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Barra: GM to stay on course set by Akerson

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GM's Warren Battery Labs are full of very smart scientist.

GM's alternative propulsion group is full of very smart electrical engineers, many who have worked at Tesla and know what Tesla is doing. But they are considered weirdos by GM Big Wigs.

GM hired Marc Tarpenning as a consultant. Marc is a Tesla co-founder but no longer with the company. He gave them a blueprint on how to leverage GM's resources to crush Tesla.

Marc's report is gathering dust in some file cabinet.

Although they have some very smart people, GM is institutionally incapable of making consistently good decisions.

Whether the CEO is a man, woman, or transgendered it does not matter.

And the situation is similar but not as bad at Volkswagen, Toyota, Honda, Ford, and Fiat-Chrysler.

Nissan-Renault is a bit better and Hyundai's success is so recent they are not quite so full of themselves yet.

But no one has a serious competitor for the Model S on the horizon.
 
GM's Warren Battery Labs are full of very smart scientist.

GM's alternative propulsion group is full of very smart electrical engineers, many who have worked at Tesla and know what Tesla is doing. But they are considered weirdos by GM Big Wigs.

GM hired Marc Tarpenning as a consultant. Marc is a Tesla co-founder but no longer with the company. He gave them a blueprint on how to leverage GM's resources to crush Tesla.

Marc's report is gathering dust in some file cabinet.

Wait, wait, wait....I didn't know this. wow. GM is going to die a slow and painful death and they will get to see how it goes first hand....poor thing.
 
She says that now, but im sure GM will adapt to the market. If the market goes full steam with EVs then GM will have no choice but to create an EV. It wouldnt make much sense to stick with cars that are failing to sell big numbers.
 
She says that now, but im sure GM will adapt to the market. If the market goes full steam with EVs then GM will have no choice but to create an EV. It wouldnt make much sense to stick with cars that are failing to sell big numbers.

That's what they did last time, and it's basically the same mindset that's running GM now.
 
She says that now, but im sure GM will adapt to the market. If the market goes full steam with EVs then GM will have no choice but to create an EV. It wouldnt make much sense to stick with cars that are failing to sell big numbers.

Big companies cannot turn their business around that quickly, by the time they realize that the ICE age is over, companies like Tesla, Samsung and many more will be building EV's that people want to buy. Then it's into the history books for GM, just like Kodak.