If anything it seems to be Ford and Chrysler doing the bare minimum. They offer EV versions of their cars, but they're not common and not pushed very heavily. At least GM has an all-electric model that stands on its own and isn't just an EV variant of another model (it's not "the Chevy Bolt EV", it's just "the Chevy Bolt" because there is no "Chevy Bolt ICE".) GM's electric offering was built from the ground up to be an electric car, and has won tons of awards for actually being a good car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ogGZXmepY
>GM's electric offering was built from the ground up to be an electric car, and has won tons of awards for actually being a good car.
The Bolt actually used many of the Chevy Sonic hardware/parts so I would hardly call it being built from the ground up. I mean, they look pretty much the same. It's like the Tesla roadster 1.0 which used Lotus parts.
According to GM, the Bolt shares no components of the Sonic.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/2017-chevrolet-bolt-ev-pho...
>all-new chassis called BEV II, which isn’t related to the Gamma platform on the Sonic hatchback. Despite the Bolt’s compact footprint, it’s longer than the Sonic by 5.0 inches, wider by 1.2 inches, higher by 3.1 inches, and has a 3.0-inch-longer wheelbase
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1106137_chevy-bolt-ev-n...
>GM says the Chevy Bolt EV does not share any elements of those vehicles' small-car architecture, which was developed by its Korean small-car team.
>"There are no Bolt EV parts tied to the G2 architecture"
Sounds pretty "ground up" to me.