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GM is in a spiraling vortex! Design simple cars and trucks that don’t cost more than a house. Not cheap… Simple!
All of the manufacturers are doing this, not unique to GM.
Yup!
They all need to take that approach. The US government needs to open up the market for the Chinese Automakers. To increase the supply!!! Force the prices down!!
A spiraling ‘vortec’
government regulations are why the cars are so complex now
The CEOs don't quit, they found out that the ship is sinking so they grab their bonuses, 401k, stocks, Roth, off shore accounts, etc. and jump on the life boat.
Unknowingly, the lifeboats were made by GM
Exactly what Carlos Goshn did
No CEO would qualify for a Roth IRA!
Then turn up destroying another company somewhere else.
Plenty of "Golden Parachutes" for these executives across all banking and manufacturers.
The govt pushed the jab, the govt pushed the evs, .... when are people going to learn not to listen to the govt?
Some people want to be ruled
When they're pushing up daisies.
They're also pushing to get rid of V8s as well.
@@CJColvinSeems like they're still selling them.
You don't have to buy an EV if you don't want to. All you get is a tax rebate, but you can ignore the govt carrot.
Our family runs a transmission shop and we give our blessings to GM at the end of each week. I literally look up at the sky and say “thank you GM and god bless you for the good business”
Haha this is fantastic honestly
LMAOOO
😂
lol! As a retired g.m technician and transmission specialist I say the same thing. Made a pretty good living working on g.m.transmissions.
Long live the Hydramatic 400, 727 Torque Flite and C6.
Seventy five years ago, engineers had no computers, drawing boards, and designed engines that ran forever. Now, with cgi modeling, and tools undreamed of then, they design engines that crack, blow up, eat valves and wear out in a year. Unexcusable!
It is done on purpose, they have no incentive to make a good car, buy a Tesla.
@@tedmoss Tesla? 😂
@@tedmossDidn't a Tesla just murder Mitch McConnel's sister last week? 😂 Have fun in your death trap.
Metal is not what it used to be. It’s a lot cheaper now and there’s a lot more plastic in use.
I absolutely could not agree more compared to 20 years ago ,the quality in all aspects is absolute garbage, really pis-poor quality, that is way overpriced. I will maintain my older one
Mary Barra should donate her last pay packet to charity and then leave.
I agree.
I agree but the kicker is half the nonprofits are crooked as hell. A really good one is Mary's Place, Minneapolis, MN - truly helping the homeless.
I agree
She should donate it to the people that are losing their jobs.
But watch her change her name to “Charity!” 😂
Just dont ask for a BAILOUT from the American people, i mean us tax payers!
You mean the loan they got and payed back…..
@@sammyweed4771I also understand that the loan was repaid.
@@brianwesley28Gm did not pay back the full 52 billion dollar bailout!
Don't worry, Congress will never approve a another bailout of government motors. The Chinese will buy the parts they want at bankruptcy auction.
Excellent point
All the Diversity-Equity-Inclusion crap is gonna kill us all.
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It's called "DIE" for a reason.
It's so bad that the Jeep Gladiator doesn't know if it should self-identify as a jeep or a truck.
That's the idea.. That's what they want..
We are already dead..
Keep leaving, GM employees...don't continue giving your allegiance to that corrupt hellhole of a company!
You don’t think they may have had something to do with what’s happened?
Gm is an incredible company to work for, especially for working class people, don't know where you're getting your info., too much Scotty maybe.
Both of my parents, my uncle, my brother all worked and retired from GM. I was raised hearing "as GM goes , so does the US". I don't think people understand how bad of an indicator this is. A major US car manufacturer going out of business is far more important than most people know. We are not going forward anymore, we are going backwards now.
GM builds alot of military stuff, if they go out, then we might not be able to defend ourselves.
I've been driving Japanese trucks since 1990, my dad gave me a 1979 truck but it sucked. My 1st new car was a Japanese truck and since then the few vehicles I've had are Japanese.
Many , many car manufacturers have gone out of business, move on.
