The Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV currently serve as The General’s entry-level all-electric vehicles, offering zero local emissions and surprising practicality, all at an affordable price point. Now, GM has confirmed that production of the Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV will officially come to an end later this year. The announcement confirms a GM Authority exclusive published this past January.
During GM’s recent Q1 2023 earnings conference call, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed that Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV production will end at the end of the calendar year. Both models are currently produced at the GM Lake Orion plant in Michigan. With the departure of the Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV, the facility will be retooled to support production of the Chevy Silverado EV pickup following a substantial investment.
GM addressed the changeover with a statement:
“When the Chevrolet Bolt EV launched, it was a huge technical achievement and the first affordable EV, which set in motion GM’s all-electric future. As the company continues to grow its EV portfolio with the Ultium platform, and as construction continues at the Orion Township, Michigan assembly plant in preparation for battery electric truck production beginning in 2024, Chevrolet confirmed Bolt EV and EUV production will end late this year,” GM stated. “Chevrolet will launch several new EVs later this year based on the Ultium platform in key segments, including the Silverado EV, Blazer EV and Equinox EV.”
According to GM Authority sources, production of the Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV will end on November 7th, 2023. For reference, production of the current 2023-model-year vehicles began in July of the 2022 calendar year. GM is planning on building 70,000 units of the all-electric models during 2023.
As a reminder, the Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV both ride on the GM BEV2 platform. Both feature a front-mounted Voltec drive motor powered by a 65 kWh battery pack, with peak output rated at 200 horsepower and 266 pound-feet of torque.
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Talk about a total sucker punch to the gut. I’ve been a strong GM guy all my life and have purchased well over 25 *NEW* GM vehicles in the 40 years I’ve been driving. Of my last 6 vehicles, 5 have been GM. I’ve had my 2023 Bolt for less than 6 months now and love it. And…………………GM will likely never see one penny of my money again. I will not take my Bolt to any GM dealer for anything unless a recall or warranty. I will not buy any of their SUV/CUV’s. I will not buy any of their trucks. I will no longer recommend GM to my friends or family. I am done. I am sick of GM kicking me in the ba**s every chance they get and I will not allow them the opportunity any more. A person can only take so much and this has finally pushed me over that line.
In the meantime, I’m going to sit back and watch the Hummers be recalled and the batteries replaced due to the water leak. How funny that a vehicle made for “off-road” is already having problems from a water leak. Have fun replacing all the batteries there in those turds. I hope Ram gets their EV truck out soon and I hope it slaughters the Silverado EV.
Why do you care that they are discontinuing it just because you bought one? This model was never a long-term-venture. These cars were a place holder and served as a technical platform until they introduced their trailblazer and other vehicles. Just because it’s being discontinued, doesn’t mean the cars are no good.
You bought the car for a reason, so enjoy its use.
reality check:
Two words: RESALE VALUE
I doubt this will hurt resale much if at all. There is no competition in the Bolt’s class. All other EV’s are either much more expensive of have very short range.
Two words: Nissan Leaf.
Two words: Never Japanese.
If he really cared about money he would invest the money instead of buying a car…..
“I won be cause I lost less money on this depreciating asset….I are an investor…I’m freaking Jimmy Buffett and Gordon Geico all in one!!!”
Resale value is a crap myth that no one cares about.
Alan: I’ll walk everywhere I go or do what MrR suggests and go without a car before I’d ever give a dime to that sh*thole company Toyota.In fact, no Japanese company will get a dime of mine. So walking will work or I’ll just drive one of my old Cadillac’s until they die.
I’d rather go back to horse and buggy before driving Jap crap or an EV.
There are no purely American or purely Japanese or German cars anymore. No “American” cars use 100% American parts. In fact, a significant number of Chinese-made parts and electronics are used in most “American” cars, even ones (such as Corvette) that are assembled in American factories. Many “American” cars are assembled in Mexico and Canada (and a few are imported from Brazil), while most Japanese and many Korean brands are assemble in American auto plants. Even BMW, Mercedes, and Volkswagen have huge American assembly plants. So, don’t kid yourself about “American” cars actually being American.
I drive my vehicles for at least 10 years, resale value means nothing to me. I would never drive a foreign vehicle and told my kids if they buy one I will not work on it.
