After the production start of the 2022 Chevy Bolt EV, and upon its arrival in U.S. dealerships late last month, General Motors began fine-tuning details to introduce the refreshed electric crossover in international markets. After the North American regions, one of the next countries to receive the 2022 Bolt EV is Brazil, where the vehicle is currently in testing phase.
The automaker has already started on-road validation testing of the refreshed 2022 Chevy Bolt EV in Brazil. In fact, the Brazilian media recently spotted a test team made up of two units rolling down the streets of the South American country. The vehicles bore São Paulo state engineering license plates and were partly camouflaged, hinting at their upcoming local introduction.
The sighting coincides with the expansion plans of the Bolt range announced by GM South America earlier this year which, in addition to the updated Bolt EV, includes the all-new 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV in Brazil and other countries of the region. It also occurs just a few days after the company announced its intention to triple the Chevrolet electric vehicle dealer network in Brazilian territory.
All this demonstrates the efforts GM is making to lead the electrification transition in Brazil’s automotive market and the region as a whole, where it hopes to capitalize on the growth of the zero-emission vehicle segment in the coming years with the refreshed Chevy Bolt EV and the new Bolt EUV. The two members of the Bolt family debuted in February, and play a key role in democratizing access to electric propulsion technology.
Both electric vehicles are equipped with a 288-cell lithium-ion battery pack rate at 65 kWh, along with a front-mounted electric motor that produces 200 horsepower and 266 pound-feet of torque. The Bolt EV has an EPA-estimated range of 259 miles on a single charge, while the slightly larger Bolt EUV has an estimated range of 247 miles.
2022 Chevy Bolt EUV
The new 2022 Chevy Bolt EV will debut in Brazil in the coming months, while its market introduction is expected during the first half of 2022, this time accompanied by the new Bolt EUV crossover. The new models will reinforce the company’s competitive advantage as the manufacturer that invests the most in the deployment of electric vehicles in the Brazilian market.
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Source: Autos Segredos
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Auto Segredos is not a 100% trustable source.
Because the sub-title of this site include “rumors”, one expects to find hearsay and rumors can start right here. It would be so helpful to have contributors indicate their source.
GM… Please get rid of that Ugly Ass Grill on the Front. That keeps me from buying one.
Why? Do you look at that grill when you drive? Only the other car drivers do! If that grill is the only problem, just ignore it and drive the Bolt EV clean, fast, and safe.
BEVs aren’t clean they have a massive carbon footprint. Stop lying to people.
@h4cksaw: Go suck on your gas car tailpipe with the engine running. If you can survive that for ten hours, then you are correct!
That’s not how a carbon footprint works, but witty comeback… Typical lowercase attitude.
Multiples studies have shown, that even with the manufacturing process accounted for, and minerals needed to produce the battery pack, it is still cleaner to charge an electric car off of a Diesel Generator, than it is to Purchase an ICE vehicle, and run it on 87 octane for the average vehicle lifetime.
what about a hybrid?
That’s a terrible blanket statement. I’m genuinely surprised it wasn’t all in lowercase font.
Depends on the the life-cycle of the BEV battery pack, you’ll be lucky to get 200k miles out of it before the battery degradation is a hinderance. Depends on a lot of things… The nice thing with an ICE is that if one thing breaks you can replace it, not the whole powerplant. If a battery pack fails or range is substantially decreased, sounds like you’ll need to replace the whole thing? sounds pretty wasteful.
As far as a blanket statement saying that BEVs are cleaner that’s entirely misleading. I guarantee you that the carbon footprint of a model X or HUMMER BEV is more than double the size of Chevy Spark. Here’s some white paper on the subject. www .
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Not just GM but all manufacturers need to start making those butt ugly front end’s look like an automobile!
I ask the same question: Why? The gasoline powered automobiles need a grill to allow cool air for the radiator, or else the engine will fail. If Tesla builds and sells hundreds of thousands of EVs with no grill, then the EV never needs a grill at all. At least the GM and Ford EVs have something to look at, and makes the changeover from gasoline to electricity more easy in looks. Tesla EVs look as ugly as fish or frogs!
There’s a group of people (mostly early adopters) that like their high tech electric car that’s different than everyone else’s car to also look different than everyone else’s car. But then there’s all the people like BJ that maybe wouldn’t mind having an electric car but don’t really want to advertise to everyone they are driving an electric car. And really it’s not the grill that looks funky on this, I think it’s the lighting (particularly the lower housings) that really look odd
The Bolt I see as still aimed towards early adopters, it doesn’t have the performance/capability to really be mainstream yet. But as the new Ultium cars come out I think you’ll see the styling become somewhat more traditional
You’re a real car guy eh Bud. LOL