General Motors CEO Mary Barra has been named as a recipient of the 2021 Deming Cup Award. Presented by the W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at the Columbia Business School, the Deming Cup Award is an annual accolade that recognizes business leaders for “outstanding merit in operations and for fostering a culture of continuous improvement within their organizations.”
The Deming Cup Judging Committee includes figures from both industry and academia, with co-chairs Samuel Palmisano, Center for Global Enterprise Chairman, and Terry Lundgren, Chairman and CEO, Retired, of Macy’s, Inc. Winners of the 2021 Deming Cup Award include both GM CEO Mary Barra, as well as executive chairman of Merck, Kenneth Frazier.
“Under Mary’s leadership, GM invested in electric vehicles and self-driving cars,” said Deming Center Advisory Board member, Kristin Peck. “They let go of outmoded operations and made innovation a top priority. Mary’s goal for GM to achieve a net-zero carbon future and introduce 30 new electric vehicles by 2025 is pretty audacious – and I think Deming would be extremely proud.”
By the end of 2025, it’s estimated that 40 percent of General Motors’ portfolio will consist of all-electric vehicles, with a broad spectrum of segments covered, including crossovers, SUVs, and pickup trucks. GM has also committed to achieving the number-one electric vehicle market share in North America, with Mary Barra stating that she expects GM to catch up to the current number-one EV market share holder, Tesla, in U.S. electric vehicle sales by 2025.
To that end, GM has committed $35 billion in investments towards electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles. A selection of the upcoming General Motors electric vehicles includes the Cadillac Lyriq luxury crossover, the GMC Hummer EV off-roader, the Chevy Silverado EV pickup, and the Cruise Origin self-driving ride sharing vehicle.
In order to produce all these new EVs, GM is building several new production facilities, including new GM Ultium battery production facilities in Lordstown, Ohio, and Spring Hill, Tennessee.
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Deserved, GM is right on the cusp of reaping fruit from Mary’s visions, and by this time next year even the naysayers will run out of talking points.
It’s gonna be good next year has been their motto for about 20 years.
Looking at what’s in sale right now is mostly substandard and not really that competitive.
Tahoe is their only bright spot and they’re overpriced.
“achieving a net-zero carbon future”, “introducing 30 new electric vehicles by 2025” … Reminds me of when Obama won a Nobel prize before he ever took office. We saw how that worked out.
We’ve all been reading and hearing about gm being on the cusp of something big for as long as I can remember. Nothing ever pans out. Excellence is never achieved. Their ground-breaking new products always melt under the bright light of the reviewers and ultimately fizzle in the marketplace.
I hope you’re right Donavan but I’d say any award right now for Mary Barra’s big roll of the dice with her triple zero plan is premature. Let’s wait till 2027 at least before we start heaping accolades on a lifer executive at a company with a poor track record for innovating.
GM not innovating? driven a HummerEV? C8 Z06? Lyriq? Cruise Origin? Tried Gen 2 Supercruise? Been in Factory Zero?
IMO GM is definitely innovating, and creating some of the best products I can remember under Mary Barra. I still can find things to critique, but overall Mary Barra has done a great job, and this EV transition gives GM a chance to remake the company. I like the in sourcing, and partnerships GM is putting together (the one today with Posco is a bigger deal than anyone realizes yet). GM not only have 50% of Ultium Cell LLC, but now going deeper into the supply chain to control Ultium LLC’s biggest material supply chain.
If I had one critique its focus on core markets, I wish GM had a Model Y competitor today, but talking to insiders its coming, and GM realizes what is great about Tesla, and how to catch up, it just takes time.
Donovan,
When I say gm has a poor record for innovating, I’m speaking of all their past attempts to do so. The company produces a quality, reliable product as long as they’re building big SUVs and trucks using long-proven technology. It’s when they veer off into something new that it has turned into a nightmare for consumers so many times. One could cite the Bolt today or Diesel engines from 40 years ago. So many times when gm innovated, it was fraught with problems and consumers were left to suffer.