You’re absolutely right - the U.S. doesn’t make anything anymore except influencers, movies nobody goes to the theaters to see and debt. 💔
@@AndrewReevesArt yes, this is not about GM in particular, it's about US manufacturing and production as a whole. The US was once the world leader in so so many different areas. Now we aren't leading the world in anything except the amount of jobs leaving this once great nation.
Electric cars have limited range and take hours to recharge. Gas can go anywhere and refuel in minutes.
..and they are stuck with a dead weight t15 x 1 cwt sacks of coal?) of a fuel source that doesn't get lighter with range..like a fuel tank does.
YEAL YEAH! You both know EVs are the future for all good reasons.
ICE cars have limited range.
@@tedmoss But there are dime a dozen gas stations and five mins to fill up for another 400 miles
EVs are simply too expensive for most people and a lot of hassle indeed. Not to mention the extreme depreciation. And that is why EV sales are dropping like a stone.
Stop building junk... & stop ripping people off on the price.. car or truck should not cost more than 15k dollars max... my cousin is a big Engineer at ford for over 40yrs & he said it only cost 7,800.00 dollars to build a F150 4×4 Is lariat.... Yup! Crazy how much the markup is on cars & trucks
If your cousin knows it cost $7,800 to build F-150, he could start his own company, making it for $15,000 and still make good profit. Actually, each Ford car has $7,500 cost as worker's benefit. Let alone the raw materials cost, and factory over head.
No way ot only cost $7800 to build an F150 4x4 lariat. Youre making things up.
$15,000? Tell me you know nothing about engineering or manufacturing without telling me you know nothing about engineering and manufacturing. Do you know much even 1 plastic injection mold is? Say the mold to make your armrest or radio bezel... one mold could be as much as $500,000. Nevermind massive ones like for a dashboard or something. Keep living in fantasy land thinking cars should be max 15k no matter what it is. Even if you adjust a Model T for inflation it's over $20,000. Those were super basic compared to today's cars with all the tech and safety features etc. Most cars have a dozen airbags these days, even cost on all of those is $1500. Can they build cars for 20k? Sure, but thinking that 20k car is going to look like a Lexus RC-F inside and out is laughable at best. Get your head out of the sand.
@@derekgardin1512how many cars can one mold be used for? Economies of scale tells me that 500,000 for the mold is paid once to produce millions of instances of a part. Once all the parts are produced, the vehicle gets assembled by mostly robots in an assembly line where the biggest costs are union wages, but I could see where vehicles are produced at a much lower cost when assembled in countries like Mexico with far lower wages than the US. 7800.00? Nah, but 18-20k per unit is feasible. Especially if it’s the same chassis, engine and transmission from previous years. A lot of the costs included in the car prices are for recalls, warranty work and middle man commissions.
Its like cell phones that cost us over a thousand dollars which cost them $10.
Quitting was the best decision I ever made, I couldn’t handle 3 months of that dysfunction. I’m a software engineer and trust me, they have no idea what they’re doing
When a CEO makes 20 million a year that's $80.000 A day, $400.000 per week.
That's about $19.5 million too much.
Sad, it will take me almost two years to make what they earn in one day...
@@nn-dj2nusorry for your poverty
@@richardcranium3579 dont cry for me, im doing ok, but its actually kind of sad that 40k a year is damn near poverty level in the USA.
"But we can't afford employee wages"
Active fuel management has not worked since the 1980s caddies
That is actually true.
Afm destroys engines and to put that stupid engine start stop on a small engine with a turbo is just plain stupid. Keep cooking the oil in the turbo at every stop.
no electric pump to maintain oil pressure? i was wondering about those stop start cars.
Here's a problem. As a very satisfied Honda owner (2006 CRV), I got a email from Honda about their new EV with a link to a video if I wanted to see more. The video was a slow motion ballet with some guy floating through the air. Nothing at all about the car. When, oh when, will car manufacturers listen to Scotty that the vast majority of people want a car that fits their needs, doesn't break down, is suppoorted by the company that sold it to them, and is within their budget? . If I want to float through the air, that's what happy hour is for.
What a far cry from my 1980 Buick that still runs great. They discontinued all parts for her many years ago so I don't care where GM goes.
