GM’s $1.7 Billion MISTAKE: Why New V8 Engines Guarantee EV FAILURE
after I filmed this video, right, the title was $900 million General Motors going to invest into these ridiculous new V8 engines. It’s actually turned out that’s changed. It’s now $1.7 billion. This very clearly contradicts General Motors and their spin, their corporate spin. We’re all in on EVs, but actually we’re spending a huge amount of cash on a product that I don’t think anyone is actually asking for. General Motors have just said that they are scaling back their EV production and expenditures and investment, etc., etc., because they’re working on two V8 internal combustion engines. Two V8s because you know what? People who drive V8s, people who want cars with a V8, they are so discerning. They can tell the difference if a V8 engine is 1% more efficient. 1% they can tell. And basically, General Motors customers are saying to them, “We want you to go and invest $700 million to improve the efficiency on V8 engines by 1%.” And that is a good business case. General Motors have said, “Yes, great idea. You guys, you rednecks, whatever you are, um, all you guys who need these V8s, we’re going to do this. It’s genius. YouTube’s new algorithm means that you’re often not getting all of our videos in your feed. There’s 7,500. I’m pretty sure you’re probably not seeing a lot of them. In the description, there is a link to our newsletter. Click on that and you can get an update every day of all the latest news in the electric car industry. Hello, my friends. Welcome to the channel. I’m Sam Evans. watching the electric Viking. And I I know this is ridiculous. I realize that um what I’m saying here just sounds stupid, but it’s kind of what General Motors are actually doing. I mean, it’s stupid, but it’s what they’re doing. So, if anyone can make sense of this, please let me know how this makes sense. For a while, it looked like V8s in America were pretty much finished, and General Motors have said, “No, no, no, no. This works. We make money selling these. And they’re whipping up a family of new V8 engines that will come out in 2027 and they say live well into the next decade. Yeah. Um, interesting. GM is spending 900 million US for a family of new V8 engines. Anyway, they haven’t revealed much more than that, but um there’s a report claiming that these next generation V8s will come in two different sizes. As if you could give a But anyway, here’s what they are. A basic 5.7 L V8 for use in the Silverado 1500. Um which is going to be, I believe, 5% more efficient than the engine it replaces. Will it really be 5% more efficient? I don’t know. I don’t care. And I don’t think buyers care either. Really, let’s be honest. Would someone buy a Silverado right in 2027 because it’s 5% more fuel efficient? Would they? Would they go, “Wow, now time to buy now. It’s 5% more fuel efficient.” Or at least General Motors claim it is anyway. I don’t think they would. Anyway, the current Silverado’s V8 options are a 5.3 L V8 and a 6.2. In other words, General Motors are saying, you know what, dig, baby, dig. I mean, drill, baby drill, whatever you want to call it, right? They’re saying, let’s go big. They’re making their engines even bigger than they were in the past, or even bigger than what they are right now. Anyway, however, the 5.7 L bigger brother, right, there’ll be a 6.6 L V8 engine. So 6.6 L V8. Apparently there’s also going to be a 6.2 L V8 which will have double overhead cam flat plane crank V8. Um available in standard NA naturally aspirated turbocharged and hybrid forms. So there’s some pretty complex engines going on here. I mean obviously a turbocharged and hybridized 6.2 L V8 from General Motors. That’s clearly what customers are demanding. They are saying that we must have. We don’t want some of these amazing UVs from China that have, you know, 700, 800, 900 km of range and 1,200 kW charging, do 0 to 100 in 2 seconds. We don’t want that. We want a hybridized 6.2 L V8 turbo. Stick some turbos on there as well. Please do that. So yeah, clearly this is where all the demand is at for General Motors, they say. Now, I don’t know about you guys, but I think this is a a waste of a billion dollars. And I don’t think legacy automakers have a billion dollars to waste. General Motors, I think, is very soon going to find itself in a position where it’s struggling for cash. Maybe in a way that Nissen is today. Maybe they’ll end up doing similar things. And we’ll look back and we’ll say, remember when General Motors in 2026 spent a billion dollars on V8 engines that absolutely no one was asking for? Do you remember back then? Thanks for watching. General Motors has had a well what we thought was a really good quarter in the third quarter of this year. We thought you know General Motors is doing really well but they um they have been hit pretty hard. In fact their net income tumbled by 57% in the quarter to 1.3 billion because of costs to do with its electric vehicle manufacturing plans that kind of haven’t gone the way General Motors had hoped. Hello my friends, welcome to the channel. I’m Sam Evans. You’re watching the electric Viking. Guys, I use Powers Shop my electricity to charge my EV for free between 12 and 2:00 during the day. I’ll put a link in the description. If you sign up with them, you get $170 discount to sign up. Also, my solar and batteries. I’ve got a 50 kWh battery here, and I’ve got a big solar array, so I pay 0 for electricity. That’s including charging my electric car. Reync Solar is the company that I used. I’ll put a link to them in the description below. General Motors income, it’s fallen by 57%. And this is really reflective of the entire automotive industry, isn’t it? This race to the bottom. Uh it’s happening in China and now it’s happening in Europe. It’s happening now in the US. Auto industry margins are shrinking to their lowest levels that we’ve seen, I think, ever. Now, surprisingly, after Mary Barrett told shareholders um of what 57% decline in profit, GM shares rose by nearly 10%. They went up. Interesting. Adjusted earnings before interest in taxes declined by 18% to 3.4 billion in the third quarter. Revenue was flat at 48.6 billion in spite of the fact that they sold a lot of cars. North American pre-tax earnings fell 37% to 2.5 billion. Revenue slipped 1.5% to 40.6 billion. General Motor said it would take a $1.6 billion charge against its third quarter earnings to reassess its EV capacity. Not exactly how this I’m not exactly sure how this works to be honest. It’s sort of like $1.6 $6 billion charge to reassess EV capacity.
GM’s $1.7 Billion MISTAKE: Why New V8 Engines Guarantee EV FAILURE
General Motors’ $1.7 billion investment in new V8 engines signals a controversial pivot back to combustion just as the global auto industry accelerates toward electrification. Critics warn this bet risks undermining GM’s EV momentum, potentially cementing it as a laggard in the electric revolution.
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