Toyota does not offer an electric vehicle!
Oh..okay Dan. I get it. gm owes you because you bought their car. They need to keep it in production so you can have a better resale value. I didn’t know that they have a duty owed to you. I forgot, they’re not allowed to run their business as they see fit without getting customer approval first. Thanks for enlightening me. I’ll make a note.
poor ole dan feels betrayed because they dont make his rc car anymore, now imagine all the folks who genuinely enjoy an ice vehicle? wow think about that, its quite the reverse, hes griping cause they dont make his poor pos anymore and the rest of us are griping cause there gonna shove his type of car down our throat. Talk about crying wolf, poor ole dan, hope he recovers.
Good luck with getting Pep Boys to work on your Bolt for non warranty issues. You better hope a mouse doesn’t get in there and do any damage.
Who has their car worked on at Pep Boys???
This guy might have to. He said ” I will not take my Bolt to any GM dealer for anything unless a recall or warranty.” Also, a quick Google search shows Pep Boys have been in business since 1921 and currently have 930 operational locations. So it’s pretty obvious that quite a few people do have their cars worked on there.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t see other brand’s dealers working on off-brand EVs. Where else are you supposed to take these cars when the dealers are going to be the ones with all of the appropriate tools to work on them? GM sent us a whole lot of special tools for the Bolts, upwards of $35,000 worth. Good luck taking it anywhere else.
I’ll just dump it. Who cares any more? GM certainly doesn’t care about it’s customers unless you are ok spending $50 grand or more for an SUV or truck. There’s a lot of non GM or Ford brands that I can purchase from that are also not Japanese.
My next CAR will be a Volvo, Polestar or Tesla. Good bye forever GM.
I’ll give you $1,500 cash for it, it’s distressed merchandise.
Goodbye Dan B. We’ll miss (or will we) all of your “where are all the sedans at” posts.
Volvo sounds about right. Wait..do they have your sedan?
here’s your new post-place:
http://www.volvoauthority.com
So, you won’t buy Japanese, but you will consider a Volvo or Polestar, both of which are owned by the Chinese auto company Geely? Why do you seem to despise our ally Japan but support our current enemy China?
Not me, no EV’s wanted here.
Pep Girls
Maybe it’s not so bad and they’re only redesigning the Bolt. GM did say they were working on a new $25k EV. They kind of did the same thing with the Trax, killing it before announcing a new iteration.
First time huh?
No “GM loyalist” who bought “40 new GM cars” would talk the way you do. Why would you even want such an anti American car anyway? Gas engines ARE America. Electric motors belong on another planet. EVs are cars for people who HATE CARS.
IROC Z you are totally wrong. I am buying a Bolt because I love cars. I grew up in the taxi industry here in Montreal and my father bought all sorts of cars. Seen them all and drove them. You probably have never driven an EV. You are a troll who hates cars. The Bolt is the best low priced vehicle around. Too bad they are letting it go. They could sell $hitloads.
Ive said it before, you and Carl should get together and start a band called ” We dont know anything”. favorite song ” I want my horse back”.
DIng Ding DIng!!!
There it is…when all else fails, fall back on totally incorrect “ICE cars are horses” analogy……
Its never a real electric car thread until someone makes this comparison.
Man, you’re as dramatic as a teen age girl.
Open your eyes and think about the big picture. The Bolt is on an outdated platform and upgrading isn’t reasonable. They need to end production so the facility can be converted to production of Ultium products. Products they’re far more likely to make profits on versus the Bolt.
Did you seriously not expect the Bolt to end production in the short term when you bought your bolt?
So are you going to leave GMA as well since you’re all crabby at GM?
If you don’t like what I say, then why read it? There are people out there just like me who don’t care about having the newest and latest stuff. I (we) don’t want to pay 5, 10 or 15 grand more just to have the newest that still does the same thing the old one does. I could care less if YOU think the Bolt is outdated because it’s not. It does everything the others do and in some cases better and for way less money. And no, I absolutely didn’t think GM was going to kill the Bolt. Maybe I missed that memo or article on here, because when I received my “valued customer” email form Chevrolet yesterday morning, it was a total sucker punch.
