Chevy Bolt? What do you think?

[EAGLE5]

I'm 90% sure I'm going to get a Chevy Bolt. 200 miles range = getting everything we need done 99% of the time, including the days when we make lots of trips around the Bay Area. Really, for the rare trip to Socal, we have another car. If we don't, we can rent. I can make it to Monterey, do a quick charge for 15 minutes somewhere along the way back, and have charge to spare. It will be a good car for a canyon road with the low CG. Plenty of room for kids in the back.

Yes, I'll keep the FR-S.

What do you guys think?

[go_a_way1]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

I'm 90% sure I'm going to get a Chevy Bolt. 200 miles range = getting everything we need done 99% of the time, including the days when we make lots of trips around the Bay Area. Really, for the rare trip to Socal, we have another car. If we don't, we can rent. I can make it to Monterey, do a quick charge for 15 minutes somewhere along the way back, and have charge to spare. It will be a good car for a canyon road with the low CG. Plenty of room for kids in the back.

Yes, I'll keep the FR-S.

What do you guys think?

I like the Volt TBH, like alot! And FYI 15 minutes of charge will do nothing lol! These kinds of cars need 12+hours to charge on 120V or like 8 hours on 220V or somthing like that. The Volt is nice cuz it has a gas generator on it.

[KR-S]

Chevy... Bolt?

???

[Dadhawk]

@jsimon7777 don't know it is intentional or not but your survey says "Volt" but your OP is obviously for the "Bolt".


I love the idea of the Volt. It is about as close as I would ever get to an electric car until the infrastructure is in place for me to drive from GA to CA without having to plan my trip around fuel stops.


The Bolt seems to be a good compromise for what it is, and has a great projected range. Still wouldn't buy one. Before I bought a Bolt, I'd buy a Zero motorcycle.

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

@jsimon7777 don't know it is intentional or not but your survey says "Volt" but your OP is obviously for the "Bolt".


I love the idea of the Volt. It is about as close as I would ever get to an electric car until the infrastructure is in place for me to drive from GA to CA without having to plan my trip around fuel stops.


The Bolt seems to be a good compromise for what it is, and has a great projected range. Still wouldn't buy one. Before I bought a Bolt, I'd buy a Zero motorcycle.

Hah! I meant Bolt. I don't want a Volt. That just tells you how badly they named the car. Too confusing!

I don't want a gas engine in my electric car. One reason to get an EV is to avoid all the internal combustion maintenance.

[go_a_way1]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Hah! I meant Bolt. I don't want a Volt. That just tells you how badly they named the car. Too confusing!

I don't want a gas engine in my electric car. One reason to get an EV is to avoid all the internal combustion maintenance.

Thats a good point!!

[strat61caster]

The Volt was a great hybrid, Chevy was the first company to mass market production with an electric engine capable of freeway speeds (they beat Nissan by a few months) and it totally rivaled the Prius on all the boring stuff and knocked it outta the park in acceleration (dat electric engine) and a modern range and no recharge time.

It was let down by being a GM product, from reputation to marketing, the car seems to have been a flop for no reason at all other than people who buy 'reliable economical fuel efficient appliances that go on the freeway' don't buy GM products, and people who buy GM products don't necessarily care about 'reliable economical fuel efficient appliances that go on the freeway'.

The Bolt is going to suffer a similar fate. Those with the expendable cash to jump on the EV hype train, all those internet shitposters waiting for Tesla's model 3, are probably going to wait for the Model 3. Like the 86, those who actually put their money where there mouth is are few and far between, Jsimmon is one of them, enjoy it!



I think it was a Jalopnik comment that posted this Elon Musk quote, it's most relevant now even though he said it years ago.

[Question about competitor's electric cars] That was the intent! That was the whole idea.

No, I don't think so. Like I said, the whole purpose of Tesla was to draw the car industry into electric cars. So I'm- the more electric car programs more I see announced the happier I am. "The success of Tesla as a company financially is going to be a function of the quality of the products that we produce. So we have to make better cars than, say, GM and Chrysler. I don't see that as a huge challenge." *laugh*

[KR-S]

For all this time, I was wondering why Simon was misspelling Volt and wanting to take a hybrid to a canyon road, until I looked it up...

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

... It was let down by being a GM product, from reputation to marketing, the car seems to have been a flop for no reason at all other than people who buy 'reliable economical fuel efficient appliances that go on the freeway' don't buy GM products, and people who buy GM products don't necessarily care about 'reliable economical fuel efficient appliances that go on the freeway'..

Not sure I'd say it was a let-down. It was the 3rd best selling "electric" car behind Tesla and the Leaf in 2015. Not exactly shabby numbers for a
niche" car. I see more of them on the roads here in Atlanta than I do of the BRZ and FRS combined.





Source article: http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Not sure I'd say it was a let-down. It was the 3rd best selling "electric" car behind Tesla and the Leaf in 2015. Not exactly shabby numbers for a
niche" car. I see more of them on the roads here in Atlanta than I do of the BRZ and FRS combined.





Source article: http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/

Huh I had no idea it was doing that well, but if you asked me how many electric cars I knew were on the market as of last year I would have said 4, and that's because Sergio Marchionne said the 500e was a waste of a car and he wished he didn't have to sell them...

[pushrod]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Not sure I'd say it was a let-down. It was the 3rd best selling "electric" car behind Tesla and the Leaf in 2015. Not exactly shabby numbers for a
niche" car. I see more of them on the roads here in Atlanta than I do of the BRZ and FRS combined.

Didn't Atlanta have an incentive to buy electric cars, and once that program ended, sales "ran out of juice"?

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Hah! I meant Bolt. I don't want a Volt. That just tells you how badly they named the car. Too confusing!

I don't want a gas engine in my electric car. One reason to get an EV is to avoid all the internal combustion maintenance.

A range extender would only require minimal maintenance, since the oil and spark plugs and such would last much longer if you're keeping the car charged up.

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

Huh I had no idea it was doing that well, but if you asked me how many electric cars I knew were on the market as of last year I would have said 4, and that's because Sergio Marchionne said the 500e was a waste of a car and he wished he didn't have to sell them...

He said that, but other than the 4C, it's the best car his company makes.

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

A range extender would only require minimal maintenance, since the oil and spark plugs and such would last much longer if you're keeping the car charged up.

True, but it's still a huge lump of metal the car is carrying around, a lump I don't want or need. With a Volt, we'll be using the gas engine somewhat often. With a Bolt, we'll be good, end of story.