GM is innovating again; I’m not arguing that. Rather I’m saying this could be like their radical new FWD X-Cars many years ago or their all-new 8-speed automatic transmission just a few years ago. I could cite many examples but the point is it usually starts well but doesn’t end well. What seems great at the outset is ultimately revealed to be under engineered, compromised, and problematic. Given this track record, I wouldn’t start handing out awards to Mary Barra just yet. At this point I don’t even think her company has an electric car consumers can buy. They’ve got a lot of hype over a useless 9,100 pound off-road EV and a model withdrawn from sale due to battery fires while the competitors have proven EVs available for purchase today.
I hope gm succeeds but so many examples from the past make one skeptical.
Lmao have you driven any of those vehicles you just named? Oh let me guess big Wall Street stock boy gets special privileges.
Almost nobody has driven those and that’s kind of the point. They have a lot of, I wouldn’t quite say great but flashy ideas but can never execute on them. They focus on either the marketing or the production but never both and they consistently flop. They should never have been bailed out but instead bought up by a competent organization. Meanwhile, the things that do work and the things that are important to their customers are neglected, despite their claims to making the point of talking to their customer-base throughout the development process.
They’re rushing these higher-tech and electric vehicles to market when they can’t even keep heated seats in their trucks for the winter. Pathetic.
Congratulations and best wishes. I truly hope this business plan succeeds. It’s the biggest stack of chips wagered by GM since Billy Durant put General Motors together in the early 1920’s.
Mary Barra is an inspiration for humanity. Bravo.
ARE YOU NUTS !!!!!!! Must be a relative or Barra herself.
As much as I dont 100% love electric vehicles, I trust that GM is going in the right direction. Just please keep the Camaro and Corvette fun and exciting for us enthusiasts.
They’re the future even if not “today”.
GM is “going to be” the leader they say, right now they were fast out of the gate with a meh Bolt that is part of one of the largest recalls in modern history.
Donovan: Radical automotive innovations take time to work out. When Henry Ford came out with the Model B with an economical V8 in 1932, the new V8 was problematic and challenging the first year. It took over a year after release to work out the bugs in this engine. Ford was initially producing 40 new V8’s an hour. When they got everything right this V8 was stellar and used by Ford into the early 1950’s. It saved Ford from being overtaken by Chevrolet, and made Ford big bucks.
My point being is that big automotive innovations are not instantaneous and take lots of consumer use and time to work out. For me, I like to wait three years before purchasing a vehicle with a major innovation.
The battery fire situation with the collaboration with LG of South Korea shook me. Tesla (Musk) went with Panasonic. Am surprised that GM didn’t go with somebody like Emerson, Phillips, Siemens, ABB, Toshiba, Bosch as examples. Phillips is super. South Koreans are OK since they learned from the Japanese during the Japanese occupation but are not near as advanced as the Japanese or Germans. South Korean products are OK but mediocre. Just look at Kia vehicles. OK but nothing to write home about. Korean cars are a little better than Chinese products. Would you ever buy Chinese tools from Harbor Freight? My case stated.
David There is always risk involved with anything new. That is just part of innovation. We had an issue on Apollo 13 but we over came it and continued on to more successful missions.
GM has had a history of great innovation over the years but too often the innovation was rushed to market before it was reliable and before it was in many cases affordable. Look at the 8 6 4 Cadillac. GM had the drop displacement years ago but it failed due to the lack of good affordable advanced computers.
In the case of Electric I have noted a change. GM when they did the Impact EV just put them out as a lease to learn and for image but they knew they could never sell them and support them due to cost and that they really were not what the public as a whole wanted. This was one of the first times I saw GM hold back where they needed to.
In the mean time they though the Volt was the way to go but as advances were made they committed to the full EV. This set them back again but was the right thing to do as continued investment in Hybrids was going to be wasted in the long term view. Even Toyota recently has changed from their no Electric plan to now work on full electric cars to offer with various sized batteries to offer different pricing and ranges.
Again GM could have pushed the Hummer and the coming Cadillac out a year or two ago in a more rushed program or less developed state. They have not done that. Just look to the Ford Lightning. Ford rushed out the truck to say they have one but compared to the others that are soon coming out it will pale. It is much based on a current truck where the others are built from the ground up as full electric trucks. GM will have the Silverado E next year and Ford is building their own Ground up but it will be a few more years.
