On 2024-05-08 17:13, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote:
Michigan Mitch, who no doubt has been caught up with tax season, was
the resident Bolt/Volt expert, as I recall. Hopefully, he’ll have time
to chime in on this.
I was saving Curt's message to reply to.
In 2012, when GM had one EV (the EV-1 doesn't count, none were made in
this century and none were ever sold), Volt was a good enough name.
Almost simultaneously dropping the Volt and introducing the Bolt made
things confusing, Curt would argue stupidly confusing and I can't
dispute him.
I knew a Bolt was more powerful, heavier and faster than a Spark, with
enough range to handle even my winter highway commute with single point
charging. I didn't realize how small it was for a car that heavy until
the day I actually parked next to one at Meijer.
For some reason the pictures had me thinking it was a 3/4 scale "mini"
van. But it's not in the same ballpark, or even the same planet, as a
Grand Caravan.
If I were in the market I might consider a $10k Bolt with a 95% battery.
I wanted to like the Volt, but it's always been heavier, slower and more
expensive than a Cruze and it shares the Cruze chassis. At least the
Spark EV blew the doors off the 1.4L Spark gasser.
I wonder what a used Spark goes for these days?
Maybe I should have bought that $9k lemon law Spark I found in Wisconsin
7 years ago.
But it doesn't have the round trip capacity I need in the winter, and in
the winter of 2017 the city of Dewitt wrapped their free public charger
in police tape so I would have been running a 110V extension cord from
the office if I drove it to work.
If it was blue/blue with level 3 charging I would have bought it. But it
was black, and the upscale model with black vinyl ("leatherette") and no
fast charge socket.
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