Chevy Bolt sales decreased in the United States, Canada, and Mexico during the fourth quarter of 2021. Bolt family sales include the Chevy Bolt EV hatchback and Chevy Bolt EUV crossover.
Chevy Bolt Sales – Q4 2021 – United States
Cumulative deliveries of the Chevy Bolt family in the United States decreased 99 percent to just 25 units in Q4 2021, comprised of:
- 17 units of the Bolt EV, a decrease of 100 percent compared to 6,701 units sold in Q4 2020 and
- 8 units of the Bolt EUV, with no units sold before then since the model debuted after Q4 2020
Sales Numbers - Chevy Bolt - Q4 2021 - United States
| MODEL | Q4 21 / Q4 20 | Q4 21 | Q4 20 | YTD 21 / YTD 20 | YTD 21 | YTD 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOLT EV | -99.75% | 17 | 6,701 | +6.36% | 22,073 | 20,754 |
| BOLT EUV | * | 8 | * | * | 2,755 | 0 |
| TOTAL | -99.63% | 25 | 6,701 | +19.63% | 24,828 | 20,754 |
Chevy Bolt Sales – Q4 2021 – Canada
Deliveries of the Chevy Bolt EV in Canada decreased to negative 7 units in Q4 2021 compared to 1,262 units sold in Q4 2020. It appears that the negative amount is the result of the roll-back of vehicles previously marked as delivered.
Sales Numbers - Chevy Bolt - Q4 2021 - Canada
| MODEL | Q4 21 / Q4 20 | Q4 21 | Q4 20 | YTD 21 / YTD 20 | YTD 21 | YTD 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOLT EV | -100.55% | -7 | 1,262 | +15.98% | 4,668 | 4,025 |
| TOTAL | -100.55% | -7 | 1,262 | +15.98% | 4,668 | 4,025 |
Chevy Bolt Sales – Q4 2021 – Mexico
Deliveries of the Chevy Bolt EV in Mexico decreased 100 percent to zero units in Q4 2021 compared to 19 units sold in Q4 2020.
Sales Numbers - Chevy Bolt - Q4 2021 - Mexico
| MODEL | Q4 21 / Q4 20 | Q4 21 | Q4 20 | YTD 21 / YTD 20 | YTD 21 | YTD 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOLT EV | -100.00% | 0 | 19 | -55.26% | 17 | 38 |
| TOTAL | -100.00% | 0 | 19 | -55.26% | 17 | 38 |
Competitive Sales Comparison (USA)
Chevy Bolt sales were essentially non-existent during Q4 2021, with the Bolt family moving a mere 25 units combined due to a battery recall and associated stop-sale plus production stoppage impacting both the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV.
Sales Numbers - Mainstream Small EV Models - Q4 2021 - USA
| MODEL | Q4 21 / Q4 20 | Q4 21 | Q4 20 | Q4 21 SHARE | Q4 20 SHARE | YTD 21 / YTD 20 | YTD 21 | YTD 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TESLA MODEL Y | +706.00% | 40,300 | 5,000 | 33% | 6% | +451.76% | 172,700 | 31,300 |
| TESLA MODEL 3 | -21.63% | 33,700 | 43,000 | 28% | 49% | -24.80% | 128,600 | 171,000 |
| HYUNDAI KONA | -18.34% | 19,141 | 23,440 | 16% | 27% | +18.12% | 90,069 | 76,253 |
| FORD MUSTANG MACH-E | +276,066.67% | 8,285 | 3 | 7% | 0% | +904,566.67% | 27,140 | 3 |
| KIA NIRO | +69.47% | 7,121 | 4,202 | 6% | 5% | +50.24% | 26,192 | 17,434 |
| VOLKSWAGEN ID.4 | * | 4,463 | * | 4% | 0% | * | 16,742 | 0 |
| HYUNDAI IONIQ | -0.05% | 4,329 | 4,331 | 4% | 5% | +46.54% | 19,885 | 13,570 |
| NISSAN LEAF | +169.23% | 4,165 | 1,547 | 3% | 2% | +48.88% | 14,239 | 9,564 |
| HYUNDAI IONIQ 5 | * | 153 | * | 0% | 0% | * | 153 | * |
| CHEVROLET BOLT EV | -99.75% | 17 | 6,701 | 0% | 8% | +6.36% | 22,073 | 20,754 |
| CHEVROLET BOLT EUV | * | 8 | * | 0% | 0% | * | 2,755 | 0 |
| TOTAL | +37.92% | 121,682 | 88,224 | +53.16% | 520,548 | 339,878 |
Tesla’s two entries – the Model Y and Model 3 – took the top two spots, moving 40,300 and 33,700 units, respectively. Tesla’s combined 74,000 unit sales represent over 60 percent segment share.