As for the companies. Boarders do not mean much anymore and many of these battery deals are not customer but partner deals. GM is doing the designing with some help from LG but LG is more the MFG vs designer. GM is also working with others as they announce this week a new battery partner to make sure they control the battery production. As we go along many companies that can’t afford to control battery production will come to GM and Tesla to buy batteries and systems for their cars.
As for LG. LG is a very large company and they do many great things. Right now they are the leader in OLED production and the coming Micro LED screens. They also lead in other areas too.
As for country. Harbor Freight is an example of cost containment. Yes the tools there are from poor to ok. But based on what you pay you get what you pay for. On the other hand this country is also where most of our computers and Cell Phones come from and they are built as well as anything out there. People tend to forget they can do anything as well if you don’t cut corners for cost.
I deal with parts from China and to ensure quality we have people on site to oversee and test production. Due to this we have a very good product. In the case of GM batteries they are going to be build in Lordstown. We again need to have people in the plant to make sure the quality is up and no corners are cut. Human nature is not just to one country.
The other factor GM is facing here is that every company is faces with the same future here. Everyone has got to make the changes to survive and GM for once is out in front of the others. Tesla took the risk to be first but the scale of the industry will soon fill the market. It is easy for an upstart when they are the only fish in the lake. They will be faces with getting product out more often and on time and that has been an issue there.
As for the key to all of this is not if but when something happens how GM deals with it. They can not do as in the past and just ignore even small issues. They will need to respond and make these issues right for the customers if they plan to retain these customers. In a growing market like the EV market people can leave very easily to a new up start else where. I was pleased to see they met the Bolt issue head on and it now is not hurting them. It may cost a bit now but in the long run it will comeback in new and retained sales. I just hope this plan remains in place with the other cars and that is to be seen yet.
The entire industry is going to change much in the next 15 years. Not just the cars but how we build, supply and fuel, sell, reclaim and more.
While GM is in a good spot they still have many challenges to face ands so far so good. The next 15 years will give us the answers.
One key is Mary has done a good job so far but she will not are here in 15 years so who ever follows needs to be someone of the same where they can complete the job and not get greedy for money or market share in the change over at the expense of the customers care and the quality.
I think this must be what happened to the 4.2 DOHC Blackwing V-8. It was the engine Cadillac had needed for so long. We all waited and waited and waited for it. I had such fervent hopes for it. Blackwing, I thought, was finally going to move Cadillac into the realm of Tier 1 luxury car status, something I very much wanted to see.
It finally showed up. They built a few of them and then, inexplicably it is withdrawn. It was all very hush, hush. There were videos of the CT6 Blackwing in the service bay and rumors of catastrophic engine failures but I never heard what exactly happened. The official story from gm seemed to be that they were going with EVs instead so it had no future. If that’s the case though, why not build it and sell it for a few years till EVs really arrive. It all made no sense. In the meantime, before Cadillac goes all-electric, it could’ve greatly bolstered the brand’s image and that enhanced image would’ve primed them for the EV future.
I’ve always believed there is a story to be told there but gm isn’t telling it. Maybe gm is different today and unlike with V8-6-4, they withdrew their costly new hi-tech engine from the market when consumers began to experience engine failures. In the 80’s, gm let consumers figure it out and deal with it themselves. Today maybe they quietly addressed it themselves by not selling any more cars with another bad engine. The point of that though it that once again gm seems to not be able to handle new technologies. Obviously a DOHC V8 engine is not at all new technology but for gm it was. The Blackwing was such a promising engine yet today we’re back to the old 6.2 OHV V-8 In Cadillacs which is based on an ancient basic design.
As I said above, gm’s history with innovating makes me extremely leery of something as all-new as their ultimum EVs. As they say, a leopard cannot change its spots and so I wouldn’t expect gm to be able to pull-off a total reinvention of the car without problems, perhaps with serious problems. As Mary Barra well knows, gm couldn’t do something as basic as an ignition switch without killing people and ultimum is much more complicated than an electrical switch. Thus, I’d hold off on any awards for gm and Mary until they’ve actually sold some cars and proven themselves.
