General Motors has announced the arrival of the first Chevy Bolt EUV in Argentina, thereby kicking off the company’s electrification strategy in the country. The announcement was made almost simultaneously with the official launch of the zero-emissions crossover in Chile.
The arrival of the Chevy Bolt EUV officially commences the electric vehicle strategy at GM Argentina. The automaker will use the Bolt EUV to streamline the education and technical training processes for its employees with the aim of promoting fully electric mobility in the local market. As such, the Bolt EUV will pave the way for the arrival of other electric Chevrolet vehicles in Argentina during the 2024 calendar year.
“We are very excited to receive our brand’s 100% electric Bolt EUV so that our teams can train on our path towards electromobility in Argentina,” said Commercial Director of GM Argentina, Raúl Mier. “We consider it important to start preparing our value chain and show the benefits that they will offer to customers interested in this type of vehicles,” he added.
In fact, the Chevy Bolt EUV becomes GM’s first fully electric vehicle to enter Argentina in order to carry out product testing, explore the charging infrastructure, plus serve as technical and safety training for Chevrolet personnel as a prelude to the expected arrival of other zero emissions models. Previously, GM had only brought electric vehicles purely for display purposes and auto show presentations in Argentina.
On this occasion, the Chevy Bolt EUV meets a more strategic objective within the forward-looking electric mobility plan, as it will be used to provide training to GM Argentina’s local team of technicians, engineers and specialized mechanics. Unlike Brazil and other countries in the region, GM apparently has no intention of actually marketing (selling) the first-generation Bolt EUV in the Argentine market.
As such, the Chevy Bolt EUV has formally initiated GM’s all-electric strategy in Argentina. The subsidiary is already working to achieve the company’s stated global goal of a world with “zero accidents, zero emissions and zero congestion,” otherwise known as the Triple Zero vision.
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Argentina is in the middle of an economic meltdown. Who is going to clamor to buy a new EV?
“Unlike Brazil and other countries in the region, GM apparently has no intention of actually marketing (selling) the first-generation Bolt EUV in the Argentine market.”
GM has officially stopped making the Bolt EUV for any market, so this statement isn’t necessary.
GM is going to help Argentina with their charging infrastructure, what a joke. Their strategy failed in the US and will fail in Argentina. People in the US aren’t buying into the EV hype so GM needs to find alternative countries to dump their inventory. What a cluster.
One commenter said that Miss Barra changed her mind and the BOLT EUV is still produced… Now the concensus seems to be that the EUV has also been discontinued….
As far as charging is concerned Argentina has older European style receptacles and in newer buildings Australian triangular plugs – which are a version of the receptacles Britain USED TO have.
And 220 volts, 50 hz is the commonly supplied electricity. Presumably a variation of the 120 volt/ 12 ampere charge cord with the NEMA 5-15 attachment plug COULD be used since through the grape vine it is said this will also work on 240 volts, 12 amperes…. Unknown to me is if the common appliance/garage/carport circuit is 10 amperes capacity the 12 ampere loading will pop the circuit. North American GM products have only allowed current selection of 8 or 12 amperes at 110 volts, not 190-250, where the only limitation is the ‘portable wallbox rating’.
It would be nice to think they have taken all the facts in the above paragraph, but with GM lately, all bets are off.. So they get a North American style bolt down there to demonstrate charging, and then the trainer says,
“Well, we can’t actually plug it in – but I can show you what happens with this Video of Charging in Toronto”. Any one have trouble with English Dialogue? Maybe we can view some subtitles in Spanish.
Where will (or were) the Bolts for Argentina assembled?
BOLT(s) for Argentina? You mean you suspect there will be as many as two of them?
I would imagine both came off the line at ORION, MICHIGAN, USA.