Featured Chevy Bolt to have 238 Mile Range

There's a thread in the Chevy sub-forum on the announced price.

Actually adding CCS aftermarket to a Bolt will probably be not much of a challenge for those that want it. The actual charger for the DC charging is in the "charger", and not onboard like the AC charger. Hardware wise, it is just the plug port and heavy gauge wire going to the pack. Communication between the car and charger is handled over the same lines as AC charging. Perhaps a 'tune' is required to unlock the protocols in the software, but that is the easy part.

I don't see lack of CCS having a big impact on resale for several years on the national level. Regions were the network grows fast, might make it a sales draw, but the charging network isn't going to expand in an organized way. The people that really want a BEV for long trips are just going to buy a Tesla at this point.

 

Thanks to the MWRA.

 

agreed, but worth it for the clean water and fabulous water supply.

 

It will be interesting to see how many Bolt's come through with the $750 DC Fast Charging option pre-installed from the factory. As noted above, minimal hardware added to the car = big profit center for GM.

I'm hoping that Bolts (at least initially) will be pretty much made to customer order vs. drop shipped to dealers pre-configured with the most popular (read most profitable) options already installed.

I for one have no use for DC Fast Charging- I drive 25mi to work- the Chargepoint station there will replenish that in one hour, and I have L2 240v charging at home too- so another hour charging at home and I'm done.

 

I'm too cheap to be 'environmentally correct.'

Bob Wilson

 

I just like the v's utility, efficacy, efficiency, practicality, and the way it drives. If not for all that, I'd buy another old Porsche.

 

Chevy Bolt EV not on shared architecture, but platform name secret, GM says

 

"UPDATE: After this article published, GM's Kevin Kelly gave us the following statement that appears to explain the discrepancy: "The Bolt EV program originated on the Gamma architecture, but then grew into its own architecture—even as it maintained the G2 code.""

The GM Gamma platform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is what the Sonic/Aveo, Trax, and Spark are based on. GM is saying that the Bolt platform evolved enough during development to be considered separate from the latest Gamma platform. That may be true, or it may simply be marketing. There has been plenty of criticisms leveled against hybrids and plugins that have been made has conversions of a traditional model through the years, and the general public may not see the difference between model and platform. Which is a fair reason for some sleight of hand in regards to what platform the Bolt uses.

We won't really know one way or the other until someone compares internal structure parts. In my opinion, I think GM is claiming the changes to the belly pan and under structure for the battery is a big enough change to give the platform a new name.

 

It's kinda like when people say a Volt is built on a Cruze. The only things they really share are some suspension parts.

 

But they are both built upon the Delta platform.

Toyota made much fanfare about TNGA, but modular platforms aren't a new thing to the industry.