EVs Are Out, Gasoline Power Is In At GM’s Orion Plant
Don’t look now, but General Motors is pulling the plug on building EVs at its Orion facility in Michigan. Confirming the news yesterday, it will instead assemble an array of light-duty pickup trucks and the Cadillac Escalade, said to be all part of a $4 billion push to meet demand for gasoline-powered vehicles in this country.Local media, specifically The Freep (Detroit Free Press) were among the first to report on the story.
Related: EV pickup truck sales in the U.S. in Q2 2025, according to new Cox Auto data
I worked for GM and still do indirectly.
Mary Barra, CEO of GM, for the last 11 years and a Joe Biden pal, was adamant that GM go 100% electric. In so doing she stupidly lost 50% of GM’s Buick dealers who wouldn’t put up the money for her electric nonsense. GM stock has gone from $38 to $54 not exactly a stellar performance.
September 30th of this year – the $7,500 tax credit disappears for electric vehicle purchases. We’ll see what happens at that point but it won’t be good short term.
The only fly in the ointment is price of oil and I know some very smart people who see $150 oil a barrel. At current prices US drilling is way down in the Permian. There are other factors but gasoline demand is still growing world wide.
I cannot imagine anything less useful than a Hummer EV.
C’mon. What’s not to like about a battery operated hummer?
Yet, in the Lieberal Democratic Peoples Republic of Kanada, the government is tripling down on pushing EVs. Being an “Elbows Up!” retard has consequences.
L – I’m anticipating an advertisement featuring the drivers of E.V. vehicles waiting in line to charge up their battery pack. This in a blizzard, at -35 C, as their remaining battery power is draining quickly by running the electrically powered heater. The camera zooms in showing battery charge indicator edging into fully discharged.
The fear gripping one family in a E.V. Is alleviated, when the mother and children seek refuge
in a gas engined Uber vehicle. The E.V. vehicle battery has gone into the red zone.
The father retrieves a cattle prod from the trunk. Then he raises the hood, presses the cattle
prod to the electronic control processor and puts the electronic vehicle out of it’s misery.
The Uber driver takes the family to a black market for refurbished gas engined vehicles. The family gathers their most cherished items into the box of their newly acquired pickup truck. They head to the nearest Alberta border crossing station and ask for asylum…