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That’s true, but Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis have a custom E-GMP platform which has been allowing them to crank out EVs left and right and they’re selling like mad. I think it’s more that US car manufacturers are just so entrenched in the “we can’t fail” mindset from being bailed out time and time again that they really don’t care. No matter what they do they’re still gonna sell and make money. They have no chance of going out of business so they can just execute anything lazily. Tesla got lazy and haven’t released any “new model” in a decade (every Tesla looks the same besides the cybertruck). Ford only made one EV. Chevy made one that takes an hour to charge 20%. GM is only making $100k+ vehicles. It’s the exact opposite of how china is building evs.
BMW is making EVs around the same price as Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis and they’re all doing just fine with it. New cool models, no janky things like GM or Tesla. Just normal cars but electric and a few “tech” improvements.