GM does not build EV's in volume, that is fact, you tried to change my claim to be about producing any car in volume, nice straw man. GM does not produce electric vehicles today at Tesla's current rate, so claiming GM are better positioned to outproduce Tesla is not backed by facts. GM could produce more, but does not, and that is on purpose, they have chosen to deliberately cap their risk/investment in doing so. They are not better positioned, because they don't want to be, or are clueless, perhaps both if you look at the Cadillac Volt they tried to sell for Tesla money.
LG has produced exactly zero high voltage battery cells which have made it into a 200+ mile electric only vehicle available for sale. Panasonic has made billions of cells for 150,000 of said cars, and accelerating now up to 2000+ cars per week. LG makes cells for low volume compliance cars, Panasonic is spending billions to scale out production to produce hundreds of thousands of long range electric cars.
These are all facts and are true today.
Perhaps one day GM and LG will compete on volume, but that's not what's happening today, and by the time the Bolt has had it's initial 8 month production run before mid-year retooling, Tesla will be releasing their high volume long range car. My guess is that Chevy will sell 4000 thousand Bolt's per month over the next few years, they will need a head start as Tesla will be making 4000 per week within the next two years.