Had I known that GM was killing the Bolt, I absolutely 100% would NEVER have purchased it. Never. Oh, and yes I am totally walking away from GM. A person can only take so many kicks in the groin before they’ve had enough. Yesterday was that line for me.
Dan im afraid the feelings your having will become more prominent with current and future ev owners. Every Ev out there will go thru this one way or another, there’s always gonna be a better battery, better this better that. Most all evs bought are already out dated in terms of technology and efficiency. Also resalve values are already not very good. I’m sure one day when all the good ice vehicles are gone and we are forced to by one of the remote controlled cars that supposedly are saving the planet(horse hockey) we will just all have to live withit.
bill: I will overall agree with that mainly because it’s just kind of the way electronics are. Yes EV’s are vehicles, but still electronics first and foremost. The difference is when I do actually go out and buy a new cell phone (I-phones), I always buy the older model that is not the latest and greatest. Same with the laptop I just purchased last week. It’s the way I am, but I also don’t bash on those who are willing to pay higher prices to have the newest/greatest phones or laptops. I don’t agree with it, but don’t have an issue with it either. But that’s not the same. Here we have Chevy dealers charging buyers well over MSRP for these. I paid MSRP, plus the BS LoJack the dealer stuck up my a**, less a $500 incentive I had, less the GM points I’ve built up. So even with LoJack, I still paid just a hair less than MSRP before tax. Based on what most people were paying, it was a fair deal and I took the car because I special ordered it with the exact options I wanted and didn’t have to take all the extra stuff I didn’t want. Also, because of where I live in southern California, the resale on these is better than in many parts of the country. So now with GM’s kick to all Bolt owners groins, that resale just dropped. Will it be 2 grand or 10 grand, we don’t know yet. But it’s still going to hurt.
You’ve announced more departures today than Delta.
I just heard they’ve called an emergency meeting at the RenCen because they’ve read your comments….
Seems you do care about the newest thing.. I say that because you said you’ve bought “25 new” GM vehicles in the past 40 years…
I’m not sure why I would be happy with a car one day and find out they stopped making it and now I can’t stand it the next. In between which vin. should they have made the announcement. At least you didn’t have them drop the price by $20,000 two weeks after you bought it like Tesla did, but then, when is there a good time to stop making them or dropping the price.
What I would like to know is how did you feel about the car before it happened. If you are like me, I have enjoyed not having to go into a gas station and spending I don’t know how much. When all I do is plugin at night and when I get up in the morning If not full almost full charge. I am retired and have had the Nissan Leaf for over three years and have never had to pay at an EV station. Now I know this isn’t usual, but it is nice to know when we get home from wherever we went, that we don’t have to stop and fill up just plugin.
I will bet after it gets farther away from the announcement you will stop feeling bad about it. You were able to get one of the cheapest and pretty well made EVs and it you take care of it and don’t fast charge all the time 5 or more years down the road after seeing how much you saved you won’t be feeling bad.
We have had our Leaf for 3 years and got it used. WE have only used the charger that came with it and now it originally had 150 miles of range. After two owners and 5 years 22,000 miles on the OD we still have a range of 150 or more. So, yours having 259 miles of range and if not force feeding the battery to often you should have a pretty good return on the vehicle when you sell it.
Right now, I’m thinking about getting one 259 miles of range is almost too good to let go.
Kind of strong reaction to the announcement of the end of 7 year old model. That’s sort of a typical lifespan for a vehicle model.
Is Chevy planning on replacing the Bolt with an Ultium Based Small SUV below the Equinox? I sure hope so.
It was reported on this site early last year that GM was planning for a new $25,000 EV slotted below the Equinox.
“The vehicle is so ugly.” Not sure who would want to drive it. I thought it was a ‘guy thing’ but asked my wife what she thought and she said it was ugly not me.
Toyota makes big money selling ugly.
I’m so embarrassed driving my “ugly” 2023 EUV Premier, especially when I’m driving next to dented pickup trucks, behind cars with paint that looks like it’s been splashed with battery acid and along side of pedestrians, 73% of whom are overweight or obese, the latter now at over 40% of the US population. Sir, there are an infinity of things and people uglier than the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV.
At least Biden respects our constitution and democracy! Only a dumb person would have done what Trump did when he left office!
