![]() ![]() The hatchback means it is easy to load and there’s a surprising amount of space in the back. You can rip around turns, gun it on green lights and park with ease. Maybe the most important aspect of the Bolt experience is the ease and how much downright fun it is to own. Bolt EV and EUV – Fun to drive and practical The seats of both Bolts improved dramatically in 2022, and I wasn’t among the people who hated the early Bolt seats – the whole interior is just a lot nicer. The 0-60 in six seconds isn’t lightning fast, but it is respectable. Otherwise, the EUV is outstanding for an inexpensive EV, which are few and far between these days. Soon after GM wouldn’t sell me my Bolt, they began having Bolt battery fires and started buybacks and halted production. So I wrote a retrospective and moved on, but of course, GM wasn’t yet done with the Bolt. I also didn’t want to go through Chevy dealer hell again to get a new one. I loved it so much, I even wrote some blasphemy like “10 things I like on my Chevy Bolt EV vs the Tesla Model S.” When my 3-year lease was up, I tried to buy out the Bolt, but GM somehow wanted to charge me more than a new one so I passed. I got mine on the east coast in early 2017 and fell in love with the very small form factor “Micro Crossover.” Just for nostalgia, this was the 2015 Bolt prototype:Ĭhevy actually built the Bolt EV and delivered the first units at the end of 2016. We weren’t allowed on streets, just a big parking lot, but it was immediately obvious that there had been some great engineering and packaging work done here. At that time it was a prototype, and we were among the first to actually get to drive it. ![]() I’ve been driving one version or another of this car since way back at CES in January of 2016. But considering recent events GM has cleaned up the battery “issue” and lowered the price by $6000, and introduced 2023 model year – as well as a tax rebate refresh opportunity – I thought it would be fun to take another look at the now sub-$30,000 Bolt EUV. Long time Electrek readers will know that I leased a Chevy Bolt EV from 2017 until the pandemic and really loved that electric blue “Micro-SUV” EV we’ve already taken a look at its younger sibling, the EUV with Super Cruise.
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