The truth is GM for decades ran not as one company with one collective plan. They for the most part were a 7 headed monster if not more.
Not working as one has created added cost as they often stocked the same parts under 5 different part numbers and purchased them as 5 different prices. Part vendors confirmed they took GM over the years.
Also GM competed divisions against each others with Chevy having the most say as they were the highest volume. John Schinella confirmed this to me.
Case in point GM built the Corvette and had a good run started with he Fiero even after Chevy tried to kill it many times. It never got the funding it needed and by the time the car was right the plant the car was in was under production. Part of this was Pontiacs fault as they were banking on the GM 80 program to fill out the plant. But the Corvette people were worried a bout lost sales tot he coming DOHC V6 Fiero GT. It is in the Heritage collection today.
If the leader ship at GM in the early 80’s had led they would have gotten Pontiac and Chevy to work together to compliment each other and not compete with each other. Imagine the Fiero being the lower end and the Corvette taking the higher end and work together not to step on each other. GM would win with two cars done right. In stead they pissed off the union at Pontiac and killed a car that could have done a good job for them and not hurt the Vette.
Cadillac is another example. There were competing groups in GM that had different ideas what Cadillac should be. The Blackwing group lost.
The one thing the EV program has done is bring GM together working as one group. This is the first time in many decades they are working for one good with one goal.
Will this hold up I believe this time it will as much of the old competing groups are gone.
The entire industry at once less Toyota pretty much committed to EV. It happened when the price of batteries dropped below 100 per KwH. Projections have the cost at $36 KwH in the coming years. This was the greatest issue.
Range for the most part is not an issue. If the Hummer is doing 329 Miles smaller and light less powerful models should easily see 400 miles and maybe 500 soon. But to be honest how often do most people need 500 miles in one day?
If GM was going out on the EV ledge by themselves I would be worried but the entire industry is all working to the same goals now.
I for years said this was never going to happen and never going to work but with the way I see things going today I can see in 15 years this is very viable.
I work in the industry for racing and parts and even my industry is now working to the change as we now see this is no longer a bluff. Many MFG are now working to find their place in the new world.
We may still see some crazy stuff come. Automakers may become more like Apple and just design the cars and engineer them. It may be left to contract assembly plants to build them. Automakers like GM may also sell and license tech like Intel to others and make more money that way than cars. The door is wide open to what may go on in the future as there are so many possibilities.
To be honest there will be issues and problems for all. Those who address them best will set the tone for the future of their companies. What you did in the past may not mean much and this is a reset for most.
As it was going the entire auto industry was dying a slow death. Cost were getting higher and higher and regulations tougher and tougher to meet.
With electronics they can make cars with less parts and retain cost while increasing profits.
My major concerns to learn is how will the value of an EV hold up with ever fast growing tech developments. Will a 5 year old car be as valuable as a Apple 3 phone? Will they sell cars like Apple does their upgrade plan on phones?
Also I fear they may regulate even collector and race ICE cars out. There is no reason for that but some will try.
Is the GM plan a sure thing. No but it is the best shot they have had in many years of decline and miss management. GM started to die 50 years ago not just the last 20 years. The refusal to change adapt and right size for the market was killing them like a cancer. They were a very dysfunctional family.
There is still some infighting on some programs at GM. You still see it at times. But we see less of it.
C8.R,
The Fiero was another fiasco. I was a kid back then and loved GM, loved Pontiac, and loved the Fiero. Absolutely loved them. I wanted a Fiero GT once I was old enough to drive. When the stories began to circulate about them catching on fire, I didn’t believe it. I thought it was all overhyped by the crowd that hated American cars.
Then one day my Dad and I were on our way back from soccer practice and up ahead there is a huge plume of smoke. As we reached the source of the fire, there were two shocked teens, not much older than me, in a state of total panic. Fully engulfed in flames was a Pontiac Fiero. It’s enduraflex body panels were melting away to reveal its novel space frame that I’d heretofore only seen in pictures.
