Faster Charging Doesn’t Help As Much As We Think

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:49:28 +0000

If you look around on social media, people have a lot of bad to say about the Chevy Bolt. It charges slower than most EVs these days, and with its charging curve, it’s not uncommon to spend an hour at a charging station. Plus, some people are in the habit … [continued]

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Why My Used Chevy Bolt Is Worth So Much More Than Its Trade-In Value

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:57:47 +0000

GM discontinued the Chevy Bolt EV and EUV at the end of the 2023 model year. During an early 2024 conference call with analysts, GM CEO Mary Barra agreed that environmental benefits of EVs continue to be compelling to the company. She also admitted that GM’s EVs need to be … [continued]

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Chevrolet Nearly Doubles the Share of Its Sales Coming from BEVs

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:57:46 +0000

Chevrolet has added two semi-mass-market electric vehicles to its fleet in the past year, the Chevy Blazer EV and the Chevy Equinox EV. Unfortunately, the brand also took the semi-popular Chevy Bolt off the market. Just looking at these three models, the net effect in the 3rd quarter of 2024 … [continued]

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How I Love My Battery-Electric Chevy Bolt — Let Me Count The Ways

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:48:35 +0000

GM decided it would be best to remove its oh-so-popular Chevy Bolt from production and to focus instead on its Silverado EV and Equinox EV. For a variety of reasons, including loyal customer outcry, that may not have been the best GM corporate decision ever. However, for anyone now looking … [continued]

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Rental Company EV Failure Hertz Our Resale Values

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:47:13 +0000

Recently, I was watching some videos about Equinox EV charging performance and wondered whether it would make a good replacement for my Bolt EUV. Not only could I get more range, but faster charging of 100–150 kW instead of only 55 kW. Considering that I like to do stupid things … [continued]

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More Than 3× As Many Tesla Model Y Sales As Tesla Model 3 Sales In USA In 1st Quarter

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 03:57:24 +0000

Tesla’s just had a tough quarter, including in the United States, but a tough quarter for Tesla would be a stunning, fantabulous success for any other company trying to sell electric vehicles. In the USA, according to data from Cox Automotive and Kelley Blue Book, more than one out of … [continued]

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Bye Bye, Bolt

Credit to Author: Stuart Ungar| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 17:45:22 +0000

After six years, the Chevy Bolt EV and Bolt EUV will soon be retired. While it wasn’t smooth sailing for all of those six years, the Bolt EV was the first mass-market long-range EV for Chevy, and it has some very loyal owners. Early on, there was the minor issue of the car’s seats not […]

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If You’ve Been Saying You’re Waiting For A Good Non-Tesla Electric Car, Now Is The Time!

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:24:36 +0000

I had this article title drafted up a while back. It had just hit me that there were really several highly competitive, highly compelling electric vehicles on the market now — even in the USA — and that it’s now a prime time for mainstream car buyers to start going electric. So, I wrote the […]

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My First EV, Part 2 — How Far Can You Drive In A Chevy Bolt? How Much Will You Pay?

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:48:47 +0000

Following up with the writer’s impressions of his first EV a few weeks later. Article by Mihai Beffa in Cupertino, California.

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US Electric Car Sales Increased 65% In 2022

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:03:21 +0000

Update: According to our calculations, approximately 5.7% of US car sales were fully electric car sales in 2022. That’s up from 3.2% in 2021, 1.7% in 2020, and 1.4% in 2019. Tesla continues to dominate the US electric car sales market, which can make it seem as though not much is changing here. However, the […]

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