"GM always can't do anything." He said that GM had promised to produce 40,000 ventilators immediately, but now it has changed its mind, saying that it can only produce 6,000 ventilators by the end of April, and the asking price is too high. And criticized GM CEO Mary Bora for "always making a mess."
Then I sent a tweet @ GM and Ford, ordering GM to start producing ventilators immediately. And six exclamation points were added after "immediately" and "hurry".
In the global automobile industry, Mr. President's true nature has not been digested. Even when some media wrote that "the relationship between GM and the White House was tense again", Trump changed his mouth two days later and praised GM's two appearances on March 29th.
"GM is doing very well, and we don't need to worry about GM anymore."
"They seem to be really working hard, and I think they will receive good news from GM."
Trump only launched the National Defense Production Law (DPA) on March 27th, clearing legal obstacles for car companies to switch to ventilators. Prior to this, he was criticized for failing to help enterprises speed up the transformation of medical equipment. The American media believes that Trump criticized GM at that time in order to give GM. He said GM wasted time talking about conditions. Earlier on the same day, General Motors said it could start producing ventilators immediately.
On March 29th, General Motors released photos of its Indian factory producing ventilators. Gerald Johnson (Gerald? Johnson) said that it plans to produce 10000 ventilators every month by summer.
"We hope to start and run the ventilator by mid-April," Johnson said. GM has been working with Ventec, a ventilator company. Life? System cooperation, and these ventilators need to be approved by the US regulatory authorities, a lot of tests must be carried out, and more than 65,438+0,000 workers must be trained for assembly.
A GM spokesman said that it is unprofitable for GM to produce ventilators at "cost price". The assembly cost is tens of millions of dollars, and if the assembly cost of suppliers is included, the total cost will reach hundreds of millions of dollars.
Other car companies in the United States are also working hard to produce medical equipment such as ventilators and masks. ? Ford said on March 27th that it would produce ventilators as soon as possible. Toyota is working with "at least two companies that produce ventilators and masks to help them improve their productivity".
GM will also start producing surgical masks at the Michigan factory, and it is estimated that by mid-April, 50,000 surgical masks will be produced every day.
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