So Biden stating that he wants to eliminate I.C.E vehicles and thereby force EVs down all of our throats is respecting democracy and people’s choice? Are you kidding me? If he and others want to buy Evs, that’s their choice, but don’t try to force me to buy one by taking away my choice to buy something else!
The Bolt EUV looks pretty good, only saw one in the wild, but the rear looks nicer than the Bolt.
It’s kind of a little stretch model and looks a little better than the straight Bolt. See one in red and they look really good.
Uncalled for comment. The Bolt looks like a toaster which in a way it is after catching fire so often.
I’ve yet to see any Bolt on the road in my area. It’s a big fail. My wife is 119lbs by the way and very fit.
Apparently, Triphorn hasn’t looked at any
of the Toyota or other foreign entries!
There are nicer looking electric vehicles out there Bob. Not interested in ANY of them to be honest,
Yes the Bolt is on a dated architecture and a step behind without Ultium power, but at least it was accessible to a buyer that was leaning to EV and wouldn’t otherwise consider GM products. This change will make sense to most only if they promptly announce new similar products that slot in under the Equinox EV, but of course if those were in the pipeline, they should have announced them first before the inevitable, “wtf is GM thinking?” public relations problem.
GM’s not in it for overall market share, just profits. Keeping the stock price trending upward takes priority over offering a product that’s affordable and offers a slim margin..and eats up production capacity that gets in the way of building higher-margin EV trucks. Just like transitioning to a Google infotainment ecosystem allows them to offer a ‘premium experience’ (that they expect consumers will [eventually] justify paying for – OnStar revisited?), focusing on more expensive vehicles makes it easier to generate profit.
At this rate, we’re going to be burning a lot of gas before a lot of people can afford to transition away from it. It seems the middle class continues to shrink.
GM’s CFO on their earnings call just bragged about their AVERAGE transaction price now being over $50,000 and he gave no indication they’re going to slow down. In fact, quite the contrary.
GM isn’t targeting the “middle class” anymore.
The middle class has been shrinking for a very long time. Parallels the decline in union representation for blue-collar jobs. Both have been shrinking since the ’70s.
They dont want middle-class anymore, just poor and rich.
Spot on!
Bolt EUV starts at like $29k, the equinox EV is said to start “around” $30k.
So, not a huge jump, in price. And just like Bolt, I suspect overtime the equinox may drop in price and/or they introduce new models slotted under it.
Just because your home builder quits building the house plan you bought 6 months ago or your model of central A/C is no longer rated high enough to meet code or the closest Walmart to you closes its doors, do you burn down your home, quit cooling and heating your home or vow to never shop at any Walmart ever again? If you like your Bolt, consider yourself fortunate that you got one before it was too late. If you don’t like your Bolt, why do you still own it? My 2023 EUV Premier is as nice NOW as when I went out to my garage 10 minutes ago. I went through the same thing when the end of the Volt was announced shortly after I bought a new 2018 in early 2019. And, anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock over the past year would have been deaf and blind to not know that the Ultium platform was going to replace its forerunner (no Toyota 4Runner pun intended). However, please feel free to buy a Communist Chinese subsidized Tesla.
Right on! As a famous actor once said in one of his movie lines: “You adapt. You improvise. You overcome”. Life goes on…
‘Communist Chinese subsidized Tesla’ ?? Apparently its awesome when GM makes cars in China and sells them in the US, while every Tesla sold in the US was made in the US with the most American content, period. How is Tesla subsidized by China – the government handicaps Tesla in order to pave the way for BYD. They won’t let Tesla add capacity at its lone factory (GM has multiple factories) or build another one. Whats going on in China right now is the beginning of the end for most Western legacy auto. All of them gave away manufacturing secrets to the Chinese for short term profits while Chinese automakers improved and were encouraged by the government to move into BEVs. BYD and others began to produce solid BEVs with better tech than legacy automakers and began to dominate the BEV space. Then the government enacted a strict emissions mandate taking effect July 1st which primarily impacts legacy automakers that figured they could make the soon to be illegal for sale ICE cars up until July, but consumers aren’t buying these cars. Millions won’t sell, while those that do are generally through an auction for a loss. GM lost almost a quarter of its sales in Q1 while every other OEM lost double digit sales as well (China is GMs largest market, not Teslas). Expect Q2 to be even worse as consumers hold out even longer as they know these cars will be worthless after July 1. BYD also surpassed VW (who was #1 since the 80’s) as the new sales leader in China. Like GM, VW derives most of its profits from China and it will continue to be eroded rapidly. China got what they wanted from legacy auto and is now poised to destroy the last remnants of Western manufacturing dominance. The worldwide BEV push will only increase the rate of legacy auto’s demise as the vast majority of all battery capacity lies in China and they provide batteries to Chinese OEMs at a much lower cost than US, EU and Japanese based automakers. GMs reliance on China is way more precarious than Teslas. I get that you hate Tesla/Elon, but don’t let the facts get in the way of your narrative.
