Comments on: GM to Green Car Startups: We Plan to Win http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/02/gm-to-green-car-startups-we-plan-to-win/ Helping the Earth with Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:16:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Best of Rick Wagoner: Farewell to the Volt/Hummer Chief http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/02/gm-to-green-car-startups-we-plan-to-win/#comment-28104 Best of Rick Wagoner: Farewell to the Volt/Hummer Chief Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:34:05 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2079#comment-28104 <p>[...] On Green Car Startups: As if General Motors didn’t have enough to worry about with its $3.3 billion first-quarter loss and a two-month strike at a parts maker that had cost it $800 million by last May, when Wagoner spoke at a meeting of the Commonwealth Club in downtown San Francisco. The automaker also had a host of electric-vehicle startups revving to get electric vehicles on the market before the Chevy Volt. Wagoner claimed he wasn’t worried. This is a high-volume, tough game to compete in and GM has a natural advantage by virtue of its experience and its “depth of technology,” he said at the Commonwealth Club meeting, adding: We plan to win. We welcome the competition, but I expect in ten years were going to be leading the parade. [...]</p> [...] On Green Car Startups: As if General Motors didn’t have enough to worry about with its $3.3 billion first-quarter loss and a two-month strike at a parts maker that had cost it $800 million by last May, when Wagoner spoke at a meeting of the Commonwealth Club in downtown San Francisco. The automaker also had a host of electric-vehicle startups revving to get electric vehicles on the market before the Chevy Volt. Wagoner claimed he wasn’t worried. This is a high-volume, tough game to compete in and GM has a natural advantage by virtue of its experience and its “depth of technology,” he said at the Commonwealth Club meeting, adding: We plan to win. We welcome the competition, but I expect in ten years were going to be leading the parade. [...]

]]> By: Next Chapter in the Silicon Valey vs. Detroit Saga: Chapter 11? « Earth2Tech http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/02/gm-to-green-car-startups-we-plan-to-win/#comment-27148 Next Chapter in the Silicon Valey vs. Detroit Saga: Chapter 11? « Earth2Tech Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:02:09 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2079#comment-27148 <p>[...] in large-scale manufacture of electric vehicles, CEO Rick Wagoner said (in brighter economic times last spring) that the company is “wide open” to working with startups. [...]</p> [...] in large-scale manufacture of electric vehicles, CEO Rick Wagoner said (in brighter economic times last spring) that the company is “wide open” to working with startups. [...]

]]> By: joe http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/02/gm-to-green-car-startups-we-plan-to-win/#comment-11257 joe Sat, 10 May 2008 03:11:53 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2079#comment-11257 <p>"R", I´m not sure, it depends on the names we´ll be seeing as real competitors. No companies were named.</p> “R”, I´m not sure, it depends on the names we´ll be seeing as real competitors. No companies were named.

]]> By: DS http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/02/gm-to-green-car-startups-we-plan-to-win/#comment-11111 DS Mon, 05 May 2008 20:42:13 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2079#comment-11111 <p>Wagoner is Bean Counter. He's had his head consistently up is ass, it no different this time.</p> Wagoner is Bean Counter. He’s had his head consistently up is ass, it no different this time.

]]> By: China @ Crossroads http://earth2tech.com/2008/05/02/gm-to-green-car-startups-we-plan-to-win/#comment-11017 China @ Crossroads Fri, 02 May 2008 09:26:47 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=2079#comment-11017 <p>Sounds like all I need to do is get a viable product produced 2x and then sell the technology to GM. technologies into production quality.</p> <p>What I find most interesting about his position is that none of his electric car competitors are putting up the miile long assembly plants with their VC money.. they are investing in their technologies.</p> <p>So, if I were the CEO of GM, I would stop making idle threats and start realizing that he will be buying technologies from these firms... not competing with them.</p> <p>R www.china-crossroads.com</p> Sounds like all I need to do is get a viable product produced 2x and then sell the technology to GM.
technologies into production quality.

What I find most interesting about his position is that none of his electric car competitors are putting up the miile long assembly plants with their VC money.. they are investing in their technologies.

So, if I were the CEO of GM, I would stop making idle threats and start realizing that he will be buying technologies from these firms… not competing with them.

R
http://www.china-crossroads.com

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