Bigger trucks are backlash of the EPA formula tying required mileage to wheelbase dimensions. Classic example of government "solving" a problem by creating 3 more.
no one wants to pay for there spy software onstar
Wish that were true but the masses love paying for AI and getting spied on.
their
All makes of cars have that software, our leftist government is forcing it, you have always had the choice to disable the GM system, and that I always do.
GM should stand for Goodbye Mary...
No. It should stand for Glued Metal.
I use to work for a company that had stuff plugged in to tell if you were dri ing properly he got a call from the office they asked him were he was they said the alarm went off said he was speeding he said its parked at the job site they said the computer said it was doing , get this 249 miles per hour , in a full size GMC van um not likely
Not even down hill with a hurricane tail wind
249mph, lol
In a way, that is good. They know they cannot rely on what it tells them.
Government motors would’ve been long gone if it wouldn’t have been for tax pay bailout over the years
ford aswell
@@promx96 actually ford paid theres back,mopar are thr real taxpayer delights
Trucks used to be an affordable utilitarian option. Now, they've become the most expensive luxury SUVs on the market.
They’ve pussified trucks into neighborhood asphalt queens and charging a premium for it. Shiny seven way tow hitches that have never pulled anything , not a scratch on the trucks anywhere. Sad.
They’ve pussified trucks into neighborhood asphalt queens. Seven way adjustable trailer hitches that have never towed anything and not a scratch in the paint anywhere. Sad what it’s become. Buying a truck with vinyl interior and no special “package” is like finding the “squatch” in the woods.
My dad was an engineer at GM for 35 years…. He drives a Toyota…
My GMC truck is sadly crap....AFM lifters and 8L transmission......proud GMC truck over for over 40 years.....would not recommend another one since when I went in with problem for transmission....they said that was normal and refused to help....
GMT800 baby!
Dodge MDS issues. Toyota VVT issues. Toyota rod bearing issues. They all have issues.
@@imrfYes, and that's what a lot of people don't seem to understand.
@@D.E.. What people don't understand is the day of the ICE car has come to an end, buy a Tesla.
@@imrf 100% agree. Think they make all trucks and cars with some issues, some worse then others, but my worse experience is with Dodge and Chrysler makes on almost everything. But for many years I do think these car companies can build a car or truck to last 50 to 100 years, and drive for at least a million miles without no or very little mechanical problems. But don't think they never will do it, cause they will all be out of business.
I bought a 2012 Model S for $25k ($430/mo) payment is free supercharging I commute 85 miles each day to work at $5.79 (taxifornia) the gas bill if I drove my 2004 4runner with 280k miles (love that rig) would be over $500/mo. So it's not so easy to say EVs are bad especially Teslas I was always a hater until I bought one. The S is a luxury sports car it's unbelievablly fun to drive and is super nice. Support a good American innovator like Musk if you dare. I was always a ford guy but their cars/trucks now plain sick sadly my first car was an 81 f150 with 302, I'm a union guy with a background in finance and most importantly not a lemming! Peace y'all 🙏
The large trucks is because of CAFE standards. They are allowed to get lower mpg with a bigger wheel base.
CAFE is determined by weight & average fleet fuel mileage
There are still smallMazda B 2000’s and early Toyota PU’s still out here in surprising numbers in AZ. They look so practical and unpretentious.
There's an old school Toyota pickup at work and looks tiny compared to modern day trucks. It actually fits into a parking spot. It's not jacked up. Very practical vehicle and that's probably good on gas as well. I wish they still sold small pickups like these. We have a dozen oversized pickups in our parking lot that have crazy ground clearance. These are their everyday vehicles. I don't get it or can afford it.
Those little pickups are basically grocery getters.
@@kevinkurtz9889 Is there something wrong with that? Most trucks are grocery getters. Lol. Few are actually used for work. The beds on some of the modern 4 door trucks are as small the tiny trucks. How big of a truck does someone need for groceries, lumber, mulch, etc? Obviously there are those that need a full size trucks.
Florida too. Every pool guy has a small truck from the 90's to 2000's and there are alot of pool guys here.