My Dad and I helped the young guys who’d been driving it and got the Fire Department out. The Fiero was a total loss and it was crushing to me personally. The stories weren’t lies. The Fiero really did spontaneously combust. Shortly thereafter GM withdrew the Fiero from the market.
While I still have sentimental soft spot for the Fiero, I now see it as just another in a long line of promising GM cars that were seriously compromised and under developed. Back in the Fiero’s time, as is the case today, GM’s big BOF, RWD V8 products were fine and have endured without issue but the more innovative stuff (Fiero, V8-6-4, Diesels, FWD X-Cars, etc.) all turned out badly for the company.
Well I can tell more on the Fiero than most as I bought one new and still have it.
Yes fires did happen but no more than any other car. But like a Corvette the body burning makes it more dramatic.
The fact still is GM had no idea what to do with Pontiac and let Chevy over ride the other divisions. The bottom line was the leadership of GM failed to lead.
They on other programs tried to cut budgets as they were loosing money due to poor or no real management and AC out ability.
All this started in the 60’s and got worse as time moved on. GM had too many models, too many divisions, too many plants, too many dealers. The market changed and they failed to change with it. Then they tried to cheap their way out.
Today they are trying to anyone for the decades of management sins. They are finally smaller and in a better place size wise. They still have too many dealers and plants. They are out of markets that had little return for the products they had. They literally hit reset.
Now with the EV movement everyone is hitting reset. GM has a good shot of pulling this off if they get it right. For once they have people willing to make tough and not always popular calls for the companies future.
It is not just my opinion but for the first time in a long time investment groups are liking GM again.
I would recommend Bean Counters vs Car Guys a book by Bob Lutz. He gives a glimpse of the problems he found at GM when he arrived. He arrived 10-15 years too late to do much. All he could do is get them ready for a bail out and home they get it.
If this EV deal happened 20 years ago GM would have been sold out or partnered up for survival. Today Honda came to them not the other way around.
C8.R,
I know you love the Fiero and I do too but the fires were worse than in other cars. To say they weren’t is to not be honest. They were due to an engine oil level issue and an engineering failure that I’m sure you’re more familiar with than me. They recalled the early cars to fix the problem. At one time I wanted to believe it was overblown but it wasn’t. It was a real issue caused by GM trying to do something completely new (a mid-engined car) and do it as cheaply as possible. As I said, I personally witnessed a Fiero burn to the ground and so I know it was something that actually happened.
Likewise, though I’ve seen virtually no Bolts on the road near me, one caught on fire at a home nearby so I know that’s real too.
Ci there is a long list of cars that suffered fires much more regularly than the Fiero. was just the fact that the ones that did burned dramatically due to the body.
The issue was exclusively to the 2.5-liter and the 1984 model which caught fire. By mid-1987, the 1984 Fieros were catching fire at a rate of about 20 per month. Those 260 cars which burned made up just 0.7 percent of all Fieros sold. Also, unlike the case of the Ford Pinto, no deaths resulted from Fiero fires, and there were only ten cases of minor injury.
At that point the recall went out and the fire issue pretty much went away.
.7% of near 400,000 cars is a very low number. I know Kia, Hyundai, Tesla and Ford all have shown higher percentages just as Ferrari and Lamborghini.
To be honest I have seen a ton of Fieros on the road and even in the junk yard and I have yet to see one that was burned in person. They had many issues but fire was not one. I do know the Fire issue was mostly related to the 4 valve cover leaking oil and high under hood temps. All Iron dukes leaked oil but most were front engine and the temps were lower to prevent the fire issue.
Note I have seen a couple burnt Tesla’s.
Anyway fix the valve cover fix the issue.
I saw a Firebird burn too but just because I saw one does not make them an issue.
I do agree the issues were due to trying to go cheap or in this case GM would not let them have the Opel engine they wanted. So they were stuck with the cheap Duke.
Again it was a case of GM not working as one and more as a mess of a bunch of completing divisions.
As one great man said “A house divided can not stand”. In the end GM collapsed.
Did your mother leave you under a bridge as a child because you are height challenged?
I always get nervous when awards are given out for intentions rather than results. Tomorrow we’re promised a bright new future. Today GM products are being sold without heated seats or heated steering wheels. The rapid transition to EVs is either a terrific move or a crushing defeat. It will largely depend on the price point, range, and reliability.
