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This is very depressing. I always assumed Tesla's Supercharging network was funded by investors and not operating profits (at least until Tesla becomes profitable--whenever that may be.) But I at least assumed EVGo was an actual "free market" investment that pointed to at least the slim...

You should research the "Monterey Amendments" to the California water laws if you want to see the old boys network at work. Nothing like giving public water from the aqueduct to a private water company in Kern County . . .

It's pretty easy to keep the Bolt within the Volt's SOC range by using something like the Juicebox, which you can program when to start its charge. I vary the hours I charge each night to do just that. Just as I don't add 1.86 in gas each day to keep my ICE "topped up", I don't plug my Bolt in...

We don't know for sure. But we're sure not operating in total ignorance either. My Volt has 65k on the battery and still delivers 10.4 kWh, which is what it did when new. Volt engineers pegged End of Life at 20% degradation, which in a hot climate may occur in 11 years and in a cold climate...

I guess there's some confusion. The issue is what's the purpose of the L3 charger. If everyone has a 240 circuit in their garage then it must be for inter-city and inter-state travel. If apartment, cheap homeowners or condo dwellers are getting into the game then over utilized L3 stations will...

NRG is a pretty big company. Let's not pretend otherwise. This entire debate would be settled if they would simply up their installations from 2 to 4. I can live with 50 kWh charging. But they need to up their game. And for occasional inter-city travel I'll pay a premium to fund more chargers.

Yes, Bridgeport. No charge to charge can often mean "no place to charge" for those doing inter-city travel. But the no charge program only lasts 2 years. I like EVGo. But their habit of placing stations near malls and grocery stores means you do get small battery locals using a scarce resource...

I like the 30 minute turn off feature. It prevents the local small battery "charger lice" from hogging a charger and making interstate and intercity travel much more inconvenient for people who are replacing their ICE vehicles with BEVs. A 30 minute wait is already weird enough. Turning it into...

Not true. There all Volts that are down to 10.3 and lower. So the Volt does not hide anything. But mine is fine with 60k miles on the battery. The question is can you get to 100k with a TRIVIAL 3-6% loss with LG batteries. As I can easily beat EPA numbers by 10% having a degradation of 10% would...

I guess Volt owners are good test subjects. My Volt has about 60k on the battery and I see no degradation. I used to get 10.4 kWh out of the battery and still get 10.4. If you google Teslas on the subject there are a few high mileage Teslas (including one that runs daily from Los Angeles to...

Most so called product deficiencies are simply legitimate design and engineering choices made by the company that the consumer disagrees with based on their personal preference. When someone makes up an entire "list" of grievances and then wants to repeat them over and over again for years on a...

The charge window is not widened. This is a myth that has been discussed for years on the Volt forums and GM engineers have always said so. Batteries in the Volt do fade. Some people get 10.2 or 9.9, etc on 2011 Volts that are old. But it's no where near 10% let alone 40%. Great thermal...

Yes, if but if you're already beating the EPA numbers by 10-20% then you're simply declining back to what you expected when you bought the car. My Volt has 90 thousand miles on it, 50k if which are electric. It is four years old. I'm getting 10.4 to 10.6 kWh out of the battery each day, which is...

It gets out of bounds when you don't realize that it's "pencils down" for the Bolt and all your complaining will not result in tens of millions of dollars in engineering changes being implemented by Chevy. In Detroit cars seem more or less "set" for five years before major changes are...

Oh, come on. A white Bolt (with the interior lighting package) is the closest thing to a Star Trek shuttle craft there is!

Why exclude incentives? Just wait until July 4th weekend or Memorial Day. Right now there are a bunch of Bolts in Southern California for 34k. Subtract my 2k on my GM MasterCard and that's 32k. I do admit you might need to add 750 for DCFC. So perhaps closer to 33k is the reality. But subtract...

You get an LT with DCFC charging for about 32k in Southern California. 10k of your own tax dollars that have been withheld from your W-2 earnings are then used to bring the post-tax cost down to 22k. That's a far cry from your 43,500 price.

Why don't you just get/keep a cheap gas car for that once a week trip? I plan on keeping my Volt so that if there is any doubt, I can just take that car. That of course is dependent on how much minimum California insurance would be on the Volt. If it's only a few hundred dollars a year it's...

For myself I' m waiting to see what the "base" M3 has in terms of features and what the cost of options are. For a lot of people in California who travel the Super Charger network (even if you have to pay) is a nice feature. Also, a lot of people prefer sedans to the small CUV style. If the tax...

I'm waiting until next year so I can see what the M3 turns out to be and what the M3's impact on super charging will be. Will there be long lines that make the supercharging almost unusable on long trips? Who knows. I doubt I can get an M3 with heated seats, XM radio, and wifi hot spot (all of...