Here are some cool Ampera E videos I dug up on YouTube. We all know the Bolt and the Ampera E are the same car so here's some candy for your eyes. I think the Bolt program director needs to hire Opel's marketing department!!
Here are some cool Ampera E videos I dug up on YouTube. We all know the Bolt and the Ampera E are the same car so here's some candy for your eyes. I think the Bolt program director needs to hire Opel's marketing department!!
Perfectly reasonable.
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These remind me of what car commercials used to be - you know, actually describing your product's features and trying to sell it.
Not silly gimmicks and scenarios.
It's just a change in accounting. Instead of GM NA wholesaling cars to GM Europe, it wholesales them to PSA until PSA decides they want to cancel the line. IIRC, GM Europe was legally a subsidiary company, not technically part of GM NA, so that profits there didn't have to be report could stay in Europe and not be taxed again in the US.
I've seen an Autoline network report from a company, that disect cars and puts a price tag on every part it is made of, that GM loses about 7500 us dollars on every BoltEV sold.
If you search Youtube for Autoline network BMW i3 afterhours, you'll see how they do it.
Sure, someone on the outside guessing what's happening inside GM, and the guess is repeated as fact. It's like those who claimed GM was losing $150,000 per Volt sold based on wacky assumptions.
That may be true if you include r&d and only account for first year sales but with each year of sale the loss they talk about usually disappears and becomes profit. A truly new and innovative car will never have a chance of showing the profits the way a car that uses a technology that has been fine tuned for production and cost efficiency for the past 100 years!
Ok, explain to me then, why is GM flooding California with Bolts, which stay unsold on dealer lots, while there are so many preorders in South Korea, Canada, Norway, which are not fulfilled and I bet, that they are being sold at a full price and not with 5+kUSD discounts I'm seeing in California.
It's the same fuzzy math by assuming all development costs must be paid off in year one.
Magically by year two they "lose" $3700 each.
The real loss is cost of parts + assembly - is that positive or is it negative? It's positive.
The development costs are recouped over a lifetime of the vehicle and it's derivatives (any other vehicle sharing these bolt components will also pay down that cost).
To count it all up front is just silly as it's a sliding scale that goes from infinity to nothing as time goes on.
Can you imagine what the figure would be for Toyota's Mirai? Which almost surely is being sold at a loss per unit (based solely on manufacturing cost, not counting R&D which makes it far worse). Wonder why no one's talking about that one?
I suspect, based on little evidence, that this is a tax issue somehow. That perhaps European car manufacturers transferring vehicles between subsidiaries into Europe are taxed differently than European car wholesalers buying cars from non-Euro companies and importing them. Or some similar quirk.
In my opinion, GM was prepared to sell the AmperaE at a loss when Opel was still a part of the GM. Now, when Opel is owned by the PSA, GM wants a full price.
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