Featured Holden Wants Left-Hand-Drive Chevy Bolt For New Zealand

Tideland Prius · Nov 21, 2017

As one might expect, the anticipated sales volume for the right-hand-drive Bolt EV was too small for GM to consider the offering, and given what we have seen with shipping the car to LHD markets outside of the US, international volume may not really have been one of the original targets of production anyway.

But now the reviews are in and apparently demand is high, so Holden New Zealand is even willing to import the left-hand-drive version for sale (or to self-promote) … if only government would enable them to do so.
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Holden Wants Left-Hand-Drive Chevy Bolt For New Zealand

Holden New Zealand wants to begin selling the hugely popular Bolt electric vehicle. There's only one hitch - it will have to be left-hand drive.

Managing director Kristian Aquilina is keen to see the Government relax current regulations on the sale of left-hand drive vehicles so a limited number of the Bolts can be imported, mainly as a means of demonstrating the big advances being achieved in EV technology.

The Bolt is built in North America and sold there as a Chevy. It's also sold in some left-hand drive markets in Europe as the Opel Ampera-E, and there is talk that a business case is being prepared to produce it in right-hand drive form for markets such as the UK.
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Holden asks: Why can't we import left-hand drive Bolt electric vehicles? | Stuff.co.nz

bisco · Nov 21, 2017

sounds like it should be moved to fhopol.

Featured Holden Wants Left-Hand-Drive Chevy Bolt For New Zealand

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