No new Chevy Bolts will leave the factory until GM and LG can eliminate battery issues, as the shortage of drivers for Uber and Lyft will not go away. and dealers in Louisiana take into account the damage caused by Hurricane Ida. All this and more The morning shift for Tuesday, August 31, 2021.
1st gear: the bolt has stopped
This is almost the most efficient way to describe what happens to the Chevy Bolt, as confirmed by GM separately The free Detroit press i The Verge on Monday, no new screws will be made until LG is confident and can put batteries smoothly in the car. GM has priority over replacing about 140,000 bolts on the road – it makes sense – and until it is achieved, the bolt will just disappear for a minute.
As for how long it will take, GM doesn’t know. Walthough GM CEO Mary Barra reaffirmed the company’s commitment to LG, a critical partner in its new Ultium EV architecture development, all other comments GM made to the press indicate that LG went under the bus. Here GM says “don’t trust” LG can make good parts, via free press:
“If we take the battery stocks that are in the field right now or in a warehouse, we don’t trust them to be defect-free.” [GM spokesman Dan] Flores said. “Because we are not confident that LG will have the ability to manufacture defect-free products, we have suspended repairs and are not building new screws. We will not start repairing repairs or start building new screws until we are confident that LG will build flawless products. “
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This is very reprehensible! It is the textual equivalent of the emoji of clenched teeth. He would not want to be present at any meeting between GM and LG staff for fear of dying. GM He went on to say that both companies understand what the problem is, they just don’t know why it develops in the manufacturing process. Which is almost more frustrating, in a way.
LG is collaborating and providing GM with the data it requests, Flores said, noting that LG is as eager as GM to fix the problem.
“It’s in everyone’s best interest if we speed up repairs as best we can,” Flores said. “Both LG and GM understand the importance of what we are doing here and are committed to doing the right thing for our customers.”
GM and LG know the flaws are a torn anode tab and a folded tab on the modules. The presence of these two defects in the same battery cell increases the risk of fire, Flores said. But GM and LG do not know what is causing these defects in the manufacturing process. Nor do they know if the defects are in every Bolt they remember, or just a few.
Clearly, this will take a while. Ultimately, I will accredit GM to be at the forefront of this, rather than dodging the seriousness of the problem. It looks like he will continue to dodge the blame, though.
2nd gear: the shortage of drivers to share vehicles is not achieved
Like the shortage of semiconductors or the shortage of truck drivers, the shortage of Uber and Lyft drivers has been a permanent problem throughout the pandemic. Alike the shortage of semiconductors, the executives of the relevant companies do not feel the pinch, but their employees and customers. The average travel cost for one of these apps has increased 92% between January 2018 and January last year, according to data CNBC cites from Rakuten. CNBC has published today an informative information on the situation:
“Companies don’t really consider us human beings and only consider us profits,” says Ben Valdez, driver and volunteer coordinator for the Rideshare Drivers United group. “Once it all started to slow me down, I was winning … I think it was about $ 85 for 12 hours.”
The Uber website says drivers earn between $ 22 an hour in cities like Orlando and $ 37 an hour in cities like New York. Lyft has a long list of incentives and bonuses for drivers. But for those who still rely on life-sharing platforms to make a living, companies don’t offer enough.
How NPR noted earlier this month, it is a mistake to think that when fares go through the roof, the driver’s earnings increase just as well.
Drivers earn more, though [Rideshare Guy founder Harry] Campbell said Uber is taking advantage of the steepest rates.
For example, for a fee of $ 100 instead of the normal $ 50 due to maximum customer demand, the driver does not double, although the driver is charged twice the usual fare.
Campbell said that in this situation, Uber drivers no longer pay a percentage of the cost of the trip. Instead, Uber pays drivers a fixed amount for the time and distance of the unit, plus a bonus if demand is high. In other words, when drivers are most needed, their salary is detached from what customers pay.
“Uber is making a big percentage on this trip,” Campbell said. “The concern is that Uber will continue to increase its timing, as there is no transparency.”
Thus, drivers have a chance to get more trips because there are fewer drivers around, however, there will probably be fewer customers despite increased demand because there are no motorists he wants to pay a double fee if they can avoid it. EIf drivers receive this fare, their rating is only slightly better than it would be in pre-pandemic conditions, everything while Uber and Lyft are making cash. Many drivers have switched to delivery services, such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, etc., which have become increasingly popular throughout this ordeal.
