lynn calder

Interesting and candid piece https://archive.ph/GAqy5

In a recently done interview with Lynn Calder she questions the agency sales model, which is in place in some (not all) countries. This model was choosen by many manufacturers when there were more demand for cars, then it is now. More and more OEMS turn away from the agency model. When asked...

" 2400 parts to procure, from over 400 suppliers worldwide.. " https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/cars-bikes-and-boats/the-woman-who-s-bucking-the-worldwide-trend-in-car-making-20230619-p5dhkt Use the 12ft ladder website to read full article. https://12ft.io/

Some interesting snippets. "In the case of the Ineos electric 4×4 that Calder plans to have on sale in 2026, the powertrain costs roughly three times as much as a combustion equivalent. ‘It will only get worse as more and more countries pull from those limited raw materials." "We might pretty...

"We've learned a lot (after the start of European production). It's not a vastly different vehicle that we're building, but the US will, I hope, customers will be the determinant, but the U.S. will benefit from everything we learned last year. And we'll be getting a kind of more modern...

We need to do better Hi Christoph, We’re experiencing one of the toughest supply chains in recent memory. So, I don’t think it’s a shock to most of you that building the Grenadier in this environment was always going to be challenging. But, while we’ve been systematically working through...