Guess the Bolt disaster secured the award?
Mary & her complete management team need to GO! Worst customer service ever, just get worst by the day with the lifter problem!
As a 2012 Volt owner, I would hesitate to be giving awards out to GM for the great things that may be coming. I do not hold my breath waiting for GM to give me something to buy next. The second Volt was a step backwards and I did not buy one. I have had many GM cars and the Volt has been the best so far.
I know it isn’t easy to come up with new tech, but GM always has time to bring out yet another gas powered SUV. If it was 2008, I might be interested.
But the Volt allowed me to move on, and if GM doesn’t deliver something at least as good, I’m gone for good.
GM was like many others and had range anxiety so they came up with the Volt to cover that.
As time came on they finally realized that the future was in full EV and that the money in hybrids were short term. They jumped ahead like VW and others to just go full electric.
Even Toyota who was going to remain Hybrid is now moving to full electric that they announced this week. They plan to sell cars by range and price so you can choose what works for your. If you never leave town you buy the smaller cheaper EV. If you travel much you buy the larger more expensive car with more range.
As for the Gas SUV models GM has to build them as that is what is paying for everything till they get more models out of the coming tech.
Let’s not forget the Chevy Citation, and the diesel pick up. Oh and the Caddy Seville diesel. Customers were burned in the wallet with those junkers.
Thanks C8.R
For the life of me with our universities, trade schools, brainpower, diversity, along with natural resources, transportation networks, accounting systems, and automation why can’t we produce piece parts in the USA?
I can understand the Tremec deal where the Mexican government mandates that vehicles sold in Mexico must have transmissions built by homeboys, and with this mandate and transmission plant it makes sense to build other transmission product.
Caterpillar is under a similar gun in Brazil where certain machines in certain product families must be 51% made in Brazil by homeboys.
But as an example Caterpillar has moved 100% of their USA track type machine undercarriage production into China 🇨🇳 under a wholly owned unit called Asiatrak. Now US users in need of undercarriage parts are waiting for ships to unload these parts at West coast ports.
Caterpillar also produces motor grader cutting edges in China. The edges came into the USA with made in China stickers on each blade. Caterpillar changed their policy on affixing these stickers since it was spooking users and creating substitutions. Particularly after the Chinese Covid release.
With Midwest metalworking know how and farm belt work ethic along with modern applied science, aka technology, there is no reason piece part production cannot be brought back into the USA.
We got caught with our pants down on chip production. Now Intel is going hog wild and spending bazillions on new chip plants in the Southwest to relieve this vacuum.
It’s back to reaction versus proactive strategy.
GM and Biden are in reactive strategy on EV’s due to the savants promulgating saving the climate due to pollution emissions. My call is the biggest source of pollution on this planet is 8 billion+ souls and growing along with this masses tremendous wastefulness. Just look at the garbage that the McDonald’s restaurant system in one day generates, or the bazillions of empty plastic water bottles generated each day. How about the oceans of sewage treatment or lack thereof. ???
And most rest of the world is hell bent on electron movement by thermal coal generating stations.
God help us!
It comes down to pure economics. It is no secret and we all participate in it.
Everyone complains about Walmart imports yet they still buy there.
We used to be in an American economy but today we are in a global economy. You have three choices. Make it here and pay more. Make it there and pay less. Or make it here and earn less. People generally choose the second choice.
Cat could keep their production here but it would add to their cost and a decline in their profits. They are already competing against many Asian companies making earth moving equipment as a cost advantage overseas. Odds are if they did not move production they would fail like many of the farm tractor companies that are gone.
We can use tariff but the guy we elected will not use that to level the field.
Look we can make high wages here but expect to pay more as we are now doing since the increase in min wage. They like to blame the virus but wage increases are covered either by higher cost or cutting cost like in jobs.
In todays world everyone wants to be a millionaire but you can’t do that and expect to shop cheap at Walmart.
Many of my vendors have tried to keep in Titus country but they had to make changes as if they did not they would have gone under or been under staffed.
