The learning curve of predicting driving range going from an ICE to an EV is as great as going from a big truck ICE to a compact ICE. There's just so much variance one has to do the work and the math himself to have any confidence in his expectations. In our northern tier, over the course of the yea...

Too bad there is no sunroof option - a tilted sunroof is a good way to extract warm and/or humid air from the cabin without using fans or a/c and only adds minimal drag. Cars these days are becoming like houses - fully sealed and then needing "air management" JMHO, but I love that the Bol...

It's a great benefit to be able to leave the AC on, lock the Bolt and run a quick errand without the car making a sound and it still be cool upon return. This summer, I did just this. As I was walking away, a big Mercedes sedan pulled in, the engine cooling fan making a roar. A woman got out, told t...

Thanks for sharing. Considering a similar build myself to accommodate a set of older Thule square bars and canoe rack I have on hand. Things I'd do differently: 1. Make the front bar lower, so the box sits level and doesn't have aero lift. 2. Figure an adjustment to tighten the feet outward against ...

Just find a dealer who wants the sale of a Bolt. Dealers swap cars between states every day and routinely handle insanely complicated three-way transactions. If you make a deal with an out-of-state GM dealer, then it's very much easier for them to find the best NY dealer to work out how to get the c...

Yet more evidence life isn't fair. Many of the lease deals reported above are less than half what both the GM website and our local dealer quoted us here in eastern WA. We'd certainly leased instead of bought if $200 a month had been available. At $450 a month net, not so much.

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I was *hugely* disappointed. We're currently driving the KIA Soul EV... *much better ride*! I wouldn't even consider the Bolt unless they fix this problem. :-( Your money, your decision and glad you're happy with your Kia. JMHO, but I drove the Kia Soul EV and there are so many reasons I wouldn't e...

...Place the trans in the "L" mode and drive till you reach maybe 25 mph.... then without taking your foot off the accelerator, just kick the lever into "D" you will feel an oh-so-slight speedup of the vehicle.... that would be enough to tell you that for the same amount of appl...

After some experimentation I mostly only use it for local travel around town w/in 5 miles of my house. I try to avoid driving it on the freeway anymore because of how the way I drive sucks the power out of the battery. Your car, your decision, but I don't understand the logic. Within the generous r...

bluebolt wrote:My next electric vehicle (when the lease is up) will have AWD if at all possible.

Those of us who have to traverse the frozen-ass-end-of-nowhere need AWD and real snow tires. I put Nokian on the Bolt and they're a huge improvement over the OEMs, but it needs AWD.

jack vines