The Dream of Affordable EV Ownership Goes Up In Flames (a statistically small percent of the time) – the Bolt Recall

I got my Bolt on July 1, 2021. Less than two months later, on August 20, 2021, GM expanded the Bolt battery recall to include my 2020 model. For those of you who don't know, over a period of 6 or so months GM issued several recalls for the high-voltage batteries in the Bolts, eventually …

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Shopping: Chevy Bolt EV – We Have a Winner!

Eventually I got around to trying the Bolt, which, despite my baseless prejudice toward Chevrolet, already seemed very compelling. It's true that compared to all of the new EVs, and even some of it's older peers like the Niro and Kona, its charging speed of 50kW was unimpressive. And it was a miss that the …

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