@@kevinkurtz9889 If that s what floats your boat. Lots more practical uses than just groceries.
I love when you said “Idiots are pushing EV’s” and put up a pic of President Pull-ups.
I had a 92 S10 with 2.8 and 5 speed put 245,000 mile on it with no problems, try that today
2003 Silverado 3/4 HD, 8.1 {gas) with 319k miles. Driven every day.......
@@mikethomas2901that was THEN not now...
My 88 S15 was a helpless piece of junk.
Government Motors would be non existent except for politicians proping them up with tax payer money! End the bailouts and allow the free markets to fix itself and the ridiculous pricing!
As the story goes, Lee Iacocca's first action at Chrysler was to Fire 100 of 102 vice presidents. True or not, it made sense then. It makes sense now.
Yeah...never let a liberal woman be in charge
It’s said you can love women or you can understand women. (Think about it)
Never let a woman be in charge in the first place. That's the fastest way to hell in a hand basket.
Exactly mate
Democrats are #2 big money party and NOT liberal by any stretch of the imagination.
Remove the word liberal
GM these days stands for "Garbage Manufacturer"
Or genuine garbage
always did
😂
Grossly Mismanaged 🤔
Haaaaaa🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I work at the GM plant in Spring Hill. I am nervous. This last year alone I worked for Southeastern Freight, Yellow Trucking, SAIA, UPS and Ryder/GM. Talk about a string of bad luck.
They should make a movie about you. I had a coworker who was the same. He had worked at 5 companies that went bankrupt. Hear that sucking sound? That's the sound of good jobs getting sent off to China.
Mary Barra and the GM board need to be fired!
Agree! And same with Ford. I think we Americans are pissed that these executives get away with ripping off the company in huge paychecks when they don’t contribute anything to the company. I mean, it’s all “ax jobs here” and “sell off assets” there with no real growth. When’s the last time GM and Ford introduced a new brand? When the last time they actually improved sales? These executives are completely unnecessary overhead that burden the company with their bull crap leadership and high paychecks. Time to overhaul the executives.
Since when doesn’t a woman fk things up.
Barrack Hussein 0bama should be in PRSION for stealing GM from the shareholders in 2010 and put his version of Oskar Schindler in charge...
I don’t want these companies to fail because people will lose their job. That said, I despise the direction that these companies are going, so stupid!
We are supposed to be a capitalist country that means if your business sucks it fails and goes out of business and the employees lose their job if this would have happened in 2008 instead of all getting bailed out there would still be a demand for american-made cars and the government would have had to change and eliminate many of the regulations to allow for new auto manufacturing startups the 17 billion dollars GM got a loan in 2008 is now the equivalent of 26 billion with inflation. Instead of accepting the crash and accepting hard times the sheeple allowed this and now we have people who think they're the opposite gender and want laws to protect it the federal government is way too big we're supposed to be sovereign states in a United country
If you work for a place and dont see the writing on the wall.
@@templarkbigdmcm4481 I guess that was the agreement pre lockdown but only the bigs were able to stay open. Seems to me that the deck was stacked against the average business. That’s not capitalism.
One reason for the monster trucks today is because the EPA regulations exempt them over a certain size from the CAFE standards. The manufacturers would LOVE to build trucks and cars we'd all want to buy...but are being forced by the government to build what they tell them to build. That is fascism pure and simple.
Remember when Ford tried to put a smaller doghouse on their 1/2 tons? People hated it so Ford went back to the huge doghouse. Automakers prefer large over equiped autos because they can charge more.
I wonder who lobbied to classify suvs as light trucks
Seriously, the government “ made them …the tax payers should have never bailed them out. They would have been forced to restructure their company…it’s all out greed that drives the auto industry, nothing else….
GM abandoned their domestic customers years ago for Asian markets, now that party is over and they have nowhere left to go. They had a good run, R.I.P.
Rightly said. EVs are good for small distances. Here in Jordan they make perfect sense as gasoline prices are sky high. The downside here is, they are good as they don’t break down. Nobody knows how to fix them …yet!!
