korean market.

GM + Honda:

Honda will probably provide GM with a platform for small cars while Honda gets GM’s EV platform.

Neat virtual reality tour of the revealed vehicles

Getting a Rivian vibe from it...