This family of electric motors will drive GM’s new electric vehicles

GM will have 22 new EVs on sale by 2023, and they'll all use these motors.

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[Travis Butler]

You might as well ask Americans to stop being American if you're going to demand they stop driving massively oversized vehicles.

You know what?

Tough sh*t.

How many times have we been through this same fscking cycle since the first energy crisis in '73? We come out with smaller cars in response to the crisis; and as soon as the immediate crisis is over, people start buying big vehicles again... only to be caught flat-footed when the inevitable next crisis comes up. We never seem to learn; I expect Ford and GM to be screwed next time, after dropping standard cars from their lineup.

It's time to stop faffing around and break the cycle.

 

[Travis Butler]

You might as well ask Americans to stop being American if you're going to demand they stop driving massively oversized vehicles.

Please define "massively oversized". Thank you. Just because one young person with excellent knees can get in and out of a BRZ doesn't mean that I can, even though I'd like to. So I drive a Volvo XC60 for normal stuff and a Ford Ranger for hauling stuff. Both of these are stupidly heavy for their size but they have good entry access heights. But the electric versions will probably be be even heavier.

Funny, the rest of the world seems to manage just fine for those who aren't 'young people with excellent knees', without making large SUVs.

For that matter, the US managed just fine without SUVs for decades.

In what way is the SUV somehow 'special' or necessary for the US?