Innovation: Is GM capable of quality hybrids?
Can the Volt buck the trend?Many times I've read that GM is going to set the new standard of hybrid and electric vehicles with the Chevy Volt. It will be the most innovative technology on the road many have claimed.
While I find the Volt to be revolutionary, at least in concept, I've long worried that it won't make financial sense for most consumers, especially in the short-to-midterm. Moreover, I've never felt the Volt was an excuse not to produce more hybrid cars like today's Toyota Prius.
Yet, the real question might be, is GM capable of such revolutionary innovation?
According to a new JD Power supplier survey, GM is considered the least innovative of the top 10 automakers.
Labels: Chevy Volt electric vehicle concept, GM, Hybrid Vehicles, toyota prius
posted by Dahcredyns at
8:03 AM
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This follows in step with the larger questions of whether GM can build anything with a quality level comparable to foreign manufacturers or Ford, period. GM has focused on 1 major innovation, the Volt, for the last few years. The rest of their lineup is anything but. Gm has a history of missing the boat or innovating themselves into disaster (80's diesels, or V 8-6-4 to name two).
Please, just finish kicking and circle the drain one final time already, preferably without my tax dollars and obviously without my discretionary dollars.
We're already well over $50 billion of tax payer money invested into GM. So, I'm sure we'll be pumping more into GM before we get any of our money back.
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But why should GM even bother to innovate? All they have to do is keep begging from Uncle Sam.
you know NISSAN BOUGHT the right to use Toyotas hybrid technology for their Altima, so why could not GM do same ?? Would give them the prob 2 year time it will take for them to be able to make their own competitive COMPACT quality hybrid for a price around 20k in meantime :)
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but Nissan isn't happy with that arrangement. they are still working on a proprietary hybrid drive, and tGhosn continues to claim that EVs, not hybrids, are Nissan's focus.
as for GM, GM already has developed two hybrid powertrains, and the dual mode hybrid powertrain is being upgraded into a plug-in hybrid powertrain.
thus, i don't think GM really needs Toyota's technology. They need vision.
GM really screwed up it's dual mode powertrain by being overly focused on large SUVs and trucks as the reason for its hybrid drive.
i'd like to see them scale the dual mode powertrain down so that it could cost-effectively make sense in small cars, but i've not even heard of that as an idea within GM. instead, they are going to upgrade their BAS drive with lithium, but I'm not sure that's the kind of innovation they really need.
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Are any of you mechanics? Didn't think so. I'm sick of hearing the same old liberal excuse of "GM building bad quality cars". I've owned and worked on GM vehicles since the 70s and as long as you take care of them they will outlast any POS Japanese import. Hybrids are not GM's game and they will probably fail at it, but for the past 80 years GM has been building some amazing vehicles that your all completely ignorant of.
last anon-
So, is Consumer Reports ignorant? Is JD Power, etc?
So, the Corvair was safe at every speed?
I mean, c'mon. Sure GM has improved its quality, relatively speaking, but go back a decade or two and look at the analyst data.
how can anyone take you seriously when your claims don't match the facts provided by decades of quality studies.
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