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Yeah, do you know that there are many things you said that are wrong?

There are not more Volts on the road than Model 3. 136,358 Volts have been sold through March of 2019. Bloomberg tracks Model 3 at 230,070 with 7 less years on the market.

And, by the way, why are you comparing hybrids to full electrics? Not exactly apples-to-apples there. What's the total cost of ownership on one when you still have to do all the maintenance that full-electrics don't? What about the fuel costs, and the reduced efficiency of hauling around a heavy engine you aren't using if you attempt to go all-electric by plugging it in?

You know that Nissan is not a Chinese company, right?

Electric cars are 100 year old, and no gas car maker successfully made a no compromise electric car, BEV that can compete with ICEV in at least a few significant performance parameters like, speed, range, capacity and price. Every industry analyst was saying it is impossible, till 2017. The industry started saying, "we can build them BEV anytime we want, when we do we will wipe the floor with Tesla's ass" only recently.

BEVs can be made profitably. BEVs achieved price parity[* 1] with F segment cars (roadsters, above 120K $) in 2012, in E segment (80K) in 2015, in F segment (50K +) in 2018. Tesla is claiming price parity in D segment (35 K) in 2019. Giving Elon Time dilation, it will be probably in 2020. It should have price parity with C segment, (25 to 35 K) in 2023 [* 2]. But not sure Tesla is planning to enter this market. Might leave these segments to Korea and China and stay in D and above. Half the profits of the car industry are made in D, E and F segments. So it might not enter A (less than 15K), B (15 to 25 K) or C (25 to 35 K).

Go rent a Tesla for a week, get used to its handling and performance. Then see if you feel the same about the gas car. I find BMW 3 series under powered and laggy once I got used to the Tesla. 40 mph to 60 mph is 1.5 seconds. In merging traffic, this is incredible. When people see what an electric car can do, the gas car sales will tank faster than BEVs could be made. [* 3]

[* 1] I am talking about price parity, not cost, not including tax subsidies or savings in running costs.

[* 2] Citation provided.

[* 3] The Osbourne Effect.

Its due to falling sales.

They are making a whole lot of money:
https://www.nasdaq.com/earning...

while sales are doing OK
http://gmauthority.com/blog/gm...

So it's probably not sales.

other companies have already engineered their cars, built battery plants

A list of car companies with their battery plants would be nice if you're making such claims.

Like this Or this Or this Or this

And keep in mind those articles are a couple of years old. The other car companies just don't blab and have publicists that inflate their CEO's and company's reputation like Musk does.

Tesla fanboys live in a bubble and know nothing of the auto-industry or its trends. They believe all the hype and Musk's bullshit.

Tesla sells actual electric cars that people get in a waiting list years in advance to buy.

That tells you that there's something seriously wrong with the scalability of their production. (If you want to know what the problem is, Tesla relies on selling ZEV credits to other automakers to keep from going bankrupt. But other automakers only need a certain number of ZEV credits each year to comply with CARB regulations. So Tesla has to be careful not to produce too many ZEVs lest they cause the price of ZEV credits to plummet due to oversupply.)

Not sure where your Bolt sales numbers come from, totals are apparently ~4000 - http://gmauthority.com/blog/gm...

118,000 EV miles. 53 miles per charge. That's 2,226 full charge cycles. Sparkie travels an average of 66,000 miles per year (long commute) since 2011 (2012 model... 2011... 5 years).

That's more distance than most will do with their dino cars.

Proper thermal management is done on these batteries because GM did their work: they have the largest battery lab.

The Volt's Gen2 battery is 18.5kw but only about 14.5 is available for driving. The remainder is used for thermal management and avoiding deep charge cycles, which is really what destroyes life expectancy of Li-Ion batteries. And that's why they last long.

Gen 1 used different battery capacities but still had that ~20% thermal overhead. Also, unlike laptop and phones, these batteries are liquid-cooled with their own glycol, 5-channel cooling system (Tesla only has a single-chanel system).

Disclaimer: I both a Gen2 Volt and a CSRT4.

My Volt will rot to the ground before I have to worry about the battery.

you would be surprised at how many vettes have auto vs manuals. Its actually higher this year as opposed to most at 40% - http://gmauthority.com/blog/20...

Auto manufacturers are held to a much higher standard than the computer industry is used to. GM is being sued because their ignition switches could turn off if people hung too much crap on their keychain. (Something unlikely to be caught in testing, because, at the test track, each key hangs on a separate key tag.) "Speeding, cellphone texting, intoxication... irrelevant. We are not looking at the driver, or the circumstances of the driver's negligence. We are looking at the automobile, and only the automobile." - terms of the GM settlement.

The minimum safe level of performance for a self-driving car is that the vehicle must be able to bring itself to a safe stop, preferably at the side of the road, in any emerging bad situation. Even after any single-point failure.

Few computer based consumer products meet that standard, but a some do. The Segway is a good example. There's enough redundancy in a Segway to keep single failures from face-planting the user. Five rate gyros instead of three, two batteries, two processors, and a safety shutdown mode that brings the vehicle to a stop and sounds alarms to tell you to get off before it fails.

This. In no other industry, in the world, are bugs, glitches, and crashes so readily tolerated, even expected. Not only are software failures or bugs always a threat, so are hardware failures. But this is slashdot, so computers are awesome and people suck.
An autonomous driving system like this will work much better once *every* car on the road uses it, but a combination of machine and human drivers is probably going to be newsworthy everynight.

No, it's clear why we should be worried about almost-but-not-really autonomous vehicles, in the real deal this would be fine.

That's right. Automatic lane keeping plus radar-based cruise control is right in the middle of the "deadly valley" - good enough to allow hands-off driving 98% of the time, not good enough to handle trouble. This is why that Cruise startup building a budget self-driving system worries me. Thos guys are from "social" apps. They're thinking they can ship something that sort of works, and that's good enough. It isn't.

Auto manufacturers are held to a much higher standard than the computer industry is used to. GM is being sued because their ignition switches could turn off if people hung too much crap on their keychain. (Something unlikely to be caught in testing, because, at the test track, each key hangs on a separate key tag.) "Speeding, cellphone texting, intoxication... irrelevant. We are not looking at the driver, or the circumstances of the driver's negligence. We are looking at the automobile, and only the automobile." - terms of the GM settlement.

The minimum safe level of performance for a self-driving car is that the vehicle must be able to bring itself to a safe stop, preferably at the side of the road, in any emerging bad situation. Even after any single-point failure.

Few computer based consumer products meet that standard, but a some do. The Segway is a good example. There's enough redundancy in a Segway to keep single failures from face-planting the user. Five rate gyros instead of three, two batteries, two processors, and a safety shutdown mode that brings the vehicle to a stop and sounds alarms to tell you to get off before it fails.

GM is approaching 50% foreign manufacture for the entire company. Their most popular trucks are 60% foreign now.

Lots of cars in the US already have Chinese parts. Japan has been outsourcing major drive train components to China for years. Chinese manufacturing is sufficient for automotive work. Even hotrod builders in the US use Chinese parts for legacy US designs; Scat and Eagle engine components are very popular.

http://gmauthority.com/blog/2012/04/cadillac-to-build-ats-cts-xts-in-china-for-china/