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Thats exciting. It's a landmark car for sure. More pics please!

Why do EV people insist on writing this kind of nonsense? It's just ruins the credibility of EV people. Then the public views EV people as "nuts". There is no such thing as a zero maintenance car. Low maintenance. Yes. Zero. No. Things that need to be maintained: tire balance tire...

Nothing wrong with that. I'm the same way, although I do like to test vehicle limits. I'll just do it measuring it along the way. :D

Chevy appears to want this to be a mass market car, not an EV enthusiasts' car. If the manual has don't do this, do this, you must baby the battery, the word will get out and no one will buy the car other than a few enthusiasts, at which point they will be back to square one. They don't want...

How does he control the amount of push?

Wrong. Much time and money was spent on electric powertrain research prior to the decision to bring the Bolt into existence.

We don't know if that phantom $9000 number (which could very well have been made up), is based on amortizing fixed costs over a particular sales volume, or variable costs. You can lose money on a production run, without losing even more money with higher volume. I'll be honest with you. One...

Let's not panic. The car hasn't even shipped yet, and it's not 2017 yet. Any new model starts shipping slowly at first while they work out the production issue.

This is all well and good in BEV Geekland, but the average consumer is never going to put up with this guesswork and preplanning.

The term "compliance car" is a derogatory term used by BEV snobs to make themselves feel better. I would just ignore them. The Bolt is a fantastic car that breaks new ground.

Good article here on battery life. It includes both time, temperature, and cycle factors. Degradation starts the day the battery is built. http://www.electricvehiclewiki.com/Battery_Capacity_Loss

You'll often see this with turbocharged ICE's, too.

There you go. The torque curve for an electric car is set by the engineers, and is not a characteristic of just motor itself other than the upper limit. The torque peak, or plateau does not have to match the horsepower peak. They very easily could set a declining torque curve with the...

Really, What kind of engineer are you? Google is your friend. "electric motor torque curve".

This is a mistake many non-engineers make. They see one graph, and assume all EV's operate this way. They also assume that what they see is a native characteristic of all EVs.

They can't do that with the front drive, twist rear axle Bolt platform. They would need a whole new platform. That's expensive. I think GM would be wise to see how the Model 3 sells, and go from there. They would need to build a car BETTER than the Model 3 to compete, because there is a lot...

I did a fully loaded Bolt, LT, tint coat paint, wheel locks, Infotainment Package, Drive Confidence Package, $5000 down, 15,000 miles, and came up with $389/mo. I also did a Camaro that was just under $40,000, and the lease was $442, so the Bolt lease is better.

Sure, and everyone will just say "It's just a rebadged Bolt." They have tried it. It never works. That's why Cadillac later came up with their own rear drive platforms. The BEV enthusiasts think the public will buy a car just because it is electric. The public couldn't care less about BEVs...

No, they don't support anything. They build cars to meet market and regulatory demands to make money. Cheerleading doesn't sell products. Look at the history of IBM and OS/2 sometime. It's sad that BEV people think they can cheerlead the public into buying BEV's. Nope. People don't part...

No likely to happen. Every time Cadillac does something like that, it fails. The ELR is a recent example. It's too far outside their target market. Now something Model S sized with rear drive, that would be a different story. Michael