Chevrolet Bolt EV News
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The first few Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars were delivered in California's Silicon Valley more than a month ago, marking the start of what will be a nationwide rollout. Electric-car advocates and buyers outside the Golden State are eager to know exactly when the 238-mile electric hatchback will be available for purchase in their areas as well. The answer to that question has proven a bit more complicated than it might seem. DON'T MISS: When can I buy a Chevy Bolt EV electric car? See state-by-state schedule As we learned earlier this week, Chevrolet is staggering the launch of the Bolt EV...
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When can I buy a Chevy Bolt EV electric car? See state-by-state schedule
Last month, the first Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars were sold in California's Silicon Valley. Electric-car advocates and buyers across the U.S. now want to know when they too can expect to take delivery of their 238-mile electric hatchbacks. And as numerous comments and e-mails from readers...
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric car wins North American Car of the Year award
Media days at the Detroit Auto Show always open with the announcement of the year's North American Car and Truck of the Year awards, and this year is no exception. But green-car enthusiasts had a special reason to follow this year's awards, now broken into three categories: car, truck, and utility...
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Woz is getting a Chevy Bolt EV after all; it arrives today
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak bought a Chevrolet Bolt EV to use as his "main car."
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Electric cars lead to carmaker job cuts: new flashpoint?
It takes people to make cars: to lift and install parts, check quality, test-drive them after assembly, and so forth. Automation has eliminated many of the jobs performed by humans a century ago on the Ford Model T line, and made the rest much less physically punishing for line workers. But...
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Woz got a Tesla, not a Chevy Bolt EV: Supercharging may be why
In September, Chevy scored quite a publicity coup for its Bolt EV long-range electric car. The car's chief engineer, Josh Tavel, took a pre-production 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV to show Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computers—universally known as "Woz." He's a big electric car fan, and had...
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Prototype autonomous versions of the Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car will test on public roads in Michigan.
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Chevy Bolt EV will offer AeroVironment charging station
AeroVironment charging stations will be sold through Chevrolet dealers for the Bolt EV.
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Far more Chevy Bolt EVs likely to be sold than compliance requires
General Motors only needs to sell a relatively small number of Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars to satisfy California's zero-emission vehicle mandate.
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First 2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric cars sold today, in California
And now it's real. Just 23 months after GM CEO Mary Barra unveiled the Chevrolet Bolt concept at the Detroit Auto Show, the very first production versions of Chevy's 238-mile electric car to be sold were delivered this morning to eager San Francisco Bay Area buyers. The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will...
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV 10 to 40 percent battery-capacity loss: possible, but unlikely?
When's the last time you sat down and read large parts of an owner's manual for a car? If it's been a few years—or a few decades—you may be surprised how frustrating they are if you're actually searching for specific information. By and large, their indexes are atrocious (often using...
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Thinking of buying a 2017 Chevy Bolt EV? Read the owner's manual!
General Motors issued the owner's manual for the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car.
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Twenty years ago today, the very first GM EV1 electric cars were delivered to 40 lessees in California in a blaze of publicity. Since then, plug-in electric vehicles have seen more than their share of ups and downs. That first EV1 was a high-tech two-seater created specifically to meet California's then-current zero-emission vehicle rules, intended to set the state on a path toward radically lowering vehicle emissions. DON'T MISS: GM loses $9K on each Chevy Bolt EV to become major player in electric cars: report But those ZEV rules were ultimately overturned by the state after automakers...
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GM loses $9K on each Chevy Bolt EV to become major player in electric cars: report
General Motors will lose up to $9,000 on each Chevrolet Bolt EV it sells, reports say.
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Chevrolet Bolt EV: Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2017
Each year, Green Car Reports chooses a new car, or a family of cars, as the best green car introduced in that model year. In 2011, our very first award, we picked the first-ever modern electric car to be sold in high volumes. Six years later, we've picked the spiritual successor to that car, one...
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GM ramps up 2017 Chevy Bolt EV electric-car production; how many can it build?
With anticipation of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV launch growing, General Motors has started to ramp up production of its groundbreaking 200-mile electric car. (It's actually rated by the EPA at 238 miles combined, but it joins a segment of the electric-car market with 200 miles or more of range that...
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Chevy Bolt EV compared to Tesla Model S 60: Motor Trend lays it out
Sometimes reporters and editors will see an article or a section in another outlet and think, "Darn, why didn't we think of that?" This is one of those times. Enthusiast publication Motor Trend had the very clever idea of comparing two electric cars with 60-kilowatt-hour battery packs and more than...
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: video review of 238-mile electric car
From the outside, this car looks like a tall hatchback, not all that remarkable, maybe a bit bigger than some of the smallest cars around. But from the moment you open the door and get behind the wheel, it's clear that this is no ordinary Chevrolet. In fact, it's Chevrolet's first-ever mass-market...
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A very brief article on a single sentence uttered on Tuesday by an executive at Korean battery maker LG Chem has reverberated around electric-car circles for most of this week. The executive was vice president Kang Chang-beom, and he spoke on a conference call for financial analysts on the topic of LG Chem's third-quarter earnings. His comment has assumed outsize importance because it addressed the hot topic of how many Chevrolet Bolt EV electric cars GM can or will sell in the electric car's first year. DON'T MISS: Green Car Reports 2017 Best Car To Buy nominee: Chevy Bolt EV The Bolt EV has...
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Which plug-in electric car will sell best next year? Poll results
Sales of plug-in electric cars were essentially flat in the U.S. last year compared to 2014, and this year isn't necessarily going to be much better. Part of that is due to product cadence: the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S, two of the top-selling cars in previous years, are now relatively old...
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Green Car Reports 2017 Best Car To Buy nominee: Chevy Bolt EV
The announcement of the Chevrolet Bolt concept car came like a thunderclap at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show. After unveiling the 2016 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, General Motors CEO Mary Barra rolled out a bright orange five-door hatchback electric car. It would have 200 or more miles of range, she...
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Chevy Bolt EV allocations: dealer in California gets electric-car update
As its new electric car gets closer to public sale, General Motors has apparently made its first allocations of 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EVs to Chevy dealers. The news comes via a posting on the GM-Volt forum from a southern California dealership. Rick Alpern, the general manager of Keyes Chevrolet in...
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One of these 3 cars will be Green Car Reports' Best Car To Buy 2017
The past year has been one of anticipation among green-car advocates, who've spent many months waiting for certain vehicles to emerge into production. At the start of the year, it was the Tesla Model X luxury electric utility vehicle, built in very low numbers for several months at the end of 2015...
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2017 Chevy Bolt EV review consensus: car is good, range is real
Early reviews of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV are encouraging.
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