In Jordan there are very stupid people running the country they side with Israel over their fellow Arabs who have plenty of oil that is the kind of stupidity that ruins economies
31 comments, and only 3 showing. Good old yt censorship.
Classic conservative victim complex
@@laysdong I want reparations for all the missing comments.
@@laysdongProud member of the establishment while everything is deteroriating? That doesn't work very well in the end. Think meathooks and guillotines.
Deth to EV's 😅 some fools still swear by them... Until they break down and see the repair bill
It was very recently reported that the highly vaunted (by cultists) Tesla's are proving to drop down the cliff with issues (other than spontaneous combustion) at about the five year mark...
I’ll let you know when my model 3 breaks down. 2018 with 122,000mi, travels between 4 states regularly, has only seen Costco for tires. Don’t worry, I have a Tundra too for towing, but it sits now unless needed.
@@aussie2uGA you've probably still got a couple years until you need a $15,000 battery replacement.
@@noname-oe9jy ah, ok…. 🤦♂️
My hybrid had NO trade in value after 100k Look it up. They all depreciate like zeppelins.
We have a 2016 Hyundai Genesis with the 3.8l V-6 engine and HTRAC all-wheel drive. On the highway we get anywhere from 28 to just under 30 mpg. With a 20.3 gallon fuel tank that gives us well over 500 miles of range! EV this!
'18 Accord 1.5T avg since ownership is ALMOST 40 mpg. 38.5 is a bad tank, 43 is a great tank. Same deal, on fill up, I show 520-560 miles for a full tank. Great mileage on your V6!
2015 TDI Jetta gets 60mpg at 60mph over 800 miles on a flat road and 750 on hilly terrain.
Just put in a bigger battery.
@@tedmoss Sounds simple enough. Tell us how that works out for you!
2015 mazda 6. Gets 40 mpg on the highway even at 80 mph. Estimated around 600 miles on a full 16 gallon tank.
I just rolled over 300,00 miles on my 2013 Impala. I still drive it daily.
EVs seem like a tech that was too early for mainstream adoption. Charging is still too slow, charging infrastructure isn't there yet, the battery tech isn't good enough and isn't particularly "green", companies are trying to screw customers on battery repairs by trying to make single cell replacement impossible, etc. I'm not against the idea of EVs, but these issues need to be solved before I'll consider one and it looks like mainstream customers agree.
There is no solution in sight for EVs. They've gotten pretty much all the energy density they can into lithium batteries and it's clearly not enough. The more energy you pack into a battery, the greater the risk of thermal runaway.
You wrote a great synopsis! For 2015…
the only way i would buy a ev is if the car can be charged from 0 to 100% in under 1 second
EV is dead technology that was abandoned 100 years ago because it could never be practical.
do you even own in ev in 2024 alot has changed
A lot of these people with oversized trucks only use them for groceries or 2x4s. But it makes them feel macho.
Overcompensation for their "shrinkflation" in their pants?
@@Hugh_Manitee Yes. In plenty of cases.
Plus the CAFE standards for mpg drop as the wheelbase and width/track grows larger. So a 1980s dinky GM S10 pickup or 1980s Ford Ranger is not built today. So CAFE rules are like a 350 Lb person can eat 3 big Macs for dinner and a 120 lb person can only eat a hamburger. Trucks are giant today since the mpg requirements are lower with bigger trucks.
People since the 50’s have bought cars to fit their personalities, get lookers, get the chicks, keep up with the Joneses. It’s a totally American thing, and i dont have a problem with that! Too many cars today lack any kind of personality, and that’s sad.
Speaking as a Chev owner: "And nothing of value was lost..." Was feeling dwarfed the other day waiting in my ancient F250 at a stop sign next to another Ford truck. Realized it wasn't an F350, just a recent F150. That's a lot of unnecessary sheet metal there. Just another reason they're going to bury me in the F250.
When you run out of parts, you will go electric.
Scotty, what kills me in New Zealand with EV vehicles is that we import 3 million tonnes of coal China annually to generate the electricity to power ‘green’ EVs. The coal comes on diesel powered ships and then transported by diesel powered trucks from the port to the power station (about 60 miles). And nobody sees the irony.