So I have to ask what else does GM have up its sleeve? This leaves them without a subcompact or compact EV. (Don’t try to tell me the Equinox fills the gap, because no matter how much they want to pitch it as a compact, it’s seven inches longer than they already large-ish gas version and is based on the same mid-size platform as the Blazer and at only an inch shorter than the Blazer and just as wide it absolutely qualifies as a mid-size vehicle). Is ToyotaMazBaru to be given a US monopoly on small cars? Oh, I guess I mustn’t forget HyundaiKia or Nissan.
Let’s hope they have a surprise not just in mind but ready to go.
Isn’t GM and Honda working on a joint small BEV skateboard?
Maybe that vehicle will be called Bolt
GM and Honda working on a joint small BEV? All the more reason why I should walk away from GM and never look back. Selling their soul to the enemy.
Not a fan of collaboration, eh?
Not when it’s a Japanese company.
Reading all the comments and most seem to think this is no big deal. No, this one thing isn’t. But it’s not just this one thing. GM kills every Buick sedan. GM kills every Chevy sedan except the Malibu but let’s it starve and wither on the vine while every other similar brand updates their cars. GM cuts most Cadillac sedans and gives little attention to the CT4/5. GM takes away any lower priced entry level vehicles in order to make room for yet another CUV with a starting price well over 20 grand. In the meantime, GM forces SUV/CUV and/or trucks on everyone. Buick is only that and Cadillac might as well be only SUV. GM spends how many millions (maybe billions) bringing Hummer back after it died the first time and for good reason. Bottom line is that unless you want a truck or SUV, GM is not for you. They are fine with telling those like me who want lower priced cars and now entry level EV’s to take a hike.
About resale value: First for the idiots who come on here pushing Toyota. When the brands/companies set their own residual values, of course they can show a higher resale. But you don’t figure resale from MSRP, but from the actual transaction price. Huge difference and if I have to explain that to you, then it’s not worth my time. But when it comes to resale value of the Bolt now, you must take into account the fact that the majority of buyers are still afraid of EV’s. Many people will now look at used Bolts and say no thanks, they don’t make them any more. Or, they will say sure, but only if they can steal it for a very low price. The second GM announced they would kill the Bolt, every single person driving one just lost money. Only time will tell how much and/or how badly, but we lost. And in the meantime, GM is more than happy to tell us (their “valued” customers) that we need to look at the Equinox or Blazer EV or worse yet the nasty Silverado EV. And if you think that the Bolt values will become stable, you are wrong unless you consider a much lower value as stable.
I’m at the point where I don’t give a sh*t where the Volvo and Polestar and Tesla’s are made or where the money goes to. I’ll buy my next vehicle from one of them just to give GM the middle finger. I’m done with them.
You are correct. New GM is repeating old mistakes. Then they will ask for bailout again when there is a downturn in the economy and people don’t buy trucks anymore.
They won’t get another bailout. They were the world’s biggest automaker in 2008; they truly were “too big to fail”. So many suppliers in the Midwest alone were riding on GM’s solvency; GM collapse would have triggered an unemployment crisis across an entire region of the US. But if they persist with appealing to a narrower and narrower audience like they’re doing, they’ll have decisively shrunken from “too big to fail” to “too small to matter.”
GM can just ask China for the next bailout.
Except that along with the Bolt demise announcement, GM also communicated they’d be beating prior financial projections as well… so there’s that.
Enjoy your Bolt, they are neat and I know people that have them as their dailies to preserve their Corvettes or exotics. No need to leave – have you seen the Blazer EV, Blazer SS EV, Equinox EV’s?