3rd Gear: Ida’s Ravaged Everything, including distributors
More than a million homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi were left without electricity after Ida swept the region on Sunday. AP reported. Some can go weeks without electricity, and a combination of rising temperature and humidity could make you feel like they’re 105 degrees around mid-week. Our heart is affected by everyone.
Certainly, dealers have been affected Automotive news reports. The lost power seems to be the concern more than the floods or severe damage affecting the inventory, at least among the distributors in this story:
Ray Brandt Auto Group has nine stores in the state. Several are grouped around New Orleans. The group said in a post on Facebook that all its dealerships would close on Monday. Southland Dodge, a Dodge-Chrysler-Jeep-Ram-Fiat dealership in Houma, La., Closed Saturday in anticipation of the storm. The five Premier Automotive Group stores in Louisiana suffered no major damage but lost energy, dealer director Troy Duhon said Automotive news. The group’s corporate office was vandalized and a vehicle was stolen from its Honda store in New Orleans, he said. “The good news is that there is nothing important [storm] damage, “Duhon said.” That’s nothing compared to Katrina. In Katrina, we lost 1,200 cars. “
He the dikes seemed to do what they were designed to do, unlike Katrina. This is a relief, but it is also a moving target like storms like Ida it becomes stronger, if not more common.
4th gear: several Chrysler, Dodge Jeep and Ram models will not be built this week
The Ram 1500, the Jeep Cherokee, the Chrysler Pacifica, the Voyager and the 300 and the Dodge Charger and the Challenger are the latest plates with production halted in the coming weeks as a result of the shortage of semiconductors. Automotive news reports:
The current lack of chips has forced Stellantis to stop production of Ram 1500 this week at the Sterling Heights assembly plant in Michigan.
The Sterling Heights facility, which employs 7,068 and operates in three shifts, will be inactive for a week. The plant also had downtime in July.
Sterling Heights is just one of the many production sites in Stellantis.
The Belvidere assembly plant in Illinois, which builds the Jeep Cherokee, and the Windsor assembly plant in Ontario, which handles the Pacifica and Voyager minivans, have fallen in the weeks of August 30th and September 6th.
The Brampton assembly plant in Ontario, which brings together the Dodge Challenger, Charger and Chrysler 300, has collapsed this week.
I ran out of comments to stop producing, sos advances.
5th gear: An F1 race has been removed from the calendar, and teams probably agree with that
The Japan Grand Prix has recently been canceled and it looks like there will be no replacement. This leaves the 2021 schedule in 22 races, one less than the 23 planned.
While everyone likes to compete in Suzuka, the teams are probably happy with that, because they will still be able to spend the same amount of money below the cost limit, even though the championship has effectively been reduced. From Motorsport.com:
For this season, the F1 budget gap is based around a $ 145 million limit, although there are certain exclusions such as marketing, driver salaries, engine development and travel.
This figure of $ 145 million is set if there are 21 races per season, with Article 2.3 of the F1 Technical Regulations stipulating that for each additional event an additional $ 1.2 million will be allowed to the teams.
This means that for the 23-race schedule originally scheduled for this year, the limit will be $ 147.4 million.
However, thanks to a base clause, teams will be able to stay in this higher figure, even if the schedule is reduced and their expenses are reduced.
It turns out that if a race is canceled within three months of the scheduled date, the agreed budgets remain in effect. As history points out, this is good news for top teams like Mercedes and Red Bull work at the limit i Continue sending invoices for shock damage. $ 1.2 million isn’t very important, so I hope there will be more fights between the garages, especially when we get to the final rounds of the campaign. JR Hildebrand had a very good idea on this, by the way.
Reverse: That Crash
Neutral: Major League Baseball
On Sunday I went to a minor league baseball game, specifically a Lehigh Valley IronPigs game against Scranton-Wilkes Barre’s RailRiders rival. Minor league ball games are fantastic because they offer all the pure joys of going to a major league match without the indignity of losing dumb money to get a seat or a decent meal or beer. They’re also funny because I literally couldn’t have done shit for me to win or pass. In fact, my biggest disappointment this afternoon was not that the game was a blast, but that fans have apparently not adopted “Piggies” as the affectionate nickname of their city team. You all had a job.