BMW did a decent job on their dual purpose platform although they did a bunch of things differently like brushed motors.
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BMW did a decent job on their dual purpose platform although they did a bunch of things differently like brushed motors.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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It is very interesting watching Dodge do all these new cars, sports models (of course I love them all) etc... but many of them are NOT ever going to be big sellers to the masses. So it kind of amazes me and makes me wonder how on earth they even pull this stuff off in todays highly competitive auto world. How they get some of these things past the CEOs and board of directors is a puzzle to me.
One of the greatest , long time issues in the auto manufacturing world , like other industries is far too much turn over in the management of these corporations. Far too many of them get hired and brought in simply because they made money for some other firms , maybe even totally different types of industries. They come in knowing near nothing about the new company they are suddenly in charge of.
Too many times , in short periods the same newer CEOs bail out with the golden parachute chock full of cash and bonus stocks etc.... after all sorts of moves that affects thousands of workers they could care less about. The poor next CEO and managers are left to clean up the wild changes the last regime made with little if any care for the future of the product or the workers.
Far far too many quick changes and turn over can kill once great companies. I saw way too much of this at the last company I worked for and was loyal to for 30 years before I retired. About ten years ago my pension just started to come to me from a totally different industry who apparently merged , bought out etc.... with the old one. At least it is still coming to me Thank the Lord.
As a small time CEO I'll never get a parachute if I screw up, but I'm with you on seeing people being rewarded for failure all the time.
I have to look our workers and staff fi the eye every time I'm in the office.
Carlos Tavares would be an example of failing up.
It's extremely hard to deal with change, that said stellantis has had over a decade to get a competitive EV to market.
It looks like for the most part dodge has a decent enough powertrain, but the charging experience let them down.
Jim Farley admitted the charging piece was much harder than Ford expected.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
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Yeah. I know what you mean. We had several mid level maintenance and technical managers come thru. All were sent in to "straighten us out?" Even with the hall outside of my office littered with awards we earned for maintenance excellence + efficiency in the planning and scheduling major plant turn arounds. Still they kept coming in. It seemed almost like some lower level required manager training requirement on the steps to raises and promotions? So, knowing little to nothing about how we operated they still all wanted to change any and everything just because. Ugh. They were the new BOSS in town. The same story every time. Once they found out we were doing all they would want us to do already , their only answer was "we simply need to cut wage roll manpower!" They did not do their real job to investigate and look for ways to improve or save money so.... in the end every time it was "lets get rid of some low level hourly people!" The backbone of most places! Then need to dump more work on the working mules who got them those awards. They would still get the auto promotions and bonuses and move on to the next site to disrupt or near destroy. The only blessing was several times, they were moved on up the chain before we even got forced to implement any of their destructive changes.....
Of course there are/were many real good managers too. Problem is they often get run over , chewed up and spit out by their bosses if they do not go along with absurd things. Seems like all of the Domestic auto makers got caught with their pants down completely when it comes to EVs etc... Soon they were all scrambling and dumping all sorts of money into it. Kinda like putting the cart before the horse. Where is the proof? Well it appears that the once great "Big Three" are trailing very badly in the EV world. It is very hard to make great gains when the majority (certainly not enough yet) of your customers do not want the newest thing, the EV.
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