It's simple: China has been taking BEVs seriously for 20+ years and US companies (and govt) simply haven't, so China has the better product. Once BYD etc sets up factories in Mexico, the BEV market is theirs and nobody will want to pay twice the price for GM's inferior crap. It makes much more sense for them to squeeze what they can from a declining ICE market than to spend decades of losses trying to catch up to The King.

Cars in general are getting wildly expensive, so is insurance. It’s going to push people to own fewer cars and into accepting self-driving services like Waymo. You will own nothing and be happy.

short term investor concerns

This is the only thing the system responds to.

If nobody's buying it then it doesn't make sense to produce it. The original Bolt was a pretty good car, but nobody bought it. So they quit making it.

people just dont want to deal with dealers

But all the Lemmings complaining about affordable EVs are also full of shit. It's a small, affordable EV, and no one is buying because it doesn't have Car play , but everyone also doesn't want a connected car and wants to drag an old Subaru out of a wrecking yard. $5 gas and people are still buying ICE, then they can post about unaffordability on Lemmy.

This is why car companies avoid social media because what people say they want and what they actually buy is very different.

My past Bolt had carplay and android auto, did they change it? If so, dumb.

Which is funny because a lot of those same complaints aren't directed at Tesla or rivian, etc

My partner decided to take out a loan on his 2023 Chevy Bolt rather than pay in full, with the idea if the new model came out with features he wanted (mainly continued support for Comma self driving) he would do a trade-in. Then we saw the news that the new Chevy Bolt is basically a downgrade in terms of things like not having Android Auto anymore, so he just paid off the loan in full and has no interest in "upgrading." Chevy shot themselves in the foot; US EV manufacturers need to get their shit together.

GM doesn't want to make cars.

Their current generation electric platform is optimized for small SUVs (Equinox, Blazer, Lyriq, Optiq, even the Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX), and their bigger electric platform for big trucks and SUVs (Silverado, Hummer) isn't selling all that well, but is strategically important to them.

It's easy for them to leave cars behind, because they haven't made money selling cars in like 20 years.

At least they're not forcing everyone to return these so they can be destroyed.

Apparently, it's not.