How GM Beat Tesla to the First True Mass-Market Electric Car(wired.com)

10 pointsby lightcatcher11 lat temu2 comments

How GM Beat Tesla to the First True Mass-Market Electric Car

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/gm-electric-car-chevy-bolt-mary-barra/

2 comments

It is a very important car and one where the manufacturing and supply prowess of the big automakers is put on display. The large automakers do a lot of market research to know what people want, they don't stand up and tell people what they want they go find out. They also more importantly have the money, suppliers, and trade agreements, to pivot quickly.

Throw in the most basic fact of all, if GM wants to produce a hundred thousand of these it can in short order. Tesla cannot do that because they don't have the capacity nor the money to buy it

dsfyu404ed11 lat temu

It sounds like good car. The "nobody will buy an EV with 200mi of range if it isn't a great car" attitude is what makes me think it has a chance.