You have no agenda?...Really?
You have no agenda?...Really?...Sorry, but your actions and writing says exactly the opposite. You are easily one of the most vocal evangelists for BEVs that I have seen on the internet. That is meant as a compliment because I do admire your tenacity, but you are rarely impartial. Regarding Cadillac's technological push for cruise automation, I an not surprised. But on the other side, their Super Cruise feature is limited, so that they don't face the criticism of Tesla, who fully embraced autonomous driving options for all of their cars. The fact that Cadillac was slow to come out with a BEV up until now has more to do with short term profit and market economics. Should they have been engineering a BEV 3 years ago so it could have been released today? Sure. Should they have shown a working concept BEV when they made their announcement? Sure. But it is hardly a crime, especially considering that most of their competition are either producing zero BEVs or maybe one low volume model. Palmer is slamming many of Aston Martin's competitors, but it is not like they are any threat to Tesla either. They were planning on building a BEV Rapide, but that died when Chinese partners backed out. Now that AM got fresh funding from selling stocks perhaps they can do more than build a tiny handful of $250,000+ exotic cars. AM is clearly NOT in competition with Cadillac or even Tesla, so the criticism is weak. There are many large automakers who have been on the fence regarding BEVs for many years now. The larger car market is still 97% fossil fuel based, so even with Tesla's success, and other automakers like VW making bold commitments, but many automakers are just now jumping on the bandwagon, with some (like Chrysler) not really moving yet. So the move towards more BEVs will be slow overall, and it is to be expected that the engineering departments are having to quickly catch up to the big promises that the marketing departments are saying about their new direction and commitment towards BEVs. Plus I always smile when you mention that I am clinging to "old" technologies, when you try to put down PHEVs. You seem to forget that PHEVs are just plug in versions of hybrid cars, and even though a few automakers are jumping straight to BEVs, I will bet you that we see more sales in hybrids and PHEVs than BEVs over the next 5 years. You conveniently forget about the fact that almost all cars sold today have no electric traction motor, and that the logical evolutionary step will be to convert current models to hybrids first.