General Motors lays off about 1,000 workers, cutting costs to compete in a crowded automobile market

Ironic that GM was the world's first to mass market EVs, way back in the 90s, after which it launched a aggressive campaign to wipe that model from the face of the earth by literally destroying every single vehicle.

More recently GM came out with the Volt, which had the potential of killing much of the competition that is now killing GM. Did I say it was ironic?

What happened to let's Make America Great Again, it's only becoming let's Layoff Great Again?

naw, gm was not. plenty of startups made electric cars in the 1990's.

most cars going back to the later 1800's through 1910 or so were electric.

and it's gm bolt, not volt. sigh.

The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid and extended-range electric vehicle car that was manufactured by General Motors, and also marketed in rebadged variants as the Holden Volt in Australia and New Zealand and the Buick Velite 5 in China, and with a different fascia as the Vauxhall Ampera in the United Kingdom and as the Opel Ampera in the remainder of Europe. Volt production ended in February 2019

Sigh?

“We need to optimize for speed and excellence,” the statement said. "This includes operating with efficiency, ensuring we have the right team structure and focusing on our top priorities."

I really hate how every company tries to spin their layoffs. If optimizing for speed and excellence is the best course, why wasn’t it always SOP? It’s a rhetorical question, of course, but had they previously thought that sluggishness and mediocrity was the way to go?

As for Bolt vs. Volt, the answer is…both.

https://www.autonews.com/cars-concepts/2026-chevy-bolt-ev-be-part-vehicle-family-gm-says/

Check out the Wiki entry for Chevrolet Volt and at the top of the page you’ll find a note that says “ Not to be confused with Chevrolet Bolt or Toyota Voltz.”

Just learned that GM announced in June it reversed course on the Bolt, deciding to keep it after Barra got lots of hate mail. Well, good for GM for actually listening to its (angry) customers. Let's hope it's not another "SUV crossover" with a higher price tag and larger size.

Remember the article a couple of weeks back about how middle-class Americas are increasingly unable to afford buying and maintaining a car? Well, no wonder, subcompacts, which are prevalent in Europe, Asia and Latin America, have mostly disappeared from the North American market. If the Chinese were allowed in, they would change that and quickly dominate the market.

Could have seen this coming in around the early 2000s when GM figured they could make more money in the short term by engaging in planned obsolescence, a practice now used by the vast majority of once-reputable vehicle manufacturers.

Whether this was a scam or cooked up the auto industry or by globalist elites and their government lackeys to keep us dependent on their system is anyone's guess, but it's hard not to lean toward the latter.

I mean think about it - they don’t want people driving durable, reliable vehicles - they want us locked into a cycle of debt, forced to buy overpriced, flimsy vehicles every few years. And don’t get me started on the push for electric cars loaded with tech designed to fail.

It’s all about control - controlling our wallets, our transportation, and eventually, our freedom to move as we choose.

People deserve vehicles that last, not disposable junk engineered for profit and surveillance.