As if the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV didn’t already have enough going for it, the vehicle’s owner’s manual has spilled a pleasant surprise. According to the Bolt EV’s owner’s manual, the vehicle will require almost zero maintenance for the first 150,000 miles.
You can do a lot of things and go to a lot of places in 150,000 miles. That’s a big, significant number for drivers who despise keeping up on regularly scheduled maintenance.
Specifically, the Bolt EV’s manual recommends tire rotations every 7,500 miles, cabin air filter replacements every 22,500 miles and a coolant flush at 150,000 miles. Regardless of mileage, the manual also recommends brake fluid changes every five years. That’s it.
The potential to have an extraordinarily low cost of ownership is very good with the 2017 Bolt EV, knowing it doesn’t take much to rotate the tires and change an air filter on your own, which normally cost around $20.
The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV should be arriving very shortly to its first customers on the west coast, while the entire nation will see a roll out through 2017. As a simple refresher, the Bolt EV will go 238 miles on a single charge and can be purchased for as low as $29,995 after federal tax credits.
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I have the 2015 Chevrolet Spark EV Owner Manual, and it has a similar maintenence schedule, except it adds a transmission fluid change after 95,000 miles (or ten years). Since then, I knew that BEVs will change the future of vehicular maintenence, such that the owner will save thousands of dollars and have a very low TOC in its lifetime. For the same reasons, many dealers will not want to sell the BEVs because they will lose that future income of engine and brake servicing that the obsolete gas engine vehicles still need.
Other than oil changes and antifreeze regular cars are pretty much hands off too.
Cars in general have come a long way.
and de-sludging the heads of DI engines, and annual/biannual smog check, and replacing:
~ turbo’s
~ Exhaust, cat, mufflers
~ clutches for manuals and clutch packs for paddle-shifters
~ radiator water and flexible pipes, water pump, fan belt
~ brakes and rotors which wear more quickly without regen
~ Spark plugs, lines
~ Cylinder head gasket, o-rings, bolts
ALL these things will need a trip to the repair shop and money to pay the bills at least twice over, most three times over, in 150,000 miles. Scott3, are you the patent-holder for the Scottoiler?
Tooting your own horn again?
De-cludging is really carbon build up and it is not something all experience. Most drivers have ever needed it.
I will yeild to the smog check as it is unavoidable to some.
No need to replace turbochargers at 150K as most will go more than that.
Stainless exhaust now will do 150K with no issues and the converter will last that long if the engine has no outside problems.
Clutch replacment? that is 5% of the market anymore.
Radiator antifreeze. How about the cooling system for the batteries in the EV?
Brakes wear on both and on both they will last a long time.
Spark plugs will last 100K and same for wires. both are cheap.
Cylinder head gaskets? What kind of cars are you buying. Yugo’s?
Now on the EV you not only have the added cost of the car. You have the added cost of a charging system and installation of it.
Then you have the time you spend waiting for a charge if you only have one car. Then if you have a second ICE car then refer to your list of issues and my counter of them.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both cars so cut the BS. They both have a special place to different people. Some people wear cowboy boots and others Nikes. Neither are wrong and what is right depends on the person who wears them.
There will be no forgiving gm after owning a 1992 or3 something sunbird,buddy says same thing after owning fully loaded 1992 olds cutlass. Have Mazda twice as old with triple miles still keeps going almost zero problems now 17 years old.
It is good you are happy with the Mazda but you can not judge GM today to GM of 1992.
My 1990 Pontiac sucked but my present 4 GM cars all have been trouble free. One is 31 years old and still has the factory Freon in it. Boy the old stuff really gets cold.
The truth is I can show you some great Mazda cars and I can show you some with issues too. They all have diamond and duds.
1990 was a bad time of money and mismanagement. They would get some things right and they did get many things wrong too. But today they are better managed, better funded and things are just much more improved today. They like all companies still have room to improve.
Can I judge GM for the ignition switch issues they knew about for years and did nothing about it killing people in the process. From around 2001 when they first detected it to 2014 when they were still lying about it?
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/31/297158876/timeline-a-history-of-gms-ignition-switch-defect
Scott3 I completely agree! Particularly the part where you say 1990 was a financial and management bad-time, after 10 years of Reagan and Bush I. Clinton restored our economy, then Bush II destroyed it again. Obama restored it, and Trump….
No Agreement here.
This was a business issue not a political issue.
Obama ran the debt up more than anyone and there is no way he could ever fix a company.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery”.
Winston Churchill
Old Trombone, if racking up over 10 trillion dollars in debt is fixing the economy, then I guess I can go out, overdraft my bank account and call myself a millionaire. Not to mention that Trump already saved/created over 3000 american jobs, rejected a salary, reduced the cost of Air Force I, and promised to donate any profits from his foreign hotels to the US treasury…..Oh wait, didn’t he just take office today? Holy S*&T! He was helping the american people before he even took office and people are still finding ways to hate him. If “love trumps hate” then why are there people still protesting Trump instead of accepting him.