Chevrolet Bolt EV News

  • 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV

    Today, one analyst seems to think the Chevy Bolt could go gangbusters, Total goes all in on a storage battery maker, and Audi's big bet on electrification (definitely not the other stuff) is all up next. One auto industry analyst seems to think that Chevrolet's Bolt EV could capitalize on the Tesla Model 3's massive demand, but massive wait until 2018 or longer, to the tune of 80,000 cars in the first year. Yeah, all those zeroes are supposed to be there. Nascent luxury brand Genesis has plans for a green future too. The automaker told Automotive News that the range of coming luxury cars...

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    2017 Chevy Bolt EV sales could go as high as 80,000, says analyst

    The question of how many electric cars can be sold in a single year remains a topic of hot debate as the U.S. market awaits the launch of the 200-mile Chevy Bolt EV at the end of this year. The world's best-selling electric car, the Nissan Leaf, had its highest-sales year in the U.S. in 2014, when...

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    Ford CEO Mark Fields confirms 200-mile electric car coming (updated)

    What a difference a week makes. In late April, Ford's director of electrification programs and engineering, Kevin Layden, said the 100-mile range of the 2017 Ford Focus Electric would suffice for most drivers. But then on Ford's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Fields announced that the...

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    Chevy Bolt EV electric car to be GM-Lyft self-driving car testbed

    It's the season of autonomous-car announcements, apparently. This week Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that the Silicon Valley giant would use the Detroit automaker's 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans for its self-driving car research. Now, General Motors has said that the Lyft...

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    Electric-car battery costs: Tesla $190 per kwh for pack, GM $145 for cells

    Lithium-ion cells and the battery packs that hold them are the single most costly part of modern electric cars. And how fast their costs will fall remains the defining factor in making those cars affordable for the mass market. GM made waves last fall when product chief Mark Reuss said the company...

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    Four new (or updated) electric cars coming for 2017

    Among battery electric cars on sale in the U.S., only three vehicles have sold more than 10,000 copies since 2010: the Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model S, and BMW i3. But four new or updated models coming for the 2017 model year may change those equations. The most eagerly awaited new 2017 electric car is...

  • 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV

    Electric-car advocates are often passionate, with memories long enough to remember GM's 2004 destruction of its pioneering fleet of EV1 electric cars. Since then, the company has built and sold two generations of the Chevrolet Volt, with the launch of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV imminent within a year—before Nissan, Tesla, BMW, or any other plug-in pioneer manages to field a 200-mile electric cars below $40,000. Despite that, at least some electric-car owners and fans seem to retain a considerable undercurrent of skepticism about Detroit's largest automaker and its intentions. DON'T...

  • 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV pre-production vehicles at Orion Township Assembly Plant, March 2016
    Tesla Model 3 depositors vs Chevy Bolt EV: sea change or double standard?

    More than 325,000 potential buyers have put down $1,000 apiece for a Tesla Model 3 electric car that they won't get for two years, if not considerably longer than that. Which must frustrate the electrification team at General Motors deeply. The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV with more than 200 miles of...

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    2017 Chevy Bolt EV pre-production cars now being built (video)

    There are just nine days to go before the much-hyped Tesla Model 3 is unveiled to the world. But it appears that the makers of a different affordable 200-mile electric car wanted to point out that their car will actually precede the Model 3 into production by at least a year. Chevy said today that...

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    Small-town Indiana Chevy dealer is big on electric cars

    It's often said that franchised auto dealers are one of the bigger impediments to sales of plug-in electric cars. Vehicles with plugs require more explanation, the financial calculations are often more complicated, and home and public charging stations add a further layer of complication...

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    Chevy Bolt EV To Be Sold In Europe As Opel Ampera-E Electric Car

    The Opel Ampera-e should be mechanically identical to the Chevrolet Bolt EV.

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    Bolt EV Powertrain: How Did GM And LG Collaborate On Design, Production?

    In last fall's runup to the launch of the production 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV 200-mile electric car, GM discussed working together with Korean corporate giant LG on the Bolt's development. Mark Reuss, GM’s head of global product development said in October that the company's partnership with LG...

