Posted on 04/25/2023 11:15:38 AM PDT by CFW
– General Motors plans to stop production of its electric Chevrolet Bolt models by the end of this year, CEO Mary Barra told investors Tuesday when discussing the company’s first-quarter earnings.
The Chevy Bolt EV and EUV, a larger version of the car, make up the vast majority of the company’s electric vehicle sales to date. However, the battery cells in the cars are an older design and chemistry than the automaker’s newer electric vehicles such as the GMC Hummer and Cadillac Lyriq, which utilize GM’s Ultium architecture.
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Bolt average curb weight 3,700 lbs. Quite heavy for a compact car. Not as heavy as Ford’s Mustang Mach-E (almost 5,000 lbs!), but quite porky for its class.
Never mind the sticker price for the Bolt (starting at $27K after the $6K “discount”).
An astute guy I know has predicted that EVs are going to end up like personal computers, where a model that is 3-5 years old is so obsolete that you can’t even give it away.
EVs are a dead-end
They’re converting that production facility to make electric Silverados and Sierras.
I never liked the Chevy Dolt even when it was brand new.
To be re-introduced later as the GM Screw.
disposable cars...
My wife recently replaced her 13 Nissan Murano and she wouldn’t consider a hybrid and said absolutely no way in hell to an EV of any type. She bought a 21 Nissan Kicks with 30K miles on it and has been getting 35-37 mpg and is quite happy with it. She drives about 40 miles to and from work each day and said gas all the way for any of her vehicles.
“Ford’s Mustang Mach-E”
That is one ugly pizza chit
They are not disposable. If you have one and it wears out you will have to pay dearly to get rid of it. The warranty on batteries is now ten years and they will be wearing out in 12 years. Then it will sit in your driveway. The replacement battery will cost 35000 dollars and a car that won’t move will have zero dollars trade in value. A new car will cost 40000 dollars and be 10 years newer. You will have to push the car over a cliff or drop it off in a parking lot somewhere to make it disposable.
“EVs are a dead-end”
Dittoes and Amen. Electrical propulsion of road vehicles, even very heavy cargo transport, is entirely feasible, and has been used successfully for years with Diesel-electric locomotives in the rail transportation industry. But this reliance on batteries is a series of compounding problems which shall not be solved, and such battery-powered EVs will NEVER be more than a niche product.
An on-board electrical generation capability, using some heat source to drive a Stirling-cycle hot air engine (or even a steam engine, we don’t care), which in turn drives a generator that supplies the electrical energy to drive the wheels would appear to be one of the better engineering designs to follow. Even wholesale production of hydrogen by electrolysis of water, from plentiful and cheap nuclear-generated electricity, and the use of hydrogen fuel cells, would make a true electric vehicle much more feasible than the current designs.
But the infrastructure has not yet been built. The current regime in Washington seems never to take this factor into consideration. First BUILD the infrastructure, then make it economically feasible to convert, and the demand of the general population will drive the rest of the market.
And no one will even notice
Good riddance
The Chevy Boot is the model that a company called Gig Cars rents as publicly available transportation. You can pick one up where it sits and rent it with your credit card and recharge it for free at an EvGo charger. The Bolt is cheap as electric cars go. I have to compete with them for chargers when I let my battery get too low.
I saw one about three weeks ago. Somehow I don’t think it’ll have the same appeal to collectors as the 1967 Shelby GT500. If the Mustang II ends up edging it out, that’d be the ultimate indignity.
Those that own a Bolt. Try to buy a new battery replacement in the years ahead. Already very expensive. Imagine years down the rode. The democrats want cars to be rentals.
yup
Nothing they have proposed has.
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