[GMGuy]

General Motors CEO Mary Barra said in an interview with Yahoo! Finance that they plan to sell more EVs than Tesla and any of the other automakers by the middle of the decade.

Do you think GM can pull it off by 2025? Or is she just being ambitious? I think it's possible but it would be close. Vote below and let's see what everyone thinks.

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/07/mary-barra-says-by-mid-decade-gm-will-be-selling-more-evs-in-the-us-than-anyone-including-tesla/

 

[ChargedSilvE]

It's already 2022 and I doubt GM will do it by 2025, maybe closer to 2030.

The end of that article summed up the rest of my thoughts:

"But I feel that if GM truly wanted to beat Tesla, it would have already — or even before Tesla was founded. It would have found a way to make EVs mainstream long before there was a need for Tesla. This goes for the other legacy automakers as well. It took Tesla coming onto the scene — with barely a factory to make its cars — to fore the auto industry to this point. If a newbie automaker with just a couple of factories can bring EVs to production and make more money than both Ford and GM, which are selling more cars in total than Tesla, then already-established automakers could have done it also. They just didn’t want to — until now."

 

[tsuintx]

By "mid-decade". Which decade? 2020s? Ain't gonna happen.

 

[WXman]

I think they will because they have massive capacity and supplier relationships in place that Tesla doesn't really have.

The wildcard is the supply chain. Can they GET the product they need in order to build what they want to build?

 

[DiscoLives4ever]

I think yes....provisionally.

I'm going to say only if you count the China JVs (or at least count them proportional to GMs ownership) and look at it as their production rate by the end of 2025. Of course this also assumes GM doesn't hit any delays on the already-announced Ultium plants

 

[Ch-EV-y]

I think it's possible for GM to get this done, barring supply issues. I think GM is more focused to push their EVs going forward than Tesla. Musk seems to have his head in the clouds with Twitter, Robots, Rockets and other nonsense. Tesla's stock has dropped 30% in the past month!

 

[camaroz1985]

I don't think it will happen by then. That is realistically only 2 model years from now, and they aren't launching any of the real volume leaders until late 23 or early 24. Tesla isn't going to have a sales slump, they are going to continue to grow as well. Hopefully GM isn't making beating Tesla a priority, and is instead focusing on making quality products. That is the only way to grow market share.

 

[bbrriiaann1973]

It's already 2022 and I doubt GM will do it by 2025, maybe closer to 2030.

The end of that article summed up the rest of my thoughts:

"But I feel that if GM truly wanted to beat Tesla, it would have already — or even before Tesla was founded. It would have found a way to make EVs mainstream long before there was a need for Tesla. This goes for the other legacy automakers as well. It took Tesla coming onto the scene — with barely a factory to make its cars — to fore the auto industry to this point. If a newbie automaker with just a couple of factories can bring EVs to production and make more money than both Ford and GM, which are selling more cars in total than Tesla, then already-established automakers could have done it also. They just didn’t want to — until now."

You do realize Tesla was not first? GM was first to bring a mass produced EV car to market. Sorry to disappoint you.

 

[EVTrucking]

No way!!!

GM will NEVER outsell Tesla.

 

[Trekkie]

as much as I'd like them too, they don't have the manufacturing capacity to do it yet. If the Silverado, Blazer, and Tahoe lines all were out, and the upscale GMC/Cadillac Equivalents were, maybe, but unless something drastically changes Tesla has a huge production advantage right now. Way it reads to me is GM might be lucky to have one or two model lines out and they're all priced at Model X/S prices, not Model 3/Y prices. Plus in my purchasing experience with the Bolt unless you argue that you want one, the dealers I had access too didn't really seem all that excited about letting you have one (2017) and now they don't have any on the lot. I wanted an EUV earlier this year and couldn't get one, and they weren't even interested in ordering one for me.