GM Future Plans?

[jamz]

I have been reading a lot about GM lately. Talking about the future plans with Hydrogen cars and such. Business Week has an artciel why GM Plan won't work. What do you think? Just looking for some thoughts from the community.

[Torqy]

The future energy supply must and will be a composition of different energy sources. The outsourcing of the energy production will substitute the classic power plants. New energy-saving developments will have the most contingent of power economisation.
I am very surprised, that this thread is started by an us citizen as the usa are known as the most energy waster ever as well as the kyoto-protocol is not signed by your government. Volkswagen has developed a car for 2 persons that would consume 1l/100km which is the same as about 80milse/gallon. What are the us-firms doing? They are outperforming themselves with power and cylinder capacity - I don't think this is the right way...

Roland

[Josh]

I think if GM can get help from Toyota they will be okay. Because Lexus just rolled out the RX400H which is the hybrid with hydrogen batteries. Also Lexus plans on rolling out the IS250H and the GX480H which are all hybrids. This would kill GM and anyother car maker unless they can get on the same technology. I hope GM can make the leap and compete with the Japenese big 3 because I hear Nissan is coming out with one soon.

[Danmuzicman]

waiting for toyota to buy gm out. gm is in junk bond status, second only to ford, lol they need to make a cheap turbo RWD compact so that all the ricers importers and drifters will buy it. i swear it will make em money. but thier all a bunch of old farts at the wheel they need some young blood in the company

[darkfox]

Originally posted by Torqy
The future energy supply must and will be a composition of different energy sources. The outsourcing of the energy production will substitute the classic power plants. New energy-saving developments will have the most contingent of power economisation.
I am very surprised, that this thread is started by an us citizen as the usa are known as the most energy waster ever as well as the kyoto-protocol is not signed by your government. Volkswagen has developed a car for 2 persons that would consume 1l/100km which is the same as about 80milse/gallon. What are the us-firms doing? They are outperforming themselves with power and cylinder capacity - I don't think this is the right way...

Roland

you know i don't run around stereotyping europeans. many of us are very concerned about energy conservation.

i think gm's fuel cell technology is the way cars SHOULD be. however, i don't know if this is the way it will go in the future... hybrids seem to be the most logical next step, because it still uses gasoline. we will go through a period of several different types of land based propulsion, like the early days of automobiles... when they used many different types of fuel/engines for cars, such as steam, electricity, alchohol, peanut oil (i'm not kidding) and eventually gasoline. We will probably go through a peroid where cars will run off of E85 and quite possibily E100, hybrid cars, electric cars and eventually fuel cells.

GM is on the right track. they're just getting ahead of themselves.

i don't think gm can fix its problems, its dug its hole too deep. they are starting to do things right with the far superior models they are starting to release, but its a day late and a dollar short.

[achievasc92]

I'm not losing any sleep over the gas "crisis" don't listen to the doomsday predictors, Europeans would kill for 2.25 a gallon gas. Americans will continue to have cheap gas and Europeans will continue to get raped at the Petrol pump.

What we really need to worry about is global warming and the hole in the ozone layer. :rolleyes: what ever happened to that hole anyway? Old Ozey the Ozone hole was supposed to take over the world and inflict our children with skin cancer a few years back; now their telling me we have too much greenhouse gases. All hype, hype I tell ya.