One of the most important things prospective buyers have in mind when looking into buying a car is how safe the vehicle is. For customers in the market for a safe EV have to look no further, as the Chevy Bolt EUV has received top marks from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
As a quick refresher, the NHTSA announced last fall that it would be conducting crash tests of several GM vehicles, including the 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV. And now, the results were recently posted on the administration’s website.
The Chevy Bolt EUV was awarded a fiive-star rating in almost every test, which includes Front, Side Barrier and Side Pole tests. The Bolt EUV got a four-star rating in rollover tests. This lead to a five-star Overall Safety Rating, the highest score awarded by the NHTSA.
In addition, the Chevy Bolt EUV’s safety technology, which includes Forward Collision Alert, Lane Departure Warning, and Automatic Braking, also meets or exceeds the NHTSA’s performance criteria.
It’s worth noting that the 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV garnered the same ratings as the 2022 model. Meanwhile, test results of the 2022 and 2023 Chevy Bolt EV have not yet been published, and thus the crossover hasn’t received a safety rating.
As a reminder, the Chevy Bolt EUV rides on the GM BEV2 platform and utilizes a single electric motor, which produces 200 horsepower and 266 pound-feet of torque driving the front wheels. A 65 kWh lithium-ion battery provides 247 miles of range on a single charge. The closely related Chevy Bolt EV uses the same underpinnings and technology, but range sits slightly higher at 259 miles due to its slightly smaller size and lower weight.
Production of the 2023 Chevy Bolt EV and Bolt EUV began on July 21st, 2022 at the GM Orion Assembly plant in Michigan.
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I passed one of the new Bolts on the way home from work last night. It’s a cute little bug of a car but I don’t want any part of sharing the rush hour interstate traffic in it. I much prefer to negotiate that in my Silverado.
The Bolt EUV may be cute and [relatively] little, but it is pretty weighty for its size, about 3,715 lb. in full dress curb weight. That battery mass probably helps explain crash performance in the good numbers and the not quite as good number when it goes upside down. Not having to deal with crash loads stacking up though the mass of an engine block helps too. It’ll be interesting to see the crash worthiness numbers for EV trucks as they also could be designed to channel and dissipate crash energy without the large engine block and transmission in the path.
Now, what batteries do after having been in a crash is another question. At lest one towing company in the county where I live won’t move a wrecked EV. How much of that is hyped fear and how much is a real potential issue I don’t know. If it were a real thing, we’d probably be seeing scary news reports showing wrecked EV conflagrations.
I’m still waiting for the 2023 Bolt EV I ordered on August 11, 2022. Can anyone help?
If you ordered something on your Bolt that GM does not have you will be pushed back further on the list! Check with your ordering dealership to see if that has happened to you!!!
The best car that GM makes, and hates to do proper marketing.
They are selling pretty much every one they can make. It’s not about lack of marketing, but lack of production.
If you ordered something on your Bolt that GM does not have you will be pushed back further on the list! Check with your ordering dealership to see if that has happened to you!!!