A few days ago, Uncle Che learned that the 2021 sales champion of the US auto market changed hands, and Toyota beat GM to become the annual sales champion of the US domestic auto market. Toyota sold 2.332 million units in the U.S. market in 2021, up 10% year-on-year and surpassing GM's total annual sales of 2.218 million units.
It's worth noting that GM is really miserable in the pure electric space, delivering only 26 electric vehicles in the fourth quarter, including 25 Chevrolet Bolt EVs and 1 Hummer EV. In this regard, Tesla CEO Musk issued a mocking article: "There is still room for improvement." ”
In fact, GM is indeed a step slower in the transformation of new energy, perhaps because it is still obsessed with the fuel era, so that GM has only begun to officially exert force in the past two years, and has successively launched two major blockbuster products of Hummer EV and Cadillac LYRIQ, but it is still too late, Tesla and other new energy vehicle companies have accounted for half of the country, and it is not so easy for traditional car companies to get a piece of the pie.
While a step slower, GM is not going to give up on itself, and the company is said to plan to raise spending in electrification and smart driving to $35 billion by 2025. At the same time, GM expects that around 2025, the sales of electric vehicles based on GM's new platform will exceed 1 million, and the first-generation electric vehicle project will be profitable.
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