The Wall Street Journal has found out that the American automaker General Motors cannot reach serious production volumes of the new GMC Hummer EV electric crossover. According to media sources, only 12 electric Hummers leave the assembly lines daily.
This volume is typical for the stage of debugging the assembly process, but the company should have reached more serious volumes long ago, given that more than 77,500 pre-orders have already been collected. It is easy to calculate that at this rate it will take the company 17.5 years to close all applications). However, the company promises to radically increase the pace of assembly by the end of this year, so Hammer fans will not have to wait almost 20 years.
For comparison, the American company Ford assembles about 150 electric F-150 pickups per day, and the Rivian startup builds about 30-40 electric twins R1T and R1S (although at the initial stage it assembled only 1.5 copies per day ).
Well, you can’t help but compare the performance of General Motors with its main competitor, Tesla. Yes, sales of the Cybertruck electric pickup truck have not yet started (they promise to start in 2023), but the company has already collected more than 1 million pre-orders and, after the start of serial assembly, it will most likely produce not just a few, but thousands of electric vehicles per day (for the last reporting quarter, Tesla produced more than 300 thousand electric vehicles ).
Source: The Verge