Sales Numbers - Tesla Small EV Models - Q4 2021 - USA
| MODEL | Q4 21 / Q4 20 | Q4 21 | Q4 20 | Q4 21 SHARE | Q4 20 SHARE | YTD 21 / YTD 20 | YTD 21 | YTD 20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TESLA MODEL Y | +706.00% | 40,300 | 5,000 | 54% | 10% | +451.76% | 172,700 | 31,300 |
| TESLA MODEL 3 | -21.63% | 33,700 | 43,000 | 46% | 90% | -24.80% | 128,600 | 171,000 |
| TOTAL | +54.17% | 74,000 | 48,000 | +48.94% | 301,300 | 202,300 |
Filling out the podium was the Hyundai Kona, which moved 19,141 units, a number that includes non-BEV variants.
Making inroads into the segment was the Ford Mustang Mach-E (see running Ford Mustang Mach-E sales). The Ford EV took fourth place in the segment with 8,285 deliveries. The Kia Niro followed in fifth place with 7,121 units. As with the Kona, the Niro figures include non-BEV variants. The Volkswagen ID.4 took sixth place, moving 4,463 units while the Hyundai Ioniq took in seventh place with 4,329 units, also including non-BEV models. The Nissan Leaf, introduced over a decade ago as the first model in this segment, was in eighth place, accounting for 4,165 sales. The fully electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 took ninth place, moving 153 units.
The mainstream small EV segment accounted for 121,682 deliveries during Q4 2021, an uptick of 38 percent year-over-year.
The two Chevy Bolt models compete in the mainstream electric vehicles (EV) segment, in which we currently include all BEVs including crossovers, hatchbacks, and sedans. As more EVs enter the market, where there are enough similar vehicle types competing against each other to warrant a specific segment, we will break these out for more specific sales comparisons. Beyond the mainstream EV segment being discussed here, the remaining EV segment currently is the premium EV market that contains premium models from Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and some Tesla models (such as the Model S and Model X).
It’s also worth noting that Hyundai and Kia offer electric vehicles that also include variants with an internal combustion engine (ICE) and/or hybrid (HEV) and/or plug-in hybrid (PHEV) version. That includes the Hyundai Kona and Hyundai Ioniq along with the Kia Niro. Consequently these models do not offer a direct comparison to the Chevy Bolt models. A related Hyundai model, the similarly named Ioniq 5, is all-electric.
Also, several of the automakers listed here only recently entered the EV market, which is a fluid space with various manufacturing challenges.
The GM Authority Take
Chevy Bolt sales tanked late last year due to GM issuing multiple recalls and stop-sale orders for both the Chevy Bolt EV hatchback and Chevy Bolt EUV crossover due to the vehicles catching fire from a battery defect, and the subsequent, related production shutdown.
The initial recall back in November 2020 included almost 69,000 units of the Bolt EV worldwide after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched an investigation into reported Bolt EV fires a month earlier, in October. Then in July of last year, GM issued a second recall for Bolt EV battery pack fires impacting over 50,000 units. A month later in August, GM extended its recall to all model years of the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV. That included remaining 2019 model year vehicles, as well as all 2020, 2021 and 2022 models. The recall also included the recently-launched Bolt EUV. In November, GM Authority reported that The General was replacing the battery packs on all Bolt EV and Bolt EUV all-electric vehicles, even including unsold models. Consequently, Bolt models cannot be sold until they received new batteries.
