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https://electrek.co/2017/01/19/chevy-bolt-ev-owner-claims-crashed-into-his-garage/ I make no assertions about whether this means anything, is fake news, whatever. Just posting an article that might interest Bolt owners.

The spec in question is normally called the H-Point. Below is C&D referring to it in a review. For comparison, my wife's Soul has an H-Point of 24, and my very small pickup truck 28. It's a major pet peeve of mine that car manufacturers generally don't publish H-Points in their online spec...

Thanks for the honest, first-person review. I always like hearing both positive and negative reviews. And as many as possible. And I'll remember them when I do my own test drive, because a five minute test drive is not enough time to discover all the rights and wrongs about a car. But if...

I like that metaphor. Good one.

https://electrek.co/2016/12/20/chevy-bolt-ev-profit-subsidize-gas-guzzling-cars-tesla-model-3-jp-morgan/ Another voice in the matter. Note that this data comes right from a day with the GM CFO. Personally, I don't care if they're making or losing money. I just care whether or not I can actually...

https://electrek.co/2016/12/20/chevy-bolt-ev-profit-subsidize-gas-guzzling-cars-tesla-model-3-jp-morgan/ Above is another analyst weighing in after spending a day with GM's CFO. I don't care about the loaded term "compliance car" - I don't have a dog in that fight. I'm just interested in...

"Cost" is a really tricky thing. For example, consider the Airbus A380 super-jumbo aircraft. You have program development costs and aricraft unit costs. The development costs were humongous ($25 billion). Almost a decade after introduction, the actual unit costs per aircraft are only just now...

Rumor has it these are the some of major players' current positions... Tesla: We will sell and produce as many Model 3 cars as possible (hundreds of thousands per year) and make money. Oh, and we have reservations for 400,000+ already. Sure we have a long history of missing targets. But it'll...

Going back to my original intent with this thread, which was "will I be able to buy a Bolt in early 2017 at my local CT Chevy dealer?"... Here is the latest from GM, quoted at the delivery of the first three Bolts in CA. "Bolt EVs are currently in transit to California and Oregon markets and...

If you look at the photos in that delivery article, you'll notice a bunch of Bolts parked in front of the dealership. So I assume it's not three deliveries, but more like a dozen or more. I'm just guessing these are the three nice people who agreed to be unpaid publicity shills for GM.

That earlier cars are bayed while later cars are shipping might actually make sense. I'm totally speculating, but if they found a problem in the early production runs, they'll park them until they have time and parts to fix the problem (which could be simple or complicated). But if the fix was...

I sure wish I could edit the topic title to ask "will the Bolt ever be sold in large numbers outside CA", thereby removing all the semi-religious battles over the term "compliance car", which was not the original intent of this thread.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/gm-s-ready-to-lose-9-000-a-pop-and-chase-the-electric-car-boom This Bloomberg article clarifies it a bit for me. They don't pick on the Bolt, and explain why it makes sense to build and sell them (and other manufacturers' EVs) at a loss (if...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2016/11/30/gm-zev/94660092/

The good news is that seemingly every auto maker on the planet is reading the tea leaves and planning Bolt-equivalent or better battery EVs in the next few years. You either disrupt or get disrupted. Even the fuel cell gods are finally caving and going battery. Meaning if GM doesn't sell the...

When I first posted this question, I didn't realize "compliance car" was such a loaded term. I'm just a guy who sat in a Bolt at an auto show, really liked it a lot, and wanted to buy one soon in CT. Then I immediately read some new stories that made me wonder if I was ever going to get to buy a...

I saw it Friday at the CT Auto show and really like it too. The lady showing it was from FLA, and she had the same response as me - she didn't expect to like it as much as she did. It's better in person than in pics. She said she's buying one as soon as they arrive in FLA. My main negative was...

https://electrek.co/2016/11/18/gm-chevy-bolt-ev-nationwide-launch-cancel/ One day after seeing the Bolt in person at the CT Auto Show and liking it, I read this disappointing news. Well, I guess you can't blame somebody for not wanting to sell affordable EVs at a loss. Here's hoping the...

Sat in a very pretty (I was shocked) red Bolt today at the CT Auto Show. I went to the show appreciating the specs, but expecting a real dog of a car. I was shocked to find myself responding really positively to the car. I had a chat with a very pleasant Chevy rep from Florida. She said she had...