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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Batteries For EVs

Locator: 48634BATTERIES.

October 22, 2024: GM, 3Q24 earnings --

Let's look at GM's EVs:

  • CEO says company on track to meet 2024 EV production and profitability targets
  • still expects to manufacture 200,000 EVs in 2024
  • through the end of September, GM has sold about 70,000 EVs in US
      • EV production and sales "don't match exactly."
    • assumption: GM doesn't sell more EVs than it manufactures
  • GM press release: 3Q24 -- another record quarter of EV sales;
    • 32,095 EV delivered -- that's a record! Wow.
  • total vehicle sales: 659,601 vehicles
  • other sources:
    • battery cost, about $100 / kWh earlier this year
    • GM may be closer to $90 / kWh now (3Q24)
    • goal to mid-$80 by next year ("by next year" = end 2024?)
    • goal to low $70 "in a couple of years"
  • ICE (GoogleAI):
    • average cost of replacing an ICE engine: $2,500 - $5,000
    • average cost of replacing an automatic transmission for an ICE: $2,500 - $5,000
    • suggesting: GM cost for powertrain for an ICE is about $8,000, tops
  • average GM kWH battery:

 

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