I work at GM in the 80's at GM/EDS where Roger Smith tries the software/tech switch. Didn't work.
GM needs to go back to be a general motors company. From sewing machines to satellites.
A commenter below quoted the old saying, As GM goes, so goes the nation. Appears to have been prophetic.
not alot of talk about the accelerated wear and tear on our roads and highways being caused by the enormously robust weight of EVs. if an electric car weighs as much as a full size truck, how much does an electric truck weigh?
So how much were the golden parachutes they got which were built in when they got their jobs?
The worst part of GM is not the vehicles . It’s the dealers.
The cyber truck looks like a giant stainless steel refrigerator 😂
General Motors was once the largest car manufacturer in the world. Bad management has led to this
How dare YOU ...tell the Truth !! (Haha) It's never the Management.
As a 22 year old I bought my first car, a new 1980 Pontiac. It was a money pit, and I never bought another GM car since. I certainly don't feel bad for them.
2:55 Allstate had me use this dongle few years ago. After a few months of that, I haven’t had Allstate since.
Went to a GM dealer and was discouraged from buying a Bolt EV. The reason I suspect, they don't require service. I bought a Kia. It's great for my short 20 miles commute.
Bolts are great cars. Shoulda went to another dealer.
bought a silverado last fall…At signing time, the finance officer was selling all the little stuff, which i declined, and i looked her in the eye and said i’m not sure your job/dealership will exist long enough to get the service contract, i think she knew as well. i think they F’d the oil we put in our vehicles the last few years, forcing us to buy new vehicles.
No, they did screw with the gasoline though.
Scotty is a funny man.
So are the pictures he puts up.
@@crlaw75 Where does he find them???
Nah, annoying is more like it. Like nails on a chalkboard annoying.
Scotty, the reason I drive a big truck is because there are too many drivers that come over the line head-on in my direction. I got rid of my Honda CRV and bought a Ram 1500. I love it.
Parts stores love that you own a GM
Scotty- regarding things connected to the OBD. What about the tracking device that many dealers install on all of their vehicles (I think on the back side of the OBD connector), same issue. Maybe you can do a video about these devices, and ultimately show is how to identify them and remove them. I was not aware some dealers install them on all vehicles until it came up in a FB group that I am in.
Had a great 94 Chevy blazer (Tahoe ) before they started making the crap trail blazers. Loved my 77 Pontiac TA. And I even had 2 new little Metros in the 90's- a station wagon that was wonderful (and got 40 mpg!loved that little roller skate!) and a sedan that had many problems(they weren't making station wagons anymore, ugh). That sedan was the last GM product I bought. Was sorry to see good models discontinued, prices going through the roof, and quality falling horribly.
Buy GM, but be forewarned- Budget $$ for replacements of the air conditioning system, shocks, and wheel bearings, as well as potential transmission issues. It's a common observation that GM's warranty tends to conclude just before significant mechanical problems arise.
As a longtime buyer of new GM's, I disagree. I have also found GM's customer service line very helpful. When the ignition switch on my Colorado failed at 75k miles GM agreed to cover half the cost. I sell my old cars to my daughters at the 'dear old dad' price and my daughter's 2014 Sonic (1.8L, no turbo) just had it's 100k maintenance done and has had no issues with any of the items you listed.
Informative and entertaining!.....thanks for posting
Model Y is the best selling car in the world. Tesla has better brand loyalty than any other auto manufacturer, including Toyota. We agree, government mandates are nuts. Great show!
GM should make small no-frills vehicles for people on a budget who just want to get to work without paying 2 or 3 years' worth of salary for a vehicle.
Chevy made the Sonic, crank windows, 1,8L motor with no turbo, simple 4 speed auto transmission. Low price and very reliable. Nobody wanted them.
@steven4315 Yeah, back in 2014 when there were more options for small cheap vehicles available. I bet they would be more popular today.
@@teejaynumber13 Best hope for an affordable US made auto from GM is if they keep their promise and bring back the Bolt in 2025.
