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Updated due to Thule now listing the fit for the Bolt Premier with flush rails on its US web site.

Bolts sold in the US have daytime running lights. When Canada made the DRL requirement, GM put DRLs in cars for the US market as well, probably to simplify manufacturing and import/export issues. Although some of the early GM DRLs were very bad ones (high beams, turn signals, or separate...

Differences in regulatory requirements make it difficult to just ship excess already-built new car inventory to another country for sale. The cars would have to be modified to meet the regulatory requirements of the destination country. In addition, option and feature configurations may not...

I got the interruption notice one night when the weather was very warm. I went to the garage and found the car running its cooling fans. It did resume charging later and finished charging by next morning.

A charge good for 100,000 miles may be rather expensive, though.

1. Using 120V 15A circuits (which the included EVSE will charge at 8A or 12A) will give you about 1 to 1.4 kW, so you are looking at days to fill a Bolt's 60 kWh battery from empty. Best to get a 240V 40A circuit put in your cottage so that you can put a 7 kW EVSE in it to fill a Bolt...

Alternatively, for your roof box, you may want to see if it is possible to shim the rear crossbar where the roof box clamps to it, so that the roof box rides level even though the rear crossbar is lower. However, the amount of shimming that can be done may be limited by whether the roof box...

Car companies have been surprised by oil price changes causing the product mix that they had planned for over the past several years to be mismatched to what buyers want to buy. However, that is a harder problem than merely noticing that regional variations in buyer demand are different from...

Since you fabricated your own "towers" for the roof crossbars, would it make sense to remake them so that the front ones are shorter than the rear ones, so that the two crossbars are at the same height, allowing you to carry roof boxes and other longer loads level instead of tipping up? (The...

Note that older mechanical shift levers had their issues. There used to be occasional recalls where problems in the mechanical shift levers (possibly worsened by wear over time/use) meant that when the indicator was in park, it was actually not in park. The tendency of many drivers not to use...

Note that push button shifters and shifters in places other than the center console or steering column have been tried in the past. http://www.classiccarstodayonline.com/2013/05/26/alternate-gear-shift-levers-through-the-years/

Looks like they intentionally used different actions for R and D (pull) versus P and N (push) to make it less likely to accidentally choose the incorrect setting. The ergonomic / safety question was the subject of an earlier Consumer Reports web page...

The Tesla Model S has provision for roof rack installation, but only with the panoramic roof option.

What color was each car? If you had a black i3 and a white Bolt, that may affect the comparison.

This is not the OEM Bolt tire. There are three different versions of the Michelin Energy Saver A/S 215/50/17: 90V generic (the one you found), currently $149.97 at Tire Rack 91H Volt OEM, currently $141.97 at Tire Rack 91H Bolt OEM, currently $121.97 (special) at Tire Rack Be careful when...

No custom fit mats for the Bolt from Weathertech yet; only trim-to-fit mats. http://www.weathertech.com/chevrolet/2017/bolt-ev/ Husky also sells rubber mats for cars, but they also do not have a set specifically for the Bolt. https://www.huskyliners.com/

Got home one hot day and plugged in the car for L2 charging. Got phone notifications about charging interruptions. Went to the garage and heard the car's fans running.

Note that the Bolt's electronic parking brake switch is also mounted on the center console, and the lever action (pull up to turn on the parking brake, push down to release it) mimics the traditional hand operated parking brake lever commonly found on the center console. However, the shifter...

Column shifters were used on manual transmission cars as well (e.g. "three on the tree"): Possibly, although if a car was offered with both manual and automatic transmissions, it may have required fewer unique parts when both shifters were in the same location. When front bench seats went...

On IIHS web site: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/vehicle/v/chevrolet/bolt-4-door-hatchback/2017 The main complaint was excessive glare from the headlamps. They also said that the LATCH anchors were too deep in the seat and required too much force to attach a child seat to. The front crash...