Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Chevy Bolt EV Hoist Review with Kevin and Jordan" video.

That was a great deal!!! 👍🏼
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Auto magazines always seem to ignore American 🇺🇸 cars with hybrid & ev technology… I remember when there was practically an embargo on the Ford Escape Hybrid & Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid - the auto review industry just said they were not going to review it and did not give a good reason. I was in the market for a car back then, both features were pretty high on my list, for a crossover/suv type vehicle, and few car companies had such a beast
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I thought the same thing, dis-similar metals… but the paint 🎨 technology used today is amazing!!! I wonder if people will hit enough pot holes where they will bend the metal before the paint gives out
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I was thinking 💭 If they could use the same component across multiple generations of vehicle 🚗, that would be a huge cost benefit!
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They spoke about a cover they pulled off, the cover was not really structural. I noticed the way they did the crosshatch in the steel, it looked like it was all for rigidity!
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@jamesengland7461 - lower profit cars have been getting discontinued, basically leaving that market to Kia
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@jamesengland7461 - “Bolt sales are terrible” Too expensive. Not enough batteries 🪫 to produce more. You have to have enough components be able to produce enough cars 🚗 to have good sales. “inexpensive cars must be sold in large numbers or they actually lose money” Inexpensive cars lose money 💰, even when produced in large numbers: Inexpensive cars 🚘 were used to attract young buyers so they would buy expensive cars 🚗 from the same manufacturer, later. A Yugo would not need many batteries 🔋, especially without the electronics. We have golf cars 🚙 & scooters everywhere- no reason for government regulations to require so much cost today. I had a 40mph 4 door sedan 🚘 car in the early 90’s, virtually no electronics, reliable.
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@jamesengland7461 - - “Bolt sales were terrible…” Not many were produced, because there were not enough batteries 🪫 “Before the supply chain broke” This has nothing to do with the manufacturing of EV batteries 🪫- which was practically non-existent in the US and other continents outside of Asia. That is changing, now. “Cars like Coronas and Civics have been profitable for a half century…” They have traditionally cost more than typical American compacts. Their primary markets were foreign, with small car 🚘 needs, which became US domestic. Ironically, the civic will be withdrawn from the Japanese market. But none of those [un]/profitable small cars had to sport a huge & expensive battery 🪫, where the supply was low, and the battery 🪫 cost more than the car to produce. “GM has always done poorly with small cars” GM built lots of sporty Pontiac Sunfires, nice affordable Chevy Cavaliers… enough cars 🚙 were built to meet various standards: an aggregate of the cars sold by a manufacturer had to meet x MPG, so the incentive was to sell profitable vehicles while the smaller vehicles were an afterthought & often produced in quantities to meet their US fleet MPG requirements and keep their costs down by sharing parts with international market cars (which demand smaller vehicles, while US demands larger vehicles.). “always been profitable” Rick Wagoner, former CEO of GM, former president of GM’s North America Operations said it was tough to make a “net, net, net profit on small cars anyway.” For every Ford Escort sold, when it was the #1 selling car in America, Ford lost money 💴 on every car. Moving manufacturing to Mexico helped bring down costs. The luxury brands of the American Cars 🚗 always subsidized the starting cars for the poor… until recently. The #WarOnThePoor has taken it’s effect with car companies being less concerned, especially since used cars were crushed a couple administrations ago.
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