The final dealer order cycle, or DOSP, for the 2023 Chevy Bolt EV and 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV has been pushed back yet again, GM Authority has learned. We previously reported that orders for the two all-electric Chevys would end September 28th. Now, however, the final dealer order cycle for the two Bolts has been pushed back to November 2nd, 2023, according to sources familiar with the matter.
It’s unclear at this time if the DOSP pushback will affect the production end date for the 2023 Chevy Bolt EV and 2023 Chevy Bolt EUV. For the moment, production of the two Bolt models is set to end on December 20th, as GM Authority covered before. That said, it’s quite possible that production will now be extended by several weeks, possibly leading into January. Production of the two Bolts was previously expected to end November 7th, 2023, but was later extended by several weeks.
The start of regular production (SORP) for the 2023 Bolt EV and Bolt EUV began in July of the 2022 calendar year. With that in mind, production of the 2023 model-year EVs will boast a lengthy 17-month production run, assuming the current production end date holds at December 20th of 2023. That said, these dates may change for a number of different reasons, including parts supply issues or the ongoing UAW worker strike.
GM has stated that it is aiming to produce 70,000 units of the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV during the course of the 2023 calendar year. The General is currently on track to hit that goal, with roughly 50,000 units sold as of Q3.
As a reminder, the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV both ride on the GM BEV2 platform, with a 65 kWh battery pack providing the juice to a single front-mounted electric motor. Production takes place at the GM Lake Orion plant in Michigan.
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Despite a spectacular 15,835 sales from Bolt EV/EUV in 2023-Q3, GM fell behind Ford in EV sales.
Please note Ford also sells lot of hybrids and some plugin hybrids. So Ford is way ahead in electrification drive.
Its high time, GM extend Bolt into 2024 branding the production from 2024-01-01 as MY-2024.
Later when Ultium based Bolt is available, they can launch it.
GM Authority has provided fine coverage of the Chevy Bolt and Bolt EUV, but no real coverage of the new Equinox EV, which Mary Barra announced at the CES show last January, and provided nice literature and web site. Unfortunately, GM failed to inform their Chevy dealers of the new Equinox EV, and they cannot provide any details, or take any orders.
It the 2024 Equinox EV a Myth or will it become available this fall as promised by GM’s CEO. I have a 2020 Bolt lease that ended in August, which I hope to extend while waiting for a new Equinox EV, but GM leasing says that I can only extend my lease if I have an order # for an new Chevy product, but none of the 8 Chevy dealers I contacted even know that an Equinox EV will be available !
Any ideas – Maybe you can publish some info on the liklihood of seeing and ordering a new 2024 Equinox EV ?
Jim Dunn
Jim: Could you just have your dealer place an “order” for a new Bolt even if that’s not what you are taking? Placing that order should be no problem for the dealer because they will sell it no matter what. It would give you an order number to extend your lease. Then just order your real replacement as soon as they open it up. Just a thought.
But you may have such a long wait for the Equinox EV that you may need to take that new Bolt on a short term lease/purchase and wait for the other one.
The website says the Equinox EV will be in “limited quantities” for one trim in the Fall and full availability will occur in the Spring of 2024. Probably explains why most people aren’t aware of it.
Good point Richard. I’d also say that most (not all, but most) auto sales people are just too lazy to care about what’s going on. Many just don’t care either. It’s just a job for them and not a very good one at that any more. For the 26 years I’ve been working for dealers, I’ve seen this over and again and still see it today where I’m at. Even though I’m not in sales on the floor, I’m in the fleet department and yet I still have most sales people come to me asking product questions because they don’t know and refuse to look it up. Again, just lazy. But for the pay (lack of) they get any more, I don’t really blame them.
GM was too lazy to give dealers info on the new Blazer EV. Flying blind all the way. No idea of what’s in a package. How does one order without knowing what they are ordering.
Midnight Rider: It’s not just GM. Volvo is doing the exact same thing right now with the new EX30 and EX90 coming out. They want the money and deposits to claim they have huge interest, but nobody knows what they are “ordering”. haha. The blind leading the blind.
Chevy Bolt, the car too tough to die.
It’s evident that GM severely misread the tea leaves back in early this year when they announced they were killing off the Bolt. Looks to me like they not only reversed that (bad) decision, but now they are trying to figure out how to keep a good selling EV going till that new one comes out.
Like famlin said above: Just stop production of the 2023 and start a 2024 model run until the new one comes out and call it a 2024.5 or 2025.
Exactly. Frankly, the Bolt is the only EV gm is selling in volume because it’s the only EV they can produce in any real volume. Add to the fact that plug-in EV sales are starting to stagnate at 9% of overall industry sales and inventory is building across board for all manufactures as we’ve moved past the early adopter sales phase.
Ford has a 100 day supply of the Mustang Mach E, Tesla is cutting prices to move inventory that is stacking up and the Koreans are adding incentives on their EV’s . Other manufacturers have acknowledged the slow down as well.
In the meantime hybrid and plug-in hybrids sales are taking off easily outselling plug-in EV’s. Toyota can’t keep their hybrid models in stock once again proving they’re the smartest guys in the room. Meanwhile the genius leadership at gm thought it was a good idea to exit the hybrid business and go all in on plug-in EV’s. They completely misread the interim step (hybrids) on the road to full EV adoption. As with everything at gm, it’s all about cost so they didn’t want to make the investment.
GM did severely misread the tea leaves…just not the ones you’re thinking. GM’s timeline for launching the new line of Chevy Ultium EV’s is all but out the window at this point. I think you will find the decision to carry on a bit longer with Bolt production is an attempt to bridge an ever growing gap between discontinuing the older tech Bolt line and the new Ultium vehicles. The roll out of the Ultium Chevy’s has been put off again and again and again due to many issues the biggest being their inability to build the batteries in any significant quantity. This is further evidenced by the fact they have had to halt Brightdrop production but almost 6 months due to lack of available batteries. GM has spent several years running around touting how they are the leader in EV technology. They have to keep making the Bolt. How can they claim to be such an industry leader if they have No Chevy EV to offer at all?
Just bought a 2023 Chevy Bolt EV last month. Amazing car that GM needs to continue making until the 2025 Bolt Ultium version is ready. Also please tell Mary Barra she needs to retain Apple CarPlay, a key feature many Bolt buyers prefer over Tesla without it.
My Bolt is on order now…expect delivery late November…looking forward to cutting my contribution to oil company profits…..
GM is having technical, engineerineering transitional growing pains and is always delaying fielding these new complex vehicles that pose unprecedented technical and engineering , marketing and sales / servicing challenges. We’re never going to make it to the moon! Go GM!
They still haven’t made mine from Feb, so I doubt the end of production can be in Dec.