We've got an electric vehicle maker with some stumbles and self-driving on today's show and then

Tesla reports tomorrow.

You're listening to Motley Full Money.

I'm Ricky Mallby.

I'm Ricky Mulvey.

Joined today by Bill Barker.

Bill, thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

All right, first up, let's talk about General Motors.

I founded an interesting company to observe.

It reported today and its investors are pleased with the carmaker beating

top and bottom line guidance. I'll give you the menu of things that are going on and maybe you can

pick out what's interesting to you.

The sales of pickups for GM made up for a loss in China.

They're keeping car prices steady.

The CFO Paul Jacobson implied that they are moving toward profitability in selling EVs.

The CFO speak for this is quote, year over year improvements in variable profit in Ebit margins,

end quote.

And then another big story is that Cruz, their autonomous vehicle ambitions are coming back,

expected to relaunch after a bad accident in October, and that project is expected to cost 1.7 billion dollars this year.

Bill there's there's your menu what do you want to what do you want to select off the

menu of topics for our friends at General Motors? I guess that, you know, that there's a fair fight between pickups and the loss of business in China.

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