  • 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV

    The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV may be the most eagerly awaited electric car since the original Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt (plus everything Tesla). Its claimed 200-mile range and pre-incentive price of $37,500 will make it unique if it launches this December as expected. And there's been much press coverage of whether or not the Bolt EV will compete with the Tesla Model 3--and what that will mean if so. DON'T MISS: Tesla A 'Fringe Brand': Former GM Product Czar Bob Lutz: Video (Sep 2014) A mass-market, apple-pie brand like Chevy doesn't appear to be a natural competitor for a tech-forward luxury...

  • Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn with GM's Larry Nitz at 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV debut  [photo: Gary Lieber]
    Carlos Ghosn's Face Shows Nissan's Reaction To 2017 Chevy Bolt EV

    Carlos Ghosn has never really been known as a man with frequent warm and ready smiles for all comers. Under most circumstances, the man who runs not only global automaker Nissan but the Franco-Japanese Renault-Nissan Alliance displays a serious, thoughtful countenance. But as he inspected the 2017...

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    Renault-Nissan CEO Ghosn Welcomes Bolt EV, More Electric-Car Competitors

    Nissan embraces more electric-car competition.

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    GM Won't Fund CCS Fast-Charging Sites For 2017 Chevy Bolt EV

    The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV has received largely positive reviews for the production version unveiled last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And as the first affordable 200-mile electric car, expected to go on sale before the end of this year, it will likely reset consumer...

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    2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV Specs Released: Battery Pack, Motor Power, And More

    The production version of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV 200-mile electric car made its auto-show debut this morning in Detroit, after last week's global unveiling at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But while the car was familiar, Chevy provided some eagerly sought information on the car's...

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    2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Production Electric Car Unveiled At CES

    Chevrolet unveiled the Bolt electric vehicle as a concept car at last year's Detroit Auto Show and today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas it showed the production version. Most notably, the car, officially called the Bolt EV, promises more than 200 miles of range on a full charge...

  • Engineering development version of Chevrolet Bolt EV, Las Vegas, Jan 2016

    If the production version of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV lives up to the engineering development vehicles we saw and drove today, it will debut a new world of affordable, 200-mile electric cars that should be desirable to a broad mass market. Back in 2010, Chevy let journalists drive "integration vehicles" built to test the latest versions of software in the upcoming Volt range-extended electric car. GM's Bolt EV team is clearly as confident in their car as the Volt team was back then, so that's what we got to drive and ride in. DON'T MISS: 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Production Car Spied Before...

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    2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Production Car Spied Before 2016 CES Reveal

    The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will appear in production-ready form at CES, a new report says.

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    2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV: Production Version To Appear At CES

    The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV will appear in production-ready form at CES, a new report says.

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    2017 Chevy Bolt EV Development: GM, LG Chem Reveal Deep Partnership

    When General Motors CEO Mary Barra unveiled the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV concept last January at the Detroit Auto Show, the 200-mile electric car was a shock to the industry. But equally startling was the launch schedule that emerged over the following months: The Bolt EV is to go into production...

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    U.K. To Miss Out On 200-Mile Chevy Bolt EV, GM's 'Electric Car For Everyone'?

    North American buyers are eagerly anticipating the debut late next year of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, a 200-mile subcompact electric car promised to sell for $37,500 before incentives. That same car will also likely be sold in Europe, under GM's German Opel nameplate--effectively replacing the...

  • GM CEO Mary Barra and Chevy Bolt EV electric car image at 2016 Chevrolet Cruze launch, Jun 2015
    GM Targets Tesla With 200-Mile Bolt EV Mantra: 'For Regular People, Not Elites'

    If we heard it once, we heard it a dozen times this week. The upcoming Chevrolet Bolt EV 200-mile electric car is "for regular people, not for the elites." You'd almost think that General Motors had adopted the "1 Percent" meme that appears to be the lasting legacy of Occupy Wall Street. DON'T...

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