Despite no solid release date (yet) for the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, things are charging along at supplier LG.
Autoblog reports LG Electronics has begun ramping up production for the 2017 Bolt EV’s 60 kWh battery pack, a deal lasting six years between the supplier and General Motors. The production also gives merit to the rumored October production start for the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, but Chevy has not commented on when the vehicle will officially be produced.
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will go at least 200 miles on a single charge from its battery and cost $37,500 before federal tax credits and other incentives. Chevy will also be the first automaker to bring a relatively affordable electric vehicle to market; the 2017 Bolt EV will be on sale by the end of 2016.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if they really want to move these things they shouldn’t be transparent.
4th quarter of 2016 gm has already said.
Makes you wonder whether General Motors will follow Tesla and borrow the battery used in the Bolt to create an electric extended range CUV.
One thing that tree-huggers should remember about all ELECTRIC powered vehicles like the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV is that it is a LIE created to make them feel better about the environment because EIGHTY percent of all the electricity used in the Unites States comes from fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal); thus, while the Chevy Bolt EV may not generate any green house gases when driven, it still does have a green house footprint as it is the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by a fossil fuel power plant to generate the electricity necessary for the 2017 Chevy Bolt EV to travel 12,000 miles in a year and what’s worst is that hypocrites like President Obama has done NOTHING to increase the US Power Grid as there isn’t enough electricity capacity to support a country where everyone uses an electric vehicle.
I think every environmentalist is fully aware of the fact of how electricity is produced in the US. The point is we are now taking transportation out of the equation and then we can focus on cleaning up the grid. And even with the current grid in the US, electric cars still emit less CO2 than a gasoline powered car (despite the contrary studies that take the full life cycle of electricity and fail to compare it to a full life cycle of gasoline). According to many studies they assume the production of gasoline has no environmental impact.
Irregardless many EV owners are now electing to install solar at their homes. And sure solar isn’t perfect either. But the issue with our environment isn’t about reducing our environmental impact to zero. It’s about reducing our impact to a level that is sustainable.
“One thing that tree-huggers should remember”
One way to instantly discount an environmental point is calling people ‘tree huggers’. As if the point of protecting the planet is to save trees… instead of lives.
Tsk tsk
And what happens when you live in a place were 70%+ of electricity is produced by hydro? Is the Bolt still a lie?
The moronic argument is that the electro-infrastructure must exist FIRST before one electric car is offered. That’s like saying vegetarians must be lined up in front of steak houses before they’ll serve a salad.
Long, long before there was the first energy crisis, long before the world knew of the scourge that is the hippie, we were building hydro dams, even when gas was 10X cheaper than what it is now.
Call it foresight, but when other nations control the supply of energy to your country, you should look for ways to get out of arrangement as soon as possible.
In the Bolt’s case, part of it can be rationalized as a logical outcome of demanding national energy independence, and the other half is simply because the infrastructure for electrical distribution has existed here for well over 100 years. The green-cred is simply a bonus and yet one more giant middle finger I can give to OPEC.