General Motors has officially confirmed that the next-generation Chevy Bolt EV will arrive for the 2027 model year. The upcoming second-gen Bolt was originally expected to launch for the 2026 model year. Production is now slated to begin before the end of the 2025 calendar year at the GM Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas.
GM announced the new production timeline as part of a broader $4 billion investment plan set to support both ICE and EV production at three major sites – Orion Assembly in Michigan, Spring Hill Manufacturing in Tennessee, and Fairfax.
“Fairfax remains on track to begin building the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt EV by the end of this year,” GM stated. “GM expects to make new future investments in Fairfax for GM’s next generation of affordable EVs.”
The new Bolt EV will draw heavily from the outgoing Bolt EUV, which offered more rear-seat legroom than the standard Bolt EV hatchback. The second-bolt won’t be a clean-sheet redesign, and will instead ride on the BEV2 platform, the same architecture that underpinned the first generation. That said, the vehicle will incorporate updated GM drive motor technology, as well as switch to LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries rather than the current pouch-style cells.
2023 Chevy Bolt EUV
The 2027 Chevy Bolt EV is also expected to debut styling changes in line with Chevy’s latest EV design language, mirroring the Equinox EV, Blazer EV, and Silverado EV. The cabin will boast a significant overhaul, including new materials, a redesigned steering wheel, and a dual-panel digital display system similar to that found in other recent Chevy models.
2023 Chevy Bolt EUV
Performance details remain under wraps, but the outgoing Bolt’s 200-horsepower motor is likely to be replaced by a newer GM power unit, such as that from the Equinox EV FWD, rated at 213 horsepower and 236 pound-feet of torque. Additionally, the 2027 Bolt EV is set to adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS), enabling it to connect to a broad range of fast-charging stations across North America.
Check out our previous coverage for everything we know and expect from the next-gen Bolt EV, and stay tuned as we bring you all the latest on the upcoming all-electric Chevy.
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I’m still convinced that the idea the new Bolt will be a BEV2 derivative is based on a misinterpretation of GM’s statements that has been repeated ad nauseum, but we’ll see.
This site is the one that used the “[not] an entirely clean-sheet redesign”, not GM. The actual statement from Barra was:
“We will keep the momentum going by delivering a new Bolt…and we will execute it more quickly compared to an all-new program with significantly lower engineering expense and capital investment by updating the vehicle with Ultium and Ultifi technologies and by applying our ‘winning with simplicity’ discipline.”
This could just as easily be talking about how BEV3 being a flexible platform allows them to engineer the successor on that platform (much like the Brightdrop was brought to market in record time). Granted, the use of LFP batteries means that they aren’t using existing cells or modules from the existing BEV2 or BEV3 vehicles (at least from the NA market) but it seems more likely to me they will be using a variant that is largely BEV3 plus a new battery module (possibly similar to the LFP modules they already use in BEV3 vehicles in China).
It’s on-sale date can’t be before 1/1/26 if it’s to be a ’27.
Why not? My 2022 EV wears produced in April of 2021 and sold shortly after.
that was only a single year difference. Can’t sell a 27 in 25 but can in 26.
“Production is now slated to begin before the end of the 2025 calendar year”
On-sale dates can still conform to this if they’re not hitting lots before 2026. Still an odd choice.
The ride quality and brake lights where you expect them better be addressed!
No mention of msrp.
Can you please break out the “EV” news to another email?
Two separate emails, one for ICE vehicle news and one for “EV” related news.
Many of us here couldn’t care less about the “EV” news.
Thanks