GM Vice Chair Lutz's blog post on GM's future
GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has been on the pro-hydrogen warpath (and in the news) a lot recently. Not content to be quoted in media outlets around the world, Lutz wrote his own post on the GM FastLane blog yesterday. In it, he kept up the pro-hydrogen fuel cell message, and warned that any publicly-available details about when GM will make fuel cell production vehicles and how much the process will cost are nothing but speculation. What I found most interesting in Lutz's post is his enthusiasm for EVs. He wrote: "I truly believe that electric-drive vehicles have a real future in this country and around the world; the only question is the nature of the power source or sources". In fact, Lutz doesn't really take any options off of the table for future GM cars: plug-in hybirds, more gasoline-electric hybrids and, of course, more E85-capable vehicles are all possible. GM's goal of putting one million hydrogen vehicles on the global market - at a profit - remains in place.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
RAFMAN 6:11AM (2/08/2009)
this is for rick wagoner SEE GM ON YOUTUBE ( WHEN CAR DEALERS ATTACK)
YOU COCKSUCKERS
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Kent Schweiss 12:34PM (4/28/2009)
DON'T Dump Pontiac! ! Dump the Overpaid CEO's and Design Teams thhat ignored this ICON Auto line and yet got paid 6 digit salaries and bonus' for NOT doing their jobs the last 8 years!
Pontiac is equally as important of an automobile line as is Chevrolet., if not dramatically more so... Look at the numerous similarities. Trans Am-Camaro, LeMans-Chevelle, Impala-Bonneville, etc..
Pontiac as well as Chevrolet began in the late 50's and early 60's with Direct from the Factory Street Legal Drag Strip Cars.. YES, Pontiac did build and can build EXCITEMENT !
Pontiac was the car that brought the TRI POWER ENGINES , the Powerful 421 Race Super Duty Engines....and then the WIDE TRACK and RADIAL TUNED SUSPENSION... to the American Auto Industry...
Question ? Do you thing Richard Petty would have driven a 4 cylinder Cobalt In the Daytona 500??
Pontiac has had and CAN HAVE awesome cars that compete with Infinity, Acura, BMW, and Audi...
Start earning your pay and refresh the CORRECT CLONE to the GTO, The TRANS AM...and cars like that....because the European Car Companies are taking your market share in these areas and
having GM for LUNCH..... GM has NOTHING to compete in these sport car lines......
DO you see BMW, Audi, Infinity or Acura ...FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY?????
And Notice....they don't build the same truck 3 times and yet disquise it with THREE DIFFERENT NAME BADGES..... who do you think you fooling?????
Come on GM ! ! Do you really continue to humiliate the American Truck Buyers? A Cadillac Escalade and PICKUP??? (hahaha) Are just Chevrolet Trucks with a CROWN and in a WREATH !
BUT they cost 18-22% more than the Chevrolet Truck ! If you want a truck.. BUY A REAL ONE !
GM has pressed the Xerox button and triplicated the truck line in GM, Chevy and Cadillac..for the last 8 years.. and who gets paid to be in a rut??? OH GM Designers and Admin.! !
What are the Chevrolet Aveo and the Cobalt?? ......A Yugo with A Bow Tile Badge??
IMPALA.. Borning, MALIBU.. Yawn! .. But what about the Years of Bonneville 1957 til 2005
and the new G-8 is AWESOME....not at all an AARP edition of the present GM Mess.....
COME ON PONTIAC...Get your heads out of YOUR TRUNKS.!
The performance cars from Europe are SMOKING YOU.. cause you haven;t got anything in to HIGH GEAR that competed with their Performance Line Ups.....
Keep the G8, Bring back the Grand Prix ( by the way it was a 2dr, til someone got lazy in Detroit. Show us a Hot, I said Hot G6 , bring back the Trans Am... WOW..you can copy the 2010 Camero.. that should be easy to for you to do...your already doing it in the truck lines!!
If PONTIAC GOES... the GM will stand for
GENERALLY MONOTONOUS !
which is a receipe still headed for BANKRUPTCY
You should be embrassed by your lack of action and innvoation and for leading the American Car Buyer into your venue that is actually controlled by the OIL COMPANY LOBBYIST ..
YOUR D and D Division was paid to design and develope...they didn't do it
So ......GET A JOB ... or GET THE PONTIAC LINE .. ALIVE and earn your salaries
AMERICA NEED SOME EXCITEMENT..SO BUILD IT ,,,you use to !
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Howard Lee Harkness 9:05PM (9/21/2006)
"GM's goal of putting one million hydrogen vehicles on the global market - at a profit - remains in place."
Don't hold your breath, Lutz. Last time I checked, wishful thinking wasn't sufficient to change the laws of chemistry and physics.
Using hydrogen to power vehicles is insanely stupid.
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