At the time of the recalls and associated stop-sale orders, production of the vehicles went offline for the remainder of 2021 as GM prioritized getting repair parts to customers affected by the battery fire recall. This was after production had resumed in September 2021. Production downtime was then extended through February 2022.
In December 2021, a lawsuit was filed against GM and Bolt battery maker LG over the vehicles’ battery recall. A month later in January 2022, a class-action lawsuit was filed claiming the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV are unsafe to drive due to battery fire risks.
In February, the NHTSA closed its Bolt EV and Bolt EUV fire investigation, which was first opened after reports that units of two models had caught fire while charging or when the vehicles were towards the end of the battery charging cycle. GM’s recall included software to address the issue, as well as installation of a replacement battery, if needed. Later, an investigation from battery supplier LG Energy Solution revealed further fires had occurred to vehicles that had received the initial fix, resulting in further recalls from GM. It was eventually determined that the fires were the result of two individual manufacturing defects in the batteries themselves, specifically a torn anode tab as well as a folded separator.
GM’s recalls of the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV is expected to cost billions of dollars, with LG having committed to cover $1.9 billion of them. As GM replaces batteries in concert with LG and gets production ramped back up, we’ll see sales begin once again. While the Bolt family moved a scant 25 units during the fourth quarter of 2021, Chevy sold 6,701 units of the Bolt EV just a year ago.
The Bolt EUV debuted just last year, with little time for sales to show due to the above complications. Sales gains across the board will follow as the market warms up to EVs, with more models being introduced and charging infrastructure expanding, along with manufacturers and government agencies pivoting toward an all-electric vehicle future.
GM unveiled the refreshed 2022 Chevy Bolt EV and all-new 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV in a joint debut in February of 2021. Production of both models is set to restart on April 4th. GM Authority recently learned that production for the 2023 Chevy Bolt EV and 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV is slated to begin on May 9th.
Production of both models takes place exclusively at the GM Lake Orion Assembly plant in Michigan.
About The Numbers
- All percent change figures compared to Chevy Bolt family sales in Q4 2020, unless noted otherwise
- In the United States, there were 78 selling days in Q4 2021 and 79 selling days in Q4 2020
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Comments
Those charts are really hard to make sense out of. Probably be easier just to list the actual sales numbers, in actual chronological order.
GM relies upon obfuscation…
Remember: “There were only 13 ‘Confirmed’ Deaths…”
Mary didn’t count the Dead unless she personally put her fingers on the necks to detect a pulse. Only she could confirm. Or. Maybe it was because she was counting on her Toes, and because she only has 13 Toes, that’s all the Deaths she could confirm.
But but but according to delusional Mary the future is electric and GM will overtake Tesla by 2025.
Can’t wait for all of this to blow up in her face.
Why?
GM stock $43…
Tesla stock $900…
This article should have been delayed and posted tomorrow!
Will the new models be equipped with automatic fire extinguishers?
Mary Barra’s comment about quickly overtaking Tesla comes across to these ears as extremely Arrogant… One should wait until the sales have actually transpired before any bragging rights exist.
Russia’s insisting on sales of Oil, Gas, and critical raw materials, (like fertilizer and foodstuffs, besides lithium and Nickel) to ‘Unfriendly Countries’ in only Rubles or Gold should do a number on Gasoline and Diesel prices here, starting April 1st when the policy is implemented..
Biden and Company’s solution of course is to ‘Buy an electric car’… Fat chance that happens anytime soon seeing as GM basically hasn’t sold as few EVs since 2009. They sold many more 2011 volts in 2010 than they have in the past 3/4 of a year… I got one of the very LAST 2022 BOLT EUV’s back in June 2021.
