Re: General Motors quietly closed the door this week on a goal to make only electric vehicles by 2035.

On 7/16/2025 7:01 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:01:11 -0000 (UTC), Beej Jorgensen
<beej@beej.us> wrote:
 

In article <a7pe7kd53dvda90vj15e5k90ducth4ct6v@4ax.com>,
Catrike Ryder  <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

"In May, the Detroit automaker said it would ditch plans to make
electric motors at its Towanda Production plant in Buffalo, New York,
and instead spend $888 million to make V-8 engines."

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China's the one that's completely dominating in the electric vehicle
market. They shipped some 10x more EVs than the US purchased in total
last year (and we didn't buy any of their EVs).  We're never catching up
to them, if it's any consolation.

 
You can have my entire share of Chinese made vehicles. As for EVs,
they are still going to be sold here in the USA, but not as much as
has been projected. I'm Ok with that.
 

Too bad the electric bicycle manufacturers don't do the same.

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Are there even any US ebike manufacturers with over 1% market share? The
global demand for ebikes is off the charts, so I think we're going to
see nothing but ramping up.

 
Sadly, that's probably true.
 
--
C'est bon
Soloman

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Are there any?  Seriously I do not know of one but hey I'm
not an expert.
>
Santana has an electric upgrade with Canadian motor,
controller, battery for their US built tandems. Those are
first rate.  Bianchi is using Spanish and German electric
systems on Italian built bicycles. But USA electric bicycles??