They had hose kind of cars in the 1990s up to 2010 but people would not buy them they were ashamed to drive small cars
the used too,before the era of the "brodozer"
At least Toyota is bringing out the Stout small pickup that is long overdue. Should be a big seller.
But demand will be so good, dealers will double the price so we're still screwed.
Hopefully it doesn't have rod bearing issues like the Tundra has. lol
until the fleets gobble them up and every person of means buys 2 and places another on order( heres looking at you ford maverick)
When they made and sold me a 350 olds diesel for my first truck. They lost all my money from that point on.
They are interested in being an Airline company. Make money on anything other then the core function, and declare bankruptcy when needed.
Years ago Progressive used to advertise a dongle you plug in to reduce your insurance rates
Now gm sells it directly to a brokerage to snitch you out to your insurance
It's sad that Ballard is having the problems it has. It's a good company that makes good products but its caught up in the global games. Sad days for Canada. Reminds me of Nortel and Blackberry/RIM Research In Motion. Great companies taken down by changing market forces.
Ballard has been around forever, it seems. I think I first heard of them in the 90s.
@@martinliehs2513 Yeah I think they started in the 80's but they created a usable fuel cell technology in the 90's.
Nortel was taken down by espionage and incompetent "leaders" playing games with each other instead of doing their jobs.
"First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker “In the Last Days, Good will be called Evil and Evil will be called Good.” Are We There YET ?
If elon wants ev to sell he needs to remove the battery and replace it with a gas tank and engine
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GENIUS ! ! !
This comment truly exposes how clueless you are
They should go back to the company they used to be like they were in the 90's when they built good trucks
I still have a zo6 had to buy heads before valve drop my Honda 580km had a blazer learnt that lesson now I have a corolla s 2014 brakes that's it what u are so true 👍
I remember watching Ballard Power back in the 90s. There was a rumor that they were going to be GM's supplier for a mythical Chevy fuel cell powered car. The stock shot up from less than $10 to over $100 in a few months. But the car never appeared. I guess it was too expensive..
truly whats the point of a fuel cell car,if you burn hydrogen from reformed methane?
@@kevinmccune9324 That's my thought as well.
I have a 15 challenger v-6 with ghe optional trak pack, performance pack, and sports package. No work needed 66,000 miles. A 97 Lexus lx450 with 265,000 miles, a 2005 Toyota Camry xle with about 158,000 miles. All dependable. Don’t think I’d ever, except for being under duress for my life, buy anything other than a Toyota product.
highly overated,poor mpg and performance are fairly durable,that being said still the best you can buy.
From WC, I have a 03 Ford Ranger. With 60+k and a 03 Honda CR-V with a few more miles, both payed for and when needed not often taken care of by a good mechanic like Scotty, so I have no desire to get a new money pit! I have a neighbor who payed over 30k for a 2013 Chevy 1/2 ton and keeps working on it all the time! I’ve never seen more than a few boards in it where as my Ranger (2 wheel drive, 5 sp) hauls what ever I need to haul in it, many times over the rate it should but just keeps on going! My money is in the bank, my neighbor has little to use if he needs some!
It's stupid. Make a new bare bones S-15(4x4) pickup with a nice turbo diesel boxer 4 for $15k. Bluetooth speaker system, a cellphone holder, Bluetooth backup camera, and self charging bluetooth TPMS. Use a mechanical ABS like Toyota has on their cheap pickup. Simple utilitarian interior, with an ashtray, decent cup holders, mechanically adjustable seats, mechanical Ebrake, real power steering, pop up door locks, 5 speed manual transmission, with a full size bed. No crew cab crap. Make one platform for the people that just want a simple, dead reliable small pickup truck that can fit a piece of plywood in the truck bed. We don't need it to haul 20 thousand pounds, or 3 tons in the back. 1000lb capacity is perfectly fine. We don't need it to go 150mph. 70 with enough left over to pass someone is fine. Give it enough torque to go 70 up a decently steep grade without the turbo kicking in is perfect. In fact give us a button to disable the turbo completely if we are not in a hurry. Give people purpose built vehicles again. I want a small commuter car, and a small pickup. I don't want bells and whistles. I will be getting a Tesla model 2 when it comes out. I would love a small pickup also. If that means getting an old S-15/Toyota/Nissan/Ford Ranger and fixing it up then fine. You don't get my money. I'd much rather buy a new small truck..but those don't exist any more.