TNM: I have actually seen the EV Equinox and Blazer in person at a ride and drive event for the Bolt last fall.
Those SUV/CUV’s may be what you want, but they are absolutely not what I want. It’s bad enough that Chevy only made the Bolt in the hatch form and with the black plastic all around it in an attempt to make it look even more CUV like.
There is a need to leave. GM cares not about me or what I want. They care less about what the other +/- 3 million sedan buyers from last year want. All GM wants is everyone in some type of SUV or truck with a price tag of $50 grand or more. Thanks, but no thanks. I’m out.
Ha. This isn’t about me. I have two pickups and a ZL1 Convertible. It’s you going off the deep end.
All GM “wants” is to be the best in every market it competes in and be fiscally responsible to its shareholders. They’re not out to mess with you.
How is the Bolt not a little cross over too?
There is even an EUV version, the U I presume, is for Utility?
MrR: I don’t have the EUV and for a reason. I went with the base Bolt EV for a specific reason. So maybe you can (or GM can) split that hair and call the EUV a crossover. I’m sure they do because it’s the “in thing” and popular.
But my Bolt EV is no more an SUV or crossover than a Honda Fit, or Nissan Versa hatch, or the old Sonic hatch, or a Toyota Prius C, or a Mitsubishi Mirage hatch. Just because GM was being overly cheap and didn’t want to paint the bottom parts of the Bolt doesn’t make it an SUV. It just makes them and the car more cheap.
The outgoing Bolt has a vehicle height several inches higher than a Mirage hatch, 63.4 vs 59.4, it also has a height higher than the new 2024 Trax, 63.4 vs 61.4.
I tried to find comparable specs for a new Honda Fit but then I realized that has been out of production for 3 years….
The Bolt is also taller than the last Sonic hatch as well, 63.4 vs 59.7.
Im pretty sure the equinox ev will pick off where the bolt left off so i dont really see the big deal
For driving in a crowded urban area, the Bolt is much easier to manage. The Equinox might as well be a Suburban, or at least a Tahoe.
Lurch: You are very correct. One of the reasons why I purchased my Bolt EV (not EUV) if because of the smaller size. Where I live with very high traffic and difficult parking, my Bolt is still a hair on the too big side. The Spark was just a little too small. What would be perfect would be my Bolt but about 5 inches shorter.
So many think that it’s no big deal if they Equinox EV is a little bigger (over a foot larger!!). And maybe these people live in rural areas with tons of space and parking as far as the eye can see. However, my Bolt EV can fit in many spaces when dropping the kids off to school or parking at work where even the Bolt EUV would not work.
camaro kyle: Not even close. Nice try.
Good luck with that, I seriously doubt that Silverado EV sales will match Bolt sales.
Eric Nast – Go buy a Tesla if you think GM is too high in price.
LOL…the same Tesla that’s already priced higher than what the Equinox EV will start at? …with pleather seats and an interior that belongs in an $20,000 car, never mind the hit-and-miss exterior quality…no thanks! Everyone and their dog already has one (in a limited number of colors) so it also feels like the car of choice for EV shoppers with no individuality. I don’t care where it’s built, how good the battery tech is, or about the charging network – count me out!
Well, I’m on my second BOLT – still waiting for its battery to be ALLOWED to be installed…Bought mine 6/2021 but dealership says the battery is here, but they all not allowed to install them in 2022 model years yet… No clue why.
GM has run the bolt ev/euv from 2017 to 2023 model years so that’s par for the course…
But if its anything like the LYRIQ release then they will end up with ZERO ELECTRICS available for sale for a long time.
Well, I’m on my second BOLT – still waiting for its battery to be ALLOWED to be installed…Bought mine 6/2021 but dealership says the battery is here, but they all not allowed to install them in 2022 model years yet… No clue why.
GM has run the bolt ev/euv from 2017 to 2023 model years so that’s par for the course…
But if its anything like the LYRIQ release then they will end up with ZERO ELECTRICS available for sale for a long time.
Of course the cheap Equinox ev wont be as inexpensive at $30,000. Another year for delivery?
