Chevrolet’s desire to build the electric corfit. Three years have passed since General Motors Mark Rios disturbed “completely electricity, Ultium Corvette”But Chevy is not in a hurry to make this dream a reality. As the Corvette President, Tony Rome, puts it in a recent interview:” Nobody wants that. “
Rome said Autocar It will not build a Corvette electricity that did not rise to the level of the heritage of the model. “The badge means something for people,” he said. Rome said that when people buy Corvette, they do it because they want “something special” – they want to be “involved in the art of leadership.” He continued:
“I will not do EV and put the Corvette badge [that isn’t worthy] Of the 70 years of history. Nobody wants it. Sorry, I will stand on that. The badge means something for people. – Tony Rome, CEO of Engineers at Corvette
There are a lot of engineering challenges that will hinder the BowTie brand of something that Corvette wants. According to ROMA, Corvette will need an appropriate percentage of energy to weight with electrical ingredients, the right price and the correct extent; Until then, there are other challenges that go beyond that.
Rome is soon recognized, every car will be “incredibly fast”, and that Corvette will need to be “attractive” in new ways because the speed and 0-60 miles per hour have become “meaningless” with electric cars. Once Chefi can “discover” how to make an electrical device, “we will do,” he says, “But we will only make an electric version of the car to do so.”
He said that Corvette will become electric when “all the electric car is better than we have now. Until then, we will continue to do what we are doing now.” He added that Chevy needs to obtain “this visceral contact, the character you want to deal with, in an electric car.”
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It is not frank, even if it doesn’t happen soon. Rome said Autocar This “we will get there when the time comes”, which repeats the previous data he made after he became the new Corvette president last year. He said just months after Chevy took over, “Will” will only apply an electricity for that. “
Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors Marie Para Rome, has supported the company, “will be” new by the consumer “, and that the electric Corvette is not something that people now want. This may change on the road, so one should not “never say”, like the chief engineer of Corvette Josh Holder.