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I find watching the energy consumption for accessories is the best way to make this determination. With summer coming on (with a vengeance) in SoCal, AC on (set to 71°) most of the time, I am seeing about 4-5% of my overall energy consumption going to accessories. So that's maybe a ten mile hit...

My radio sometimes un-mutes at random moments while driving. No obvious pattern. Anybody else?

FYI, this event has been postponed to June due to the forecasts for rain on Sunday,

Direct link to the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/654635147994631/ If you are in the area make your plan to be a part of history! As far as I know, this is the first Bolt event anywhere!

Great! Did you by any chance sign up on one of the Facebook event postings? Trying to keep track of the numbers.

You won’t want to miss this first ever event at Santa Paula Airport, located in the beautiful Santa Clara Valley of Ventura County, within round-trip Bolt EV driving range from much of Southern California. The Bolt-In will be held in conjunction with Santa Paula Airport’s monthly “First Sunday”...

Nobody gets it. Oh well.

Actually, no, because those residuals are a function of the federal tax credits and any other incentives they may be offering at that time. You sign your tax credit of $7500 over to the leasing company, in full. They then use however much of it they feel they need to inflate the residual and...

Sure, and what I am saying besides is the U.S. auto industry is perpetually out of sync with the cost of fuel and unprepared to address shifts in consumer preference. This has happened at least three times that I can remember. If it wasn't for the CAFE standards the industry would be even less...

Actually, no. I've looked at the leasing math from all directions. Leasers are not getting any special deals, though I agree leasers are helping the automakers' bottom lines by signing over their federal tax credit and only getting part of it back.

You kind of make my point for me. The auto industry has been "caught" many times by spikes in gasoline prices, and they always went back to making more land yachts as quickly as they could after the market absorbed the shock. The only force operating in the other direction is government policy...

They will continue to sell all they are making. That's how the industry works. Demand will increase, but that won't mean the prices go up, because so will the supply. The marginal cost of production should also decrease, as should the cost of the battery packs. The auto industry (with the...

The crux of the matter. The civilized world (with now the exception of the U.S.) is taking climate change seriously, and they are taking renewables seriously. They are making them prominent features of their public policies. They clearly won't be part of ours for at least the next four years...

Sort of, except that you as many others seem to believe that lease math is some sort of special magic that has little or no relationship to the net price of the car, when in fact it is exactly related. If leasing is "unappealing" then it's because the car is expensive. If leasing is appealing...

You're not going to make much sense of this using leasing math. I paid cash for my Bolt. GM got $43k from me. I get $10k of that back from the federal and state governments but GM still gets the same number of dollars. Effectively this is a profit pass-through to GM. Take away those incentives...

That's the likely scenario. Renewable energy in all of its forms and applications will be pursued aggressively by most of the world as a matter of environmental and economic policy. The U.S. will go in the other direction and be left behind.

I believe EVs are here to stay, but getting them above the 1% of installed base mark is likely to become more difficult over the coming years. The first policy likely to be targeted is the federal tax credit. It is due to sunset over the next couple of years anyway, but I would not be the...

In the weeks after mine was built at the end of November all I could get from GM was it was bayed, possibly for QC. I don't get how they do QC on a car sitting in a parking lot. Mine had eight miles on the clock when it was delivered, which suggests it was on a dynamometer for a few minutes, at...

Nice info, thanks! I also ordered in October, assembled last week of November, and delivered on 12/30. I have a VIN in the 130xxx range. I just assumed not knowing any better that they started with 130000, since that kind of adds up. Another unknown factor is whether the Bolt VINs are in...

Not sure. All I know is it didn't work for me at first but it did finally.