For more than a decade, the Detroit automaker’s vehicle sales in China eclipsed its U.S. totals, before that trend reversed last year...Another thing hurting GM is the fact that Chinese consumers have been incredibly quick to adopt electric vehicles

Right now, you need an app and a map to find charging infrastructure

They are, or are in the process, of installing plenty of fast DC chargers at bigger service stations like Flying J and Buckees.

Short sightedness... Cuts EV and Hybrids.... pumps out gas eating V8s.... gas crisis happens.... massive money losses... possible bankruptcy.... government bailout

Sad to say it. But, Tesla is already a $1tn auto maker.

January 31st 2029. 1st gear: GM has declared bankruptcy again after 4 years of tariffs and investing solely in truck production. Due to the collapse of the financial markets, massive spikes in fuel costs and federal interest rates crossing %20, American car buyers are buying more fuel efficient vehicles including…

i’m guessing a hybrid truck platform for silverado/escalade/suburban type vehicles was in the works because cafe but if the regulations were eased that might get scraped.   the normal passenger vehicles will probably still get hybrids.. or if they don’t that would be incredibly stupid and short sighted of them! 

1st gear is weird, yes if that means you can divert the spending on EV solutions into something more stable currently, great, but don’t just stop all together. All those billions in investments just got wasted...It will only be for 4 years and then it may get extremely tight the next 4 years. Just make all of your…

I mean. Europe isn’t easing up from what it seems. Still going to have to develop for that market. So those R&D dollars are still going to be spent. Also, hybrid take rate is skyrocketing. Seems like a good way to cede marketshare uncontested to a peer group in a fast-growing sector. Then having to claw all that back…

Yeah, down with the environment! We totally have another livable habitat close by that we can totally escape to while this planet burns!

[The Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror III but the cursed frogurt is a rotary engine.mp4]

Oh, the irony of you posting a nasty, partisan post in which you accuse others of exactly that, while (as noted) claiming that anyone who posts here lacks sense (kamikaze post?). When is the last time you even attempted to make a good-faith contribution to this community? Don’t post to jalopnik again. Try to do…

I remember when people could actually read, and see that an article about cars is uh...about cars instead of getting pissy because their dumbass buddy looks bad for doing dumbass stuff.

It also assumes that the factory lasts for exactly one year and then closes forever.

Basically.  The Venn diagram for people who claim to despise price controls and people who are excited for these tariffs is a single circle.

Trump: “we need massive tariffs on forgien EVs so they will be made here in the US!”

Basic division is all Vivek is capable of doing.

It no longer matters that Trump and his cabinet have the debating skills of Brick Tamland: they’ll just make a bunch of angry grunting sounds and their moronic masses will just say “ d E r P, YEAH!” and cheer them on.

DT acolytes: “Tariffs for Mexicali autos, cuz dammit buid ‘em here!”

Also, wouldn’t the “$880,000 per job” also account for the materials needed to build the factory? Pretty sure building materials aren’t free...