Scotty talked me into buying a 2016 Camry with 56k orig miles. Price was $15,495. It's not new but broken in well with good maint records from CARFAX. Range anxiety level? ZERO. It routinely gets 410 miles per tank. Im expecting to drive it to 300,000 miles which being retired should last me until im 88 years old. LOL.
3:20 WHAT ABOUT... using OBD gauge clusters like ScanGauge and Ultra Gauge?
$24 million a year DEI hire.
Used to be a GM buyer, finally gave up on them, most of their cars are made in Mexico, Korea, and China anyway.
..and in France. Many GM cars are manufactured by STELLANTIS.
Just did a tune-up on my 95 T100. Runs great. 330,000 miles.
FWIW, there was a GM designed hybrid prototype in 1969. Opel Kadett based.
I drive 200 miles per day… EV’s makes PERFECT sense for my lifestyle.. I only want to save my wallet, not the World..
West Virginia?
sorry but you're whats wrong with the world, no care for anyone but yourself, if you were put into the place of a corporate executive of one of these companies you'd just be looking out for your bottom line and not of anything else...
WV?
😂😂😂@@stevedott715
He mean EV 😅
I deliver for jimmy johns. My nissan leaf is old and can only charge to 36 miles in range. But it gives me just enough to finish my 3 hour shift. EVs aren't for everyone. But if you can accept the limitations, some EVs can be pretty good. The only thing I've replaced is tires.
You can get a great deal on a used Bolt. 30% point of sale credit. These are good cars.
The Leaf is only good because of its used price. Nissan wanted to build it as cheap as possible so they didn’t allow for battery pack heating and cooling. Hot weather kills them quick so avoid driving too hard or long as weather heats up.
@@aussie2uGA Yeah, the weather does a number on the battery. But the repairs are virtually non- exsistant. It's a really good commuter vehicle.
Thank you Scotty...great info.
While all this loss is going on they are also relocating their Detroit HQ from Renaissance center to a new tower at Hudsons dept store on Woodward ave and spending a $ billion. Meanwhile the core of their operations is north 15 miles in Warren at the technical center. Maybe they should move near there? At least the freeways are empty so it’s a 15 minute ride.
Way to late.
let em make bad decisions from home,ms Barra is going to put them down the tubes( she is an attractive lass though)
Thanks for the video. GM just made my choice for me to get a 4Runner. Go woke go broke.
do not try to buy a toyota around here,the dealers think they have gold and will not negotiate.
Ford has right idea with budget small truck, Maverick. They just have to improve quality and availablity...and lower per unit margins. Giant F150 just too big, expensive for most people.
the us is very short on Electricity, no way to run all the EV
Drill Drill Drill Net zero is green murder!
Tesla model Y was the Best selling carmodel on planet Earth in year 2023 😊
@@mikafiltenborg7572 and now sales are slowing down for Tesla and Toyota is on the rise because people prefer hybrids
I drive an Expedition, I wish I had a Tahoe and my favorite car was an Accord. Love your content Scotty
I agree Scotty. They can't even make cars that work & last. Love how the ceos rationalize why they deserve to make so much.
How does just a normal straight thinking guy get a job running GM ? I bet I couldn't do any worse.
You could do better running the country than what we have now.
what about Roger?
As a fleet mechanic, I fixed the Ford trucks as they blew tranny seals and engines. The Chevys only broke the tailgate handle & blower motor resistors. All trucks were 2001-2010. I can’t figure out why everyone hates Chevy trucks, I’ve owned several and they were awesome. I grew up on Fords but I’ll never buy another one.
dang you had magic cheyys, most around here are toast and skeletonized by 200 k,the interior door handles are a joke.
I remember when Lincoln came out with the 1958 - 60 Continental they were so big a 6 ft 2 in tall person could lay on the seats and not touch the door of either side, they almost bankrupted Lincoln because they would not fit in garages.