GM Slashing 14,000 Jobs

San Antonio is in Japan apparently...

 

Exactly if you look at the impact compared to oil drilling (fracking is a different story), mining for metals and minerals used in batteries if far more damaging to the environment. Look at a lithium mine or cobalt mine compared to an oil well site. Unreal

 

Because electric vehicles are not mainstream. You will need a "model T" of electric vehicles before gas cars and trucks could be phased out. If Musk's goal at Tesla was to revolutionize and disrupt the auto industry, it's not gonna happen with $150K cars.

 

I've got two Teslas on order........in case gas goes up a dollar.

 

Do you get them in the year 2020?

 

Ask McFly.....

 

I don't think GM is not keeping up with the wave of change and do believe Toyota should take some notes soon if they already haven't.

https://youtu.be/0eRCYhPy2Mw

 

All the personal stuff aside (gas vs electric, America vs Japanese) I always feel horrible when layoffs this massive happen. I survived Order 66 at Target when they nicked 10% of their corporate staff. Fucking horrible. Then after "The Breach" another wave hit and my wife got sacked after 17.5 years. I can't put into words how horrible she felt. The day before she was working with people she had known for a third of her life the next day they were gone. Sure she can see them outside of there, but it still ripped a hole in her.

I'm not saying, that I don't understand that these things happen. It just makes me sad for the people that it happens to.

 

I sure wouldn't buy a GM vehicle in the near future, not with soon to be laid off, pissed off employees on the assembly line. I see a lot of warranty claims in GM's future.
I do feel sad and have much empathy for their workers that are probably feeling much anxiety and thinking what's next.

 

That Rivian is pretty amazing...

 

i figured. but still...

 

NO it's GM's fault for not making super RELIABLE vehicles. Or as Reliable.

 

my Tundra looks BETTER.. Rivian is ugly! Whoever designed this must be blind... that's my opinion.

 

my coworker has a Volt. he likes the car for commuting but early on, one of the motherboards fried...cost was $5K...warranty work but still...those cars, as they aged, will cost a lot of money to fix.
for a lease ,they should be ok though

 

I like keenly stupid.......heh...heh....

 

I think that’s pretty cool looking except for the grille area. I would probably add a black vinyl in between the two oval holes to give it a pho grille. It would be cool if you could bring a generator with you to charge it up out on the trail. Add a few solar panels as well. That thing looks pretty capable. I would probably want to relocate the spare and make it look like a old bronco.

 

Yeah, that grille is ugly as sin. Would the TRD pro grille fit?

 

Focusing on electric cars, but cancelling the Volt?

 

That would be a sin unless it was a Toyota. But it would look good in there!

 

Except for the ones that can constantly charge themselves using the brakes and/or solar, electric cars are a huge fraud that we tax payers subsidize in both production & retail sales phases. Buy and drive what you want, but don't force the tax paying public subsidize any part of the process.

 

I had a 2016 Silverado 1500.. It was ok but had weird issues I didn't want to keep for the long haul and it was a Double Cab, no room in the back. Was i to go back and get a GMC or Chevy Crew.. probably, should I? no. I didn't want to deal with their BS, "it's normal" answer.

They may be reliable enough but I don't want to learn the hard way. LOL I'm not that rich to just throw money at the shop whenever they ask for it.

 

I would like my beer cost subsidized a little bit........