Recent content by mrp10000

In agreement with this...and it comes down to compromises. My family had a LEAF and a Bolt, and made this work for awhile. For six months we had a Corolla as a backup for really long trips, which we used about once or twice per month. We just got the Model 3, and the Corolla is history. The...

I drove a LEAF for a year and a half, and almost overnight last fall, lost about 5% of the battery. It must have been the summer weather here in NC...Anyway, I inherited the wife's Bolt (after waiting two years her Model 3 arrived!) which is 14 months old and has 13,500 miles. We generally...

7000 plus miles. No repairs needed (so far) and ready for first tire rotation. Looking forward to comparing the Bolt vs. LEAF in terms of cold weather experience (I know, apples to oranges, but still fun to compare loss of range between the two when the temperature dips)...

Congrats. We bought ours in Cary, NC back in May. We were gonna go to Virginia to buy but found several in Cary and were able to strike a deal. You'll love the car. I hope to inherit the wife's car if she decides to get a Model 3.

Agreed. Most of the trips in our Bolt are short. We charge on Sunday and often go a week, sometimes more before charging. We take it out of Hilltop Reserve to go on round trips that will take us beyond the car's listed range. Even in Hilltop Reserve mode the mid-range estimator shows 220...

Got our Bolt 2 weeks ago, and we are all EV (wife got the Bolt, and I got a LEAF to make up for a Chevy Volt that turned into a lemon, but that's another story), so we are all in. We are really looking forward to our first long trip in the Bolt. Longest commutes so far in the Bolt have a...