That decision-making by Barra and company of only having ONE ev for sale (the EV and EUV have identical power trains) was total BS (BEYOND STUPIDITY).
They could have been selling plenty of cost-reduced economical (and profitable) – HIGHLY PRACTICAL – generation TWO Volts the whole time.
But GM always gets sick of their own products far earlier than their customers do. I drive 2 of their ‘supposedly obsolete’ plug-in electrics – the VOLT and the Caddy ELR.
They are supposedly replacing batteries of every BOLT ever made…. I’d say they are WAY behind schedule – and it wouldn’t surprise me if they pushed back ramp up of new BOLT EV and EUV production once again due to Shortages.
Mary Barra also said:
“There were only 13 confirmed Killings” so GM had no idea its Defective Ignitions were maiming and Killing Americans for over 10 years while GM Lied about it, paid Hundreds-of-Millions in legal fees to pound the families into the ground after they buried their loved ones.
Ok, so she didn’t say Killings, she said Deaths. But she lied so well before Congress that GM awarded her a $20 Million Dollar Bonus.
So keep that in mind when Mary Barra says GM is the EV leader.
GM made a much bigger deal about the ignition switch issue than other CEOs would have… Lee Iaccoca (ex ford and Chrysler ceo) WOULDN’T HAVE PAID OUT A DIME.
He’d have said that only keys supplied by Chrysler Corporation may be used in the ignition switch and that having 20 keys on the key ring (actually anything more than the 2 keys supplied from the factory voids the warranty, and that customers deFacto void their warranties if they have keys having nothing to do with proper operation of the car, and must hold Chrysler HARMLESS.
As far as the Bolt Fires:
1). GM is supposedly doing much more than expected…. I only say supposedly since I am waiting for my Brand New Battery at no expense to me.
2). You have a much greater chance of being killed in any other car – or having it cause property damage – than any Bolt Fire.- by a factor of 100 to 1. Actually more so since there to date haven’t been any.
Doesn’t matter how many times this is reiterated…. All these sick joke comments about fires will disappear once the batteries are changed out… With the Hummer, Silverado, and Lyriq – we’ll have to see how much better presumably the new Ultium stuff is.
The Bolt will be back, probably replaced by Equinox/Blazer EV with the damaging recall..
Na. The reputation damage is already done.
If I see a Bolt park next to me it will get a nice sticker put on it declaring that fire hazard needs to be moved.
Stock up on those stickers. There’s tons of demand for EVs out there now, and not a lot of product available. Production is resuming in a matter of days and I am confident GM will sell every single Bolt they can build.
And there’s actually zero indication of any issues with the battery in ’20 and later models (and, of course, the new ones). Even the ’19 models that were the most “fire-prone” had WAY lower incidence of fires than ICE vehicles. But ICE fires aren’t newsworthy so nobody bothers with that, right?
That little car on fire sure made a big mess.
Even a Bolt battery on fire makes much less TRAUMA than a Model S going up…….. That car totally disintegrates, and the penlight sized batteries shoot through the passenger cabin like rifle shots.
The Model S gets a pass over the multitudes of death caused by that car – whether the propensity to drive UNDERNEATH white semis – or spontaneous combustion of the battery packs. In one instance, the front axle of the car FLEW OVER A COLUMN OF TRAFFIC.
Musk doesn’t even have to do any recalls of the S even though it is obvious to anyone with half a brain that the car is dangerous either from:
1). Supercharging.
2). Getting in a collision.
3). Using the Autopilot.
Since GM is the “EV Leader’ (says Mary Barra) there is definitely one way to insure higher sales…
Insure GM’s EVs have another unique way to Kill. GM’s Killer ignitions worked wonders. There is no telling how many people bought one for a dispised spouse, a hated child, etc., probably far fewer for a neighbor they wanted to get rid of, but you get my point. So long as it Kills, it will sell.
GM won’t let us down, that’s ine thing you can count on. GM didn’t energe from Bankruptcy to make excellent cars, they emerged to Kill.