Mary Barra promised to make EV’s affordable for all. The Bolt was the most affordable EV on the market, and it had decent range for an EV. But in the long run, it’s all about making money and minimizing costs. The Bolt had battery quality issues, and GM wants to cut loose of promoting a problematic product. People in North America want only crossovers and SUV’s even at the higher price points. So GM will follow the market demand and make their EV’s from crossovers and SUV’s and make more money selling them than continuing to make a relatively affordable EV. That will price the budget minded vehicle buyer looking at an affordable EV out of the new EV vehicle market. And no matter how hard the legacy vehicle manufacturers try, when it comes to EV’s, there’s Tesla, and then there’s everyone else regarding EV sales figures.
joseph p: Not trying to be difficult, but I’m going to add to your statement with some facts.
1. Bolt most affordable EV on market? True.
2. Decent range? Beyond true.
3. Bolt had battery issues? Overall, wrong. Some did and it was the battery supplier who footed the bill, not GM.
4. GM wants to cut loose problematic product: So they will cancel every vehicle they sell?
5. People in NA “want only crossovers and SUV’s”? Really? So the /- 3 million buyers of sedans last year were?
6. GM will price budget buyers out of the market? Very true.
7. Tesla vs. everyone else? Yup. Because of absolute stupid moves from GM like killing the Bolt.
Try holding your breath until GM un-cancels the Bolt, and see if that will work.
No need. I may like my Bolt, but that matters not. I like a lot of different cars and there’s many for me to choose from. GM can do whatever they want from now on as it won’t affect me when I’m driving my next car from Tesla or Volvo brands.
Wow, and who in the world thinks continuing this nonsense is making sense. Tree huggers, rich people, investors of the ev and climate change scam and almost forgot all those politicians that are forcing esg down everyone’s throats, cause their heavily invested in the whole darn thing. Save the planet my arse.
2023-Q1 was the best quarter with Bolt (EV/EUV) selling nearly 20K units.
GM kills them.
This is what they did to Volt which had stellar 53 mile / 85 km electric range followed by great
petrol mileage.
This is what they did to EV1 leaseholders who wanted to buy the car after their lease ended.
If petrol version of Chevy Equinox starts at $27K, then electric version will be well over $35K.
Are they really going to sell them at 20K units / quarter.
Lets see.
EV1 lessors knew it was a closed end lease with no buy out option from the start.
Though I’m sure some of them would have loved to buy a $250,000/per unit electric car at at whatever they thought it was worth at the end of the lease.
If you kept up with the news of GM new EVs you would have known that the Lake Orion plant was scheduled to be changed to produce the Chevy Silverado and that the Bolt would come to an end. This was very public knowledge. We also knew that the new batteries Ultium were the newest product and the Bolt batteries would not be made in the future.
I have a 2022 EUV and got it on a swap of a 2021 after the battery recall. I am so happy with the new Bolt EUV styling, ride, comfort and overall road handling all for my original out the door price of $25000 (with MI tax of $2,000) . The Bolt is saving me about $1200 a year in fuel and over 10 years will be $12,000, almost half the cost of the vehicle.
GM had a huge learning curve with the Bolt and batteries that will lead to better EVs in the future. It is transformational to go from gas to electric and with all the new tech included. Tesla showed it could be done at a profit. GM will be second to Tesla and may catch them some day. Just thing about all that pollutions that will not fill our air. It is just a start but at least there is a road map to clean the air.
I love our Bolt EUV Supreme and it’s really the nicest most modern car we’ve ever driven and our first Chevy after 4pm years of Hondas. I think it’s interesting that so many people are angry to see it discontinued and I have to agree I was a bit shocked because I had to sell myself, my wife and friends and family that I was doing the right thing and then they discontinue it. WTF??? Another jolt with the Bolt was announcing that they are ending CarPlay. Here again WTF??? CarPlay is my universal connection between both my cars Bolt and Honda CRV and my Home. I really hope they listen to consumers who want Siri and Alexa on their ride.
But I will definitely look at the Equinox and the Blazer over the next 3 years of my lease. I LOVE this BOLT EV so I will never go back to ICE. Once you drive and EV other cars seem like relics. GM was also very smart to install my 240 volt charger. Now I’m ready to plug in my next EV.
It’s a bit sad to hear that Chevy Bolt production will be ending, but it’s important to stay informed about industry changes. Electric vehicles are evolving rapidly, and I’m curious to see what Chevy has in store for the future.
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