GM vision of the world. Another visionary without a clear plan.

[reytsman]

I am not sure if they are thinking. They have just added a Buick and a Saturn minivan to the existing 4 or 5 minivans, all on the same body all with the same features with the same internals just different finishes inside.
The engineering is almost there, some of the newer cars that they put out are amazing, new buicks, cadilacs, corvet. Market stratigy is non-existant.
As far as hydrogen, they are dead serious, I've talked to couple people none directly involved with the project, but working for GM. All of them make it sound like GM is on track to almost put something out by 2010. I suspect it would be another EV1, beautiful, hi-tech and utterly useless and unmarketable. I think, they are trying to compensate for the fact that they've missed the hybrid train that everyone has jumped on.
From what I've seen from GM they are fairly serious and some what organized (for a company that big).
So a one line answer is that "GM is creating another EV1".

Misha

Alexander Gopp wrote:

> Can anyone explain what GM is thinking about?
> All of you are somehow involved in automotive business.
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