Featured Goodbye Chevy Bolt. GM announces it will be discontinued.

they actually announced the limited production when they announced the arrival.
they wanted to build some for all the people who complained that they couldn't get one when production ended.
after they complete production of the new model based on the old architecture, a new family of bolts will come out based on all new ev architecture they are working on now, including battery tech with teslas old head of battery engineering.
of course, all of this is under close scrutiny with the current ev atmosphere in the USA

 

IMHO; limited short run creates an artificial shortage, so they can keep retail prices high. I'm sure GM has figured out that these ON again, OFF again tariffs would make it impossible to reliability source parts at a price target to maintain profitability. This is why they fear Chinese EVs. China's EV supply chain is vertically integrated, similar to Henry Ford's model-T supply chain. The Chinese learn their lessons well and remember history; unlike some of us that are doomed to repeat it.

 

everyone fears the Chinese except the ignorant.

gm is learning about limited supply success from Toyota

 

agreed, but there are ties between the government and the businesses that go beyond the norm

 

Like wanting backdoors into software for government use?

 

One possibility, or flooding markets to drive competition out

 

Or using slave labor to build cars

 

A Brief History of the U.S. Trying to Add Backdoors Into Encrypted Data
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data

This hit was ironic.
Chinese Hackers Used U.S. Government-Mandated Wiretap Systems
Chinese Hackers Used U.S. Government-Mandated Wiretap Systems

Weren't the Japanese once accused of that?

China can do that because US companies moved manufacturing there to use that labor to build their goods, and our government encouraged that off shoring.

It isn't like the US government has been hands off when it comes to businesses. Some military actions may even have been involved.

 

True, but some governments are worse than others. If you can’t see it, I won’t be able to convince you.
Some people just want cheap goods, nothing else matters

 

I avoid goods made in China when possible, even looking for US made.

China has power because we gave it to them. Not just by making cheap goods there, but also by abandoning soft diplomacy, and having history that has large parts of the world see our government as one of the worse ones.