Posted on May 5, 2021
GM Defense: New President, New Factory, New Electric Truck
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Tuesday was a big day for GM Defense, the tiny defense subsidiary of auto giant General Motors. The company:
announced a new president, former Army helicopter test pilot Steve DuMont, who spent 13 years at high-tech powerhouse Raytheon;
officially opened its new factory in Concord, N.C., where it’ll build hundreds of air-droppable Infantry Squad Vehicles for the US Army;
and unveiled an electric variant of the ISV, using the battery from the Chevy Bolt – leveraging its parent company’s $27 billion, five-year investment plan in electric vehicles.
“That vehicle is out driving around right now,” DuMont told me in an interview. “[We built it] in a pretty short period of time, on our own investment…We’ll bring it to Fort Benning next week and let some of the warfighters evaluate it.”
announced a new president, former Army helicopter test pilot Steve DuMont, who spent 13 years at high-tech powerhouse Raytheon;
officially opened its new factory in Concord, N.C., where it’ll build hundreds of air-droppable Infantry Squad Vehicles for the US Army;
and unveiled an electric variant of the ISV, using the battery from the Chevy Bolt – leveraging its parent company’s $27 billion, five-year investment plan in electric vehicles.
“That vehicle is out driving around right now,” DuMont told me in an interview. “[We built it] in a pretty short period of time, on our own investment…We’ll bring it to Fort Benning next week and let some of the warfighters evaluate it.”
GM Defense: New President, New Factory, New Electric Truck
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Are they crazy???? Batteries take TIME to charge. Are expensive to make and replace. Main source of the battery itself is probably China, our next, most probable, enemy. Why would this vehicle even be considered???
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GM is building multiple ultimate battery facilities in the US at this moment. One in nearly finished in Ohio. The ISV is diesel powered and they are looking at an electric option for certain supplemental uses.
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SFC James Welch The Army has been researching quiet scout vehicles for years now, but I guess that’s just leftist propaganda…
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I’m sure they have researched that and many other things. That’s what they do!SFC (Join to see)
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