We need to teach people to get ahead here you need to get educated at least high school and learn a skill. Their are tons of skilled trades needing help but no one wants to get their hand dirty. My father in law made six figures welding. And they always were looking for help.
Just jacking up min wage is not how you fix things.
Also in an economy you will have people in all classes. If we were all the same we would be like Cuba.
Liberals giving liberals “intention” awards now, eh?
Yup, this is the Award the Puppet Masters give you for being such a good puppet of theirs.
you should not receive an award like this before the proof is out. Gm may or may not be successful with electrics. Their current lineup is pretty mehhhh.
This is like Obama receiving Nobel Prize and then doing nothing to deserve it.
You should earn something not be given it based on guessing into the future.
Nick,
I think that right. GM should’ve never been bailed out. US taxpayers lost $11 Billion on GM. At the very least all of GM’s lifer leaders like Ruess and Barra should’ve been swept out. Our government literally bailed them out but let the same management team that’d bankrupted the company stay and eventually be back in control.
There are grandiose plans and a lot of hype but gm is not leading in EVs now; they don’t even have a product currently for sale in that space. They’re not leading in any other category either except big SUVs. GM’s market share is at or near a record low. If the big Triple Zero plan doesn’t work, gm will be back begging before Congress. They just don’t have a well-rounded portfolio to live off of if EVs don’t work and with fuel prices surging and potentially killing demand for their gas hog SUVs. They have literally nothing left, unlike say Toyota that has a balanced portfolio. That’s not good management even if Deeming thinks it is.
I’m glad Uncle Sam bailed GM and Chrysler out. Otherwise foreign automakers would have 90+% of the pie. Uncle Sam also totally supports defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics as examples. Also cyber terror countermeasure contractors like Adobe and and whole bunch of small and mid size software outfits based in Silicon Bluffs South of Salt Lake City next to the huge NSA data center at Camp Williams, Utah. Uncle Sam supports Raytheon and many contractors at the Nevada Test Site in Mercury, Nevada. Uncle Sam owns 87% of Nevada.
So don’t bash Uncle Sam for saving GM. Our US money is now solely valued as intangible specie backed by the productive efforts of the Amercan workforce getting their asses out of bed and producing something of value be it a product or service and our creative brainpower to produce the best of these items.
GM is so out of touch and keeps over promising and under delivering. Mary is an overpaid tool and GM lost it’s way a long time ago. They should have been allowed to go under instead of being bailed out with taxpayer funds.
Wonderful news! Maybe Mary and the board of directors could focus a bit on innovating the delivery side of their value stream. You can produce most innovative cars on the planet. But, if you cant get completed and sold cars delivered to dealers so customers ring the cash register, how will you convert all that investment into profit? Here’s my real world example. Truck was built week of 9/27/21. Unit is not short any microchips. First estimated delivery date to dealer..11/25/21…next ..12/6/21..as of this week pushed out to 12/24/21. Truck is traveling from Flint to Central Kansas.. Demming is all about lean innovation, cycle time reduction, and removing bottlenecks in the value stream. I see the local Dodge dealers have trucks and cars in stock. But what do I know. Congratulations Mary!
What a crock. Leadership in innovation, hah! GM is all hat, no cattle when it comes to EVs. Seriously a hummer and one Cadillac is meeting the moment?! Will sell maybe 10K of both in 2022. Meanwhile Tesla and the Chinese will be preparing their burial plot to bankruptcy.
C8.R Your point is well taken on GM vehicle fires, and vehicle fires in general. I would never own a gasoline fueled vehicle. Seen too many burn on the roadways and many black scorched asphalt pavement patches on the interstates. That’s why I’m a huge fan of diesels. Light oil is not as volatile and flammable as gasoline. Also gasoline engines run much hotter than diesel engines. Diesel engines also have thicker blocks for pressures and heat sinks. Am still a huge fan of diesels even with the DEF, or as some people term it urine fluid requirements.
Given an award for running GM into the ground AGAIN. Perfect.
So…30 new vehicles in 4 years.. Up from 0 today. Used to be 1. But not anymore. Seems like she’s doing great at delivering on that promise. I see no potential problems with this “plan”.