GM has created an all-electric masterpiece with the Chevy Bolt

[JHan]

We were impressed with the Bolt, as a car, as an electric car, and as a mobility concept. In many ways, it is GM's post-bankruptcy masterpiece, a real feather in the cap of CEO Mary Barra and her executive team, who took what the company had achieved with its ill-fated EV-1 back in the 1990s and turned it up to 11.

I also flat-out loved driving it. I blasted in and out of New York City twice, rocketed around the streets of Gotham, darting through traffic, and cruised along the highways of New Jersey. I also enjoyed just driving it around the quiet streets of the suburb where I live.

The steering is quick and responsive, and the handling is sharp enough to provide the confidence you need when surfing that sweet EV torque.

The single-pedal mode is also very cool — I dug not using the brakes at all for extended excursions in my town. After a bit of practice, you get into a kind of Zen state with it.

Not a soul asked me about the car, and that can be chalked up to the ho-hum design. But I didn't care. I was lovin' it. Plain and simple, the Bolt is fun. And it emits not one ounce of tailpipe greenhouse gas. Chevy says it will save you $4,250 on gas over five years, while costing $550 per year to keep charged.

Check it out:

http://www.businessinsider.com/2017-chevy-bolt-review-photos-2017-4/#sooooo-the-verdict-24

[TheBlackAdder]

1. Another South Korean-designed GM car, with SK batteries. GM is shifting to S. Korea and China.

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It's disheartening to see this happen, and they have the nerve to call it an American car, because final assembly happens in the US. Two Buicks are now offshored, and so is the Bolt to a large degree. GM buys Daewoo, who no one in the US would touch when they tried to sell cars here, and now everyone praises them. LG is Lucky Goldstar, a company that had to rebrand itself from Goldstar due to the bad reputation that had when trying to sell electronic goods in the US two decades ago.

With labor, it's lucky if the Bolt is 40% domestic.


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[hunter]

3. I'm some kind of bad Democrat because I don't care where cars are made.

All I know is that there are too many cars.

Like it or not, we live in a global economy now.

I'd love to live in a world where most people considered automobile ownership an unnecessary annoyance.

Walking is the best form of transportation. Humans evolved as hunter gatherers who walked a lot. Urban "hunting and gathering" with modern public transportation systems is a healthy drop-in replacement for that.

We ought to be rebuilding our cities and denser suburbs to make them much more friendly to pedestrians and bicyclists, and much less friendly to automobiles.

I'm some kind of Luddite. Our high energy industrial society is destroying this planet's natural environment and the consequences will be dire. Things have already become dire in some places, stresses caused by environmental degradation amplified by the human propensity for violence.

I bought a new car once, a long time ago when I was young and cocky, but never again. I currently drive an $800 car with a salvage title and I don't feel too bad about that because I don't drive it much and the catalytic converter and other anti-smog stuff still works. If and when this car dies, I can see myself purchasing a trashed Chevy Bolt.

But nobody is designing new cars that appeal to my sort because my sort is never going to buy a new car. If somebody gave me a brand new Tesla or Chevy Volt, I'd immediately give it away to someone who cared.

Any car I'm forced to drive has to tell the world that I don't give a shit about cars, not yours, not mine. My cars commonly go 300,000 plus miles because I hate them and they hate me. We live to spite one another.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. I think that was supposed to be a burn, but turned out more revealing than anything.

[hunter]

5. Revealing? That's nothing. I've posted pictures of my naked ass here on DU...

... and dropped clues where to find full frontals.

Burn? I was born a pyromaniac. That's not burn.

Car culture is not a cult I belong to.

[BSdetect]

2. I don't trust the car company that killed one original electric car