Each dealership had different prices and required a ton of haggling just to get the sticker price. Each one had their own “EV guy” who was the only one at the dealership that had any knowledge of, or interest in, selling a Bolt. No dealer knew the difference between DC fast charging and Level 2 charging. I had to call three separate Chevy dealers in my area who all had different waiting times and had heard different things about delivery dates. My experience there should have been a huge warning sign that this company was not ready to sell an electric car - especially one as awesome as the Bolt. So I bought one of the first Chevy Bolts to reach the East Coast in early 2017. To this day, I think they should have marketed it as a “hot hatch” family car category and had people be shocked by how much room it has both in front and back as much as the driving experience. Chevy started calling it a “Micro-crossover,” which absolutely no one stuck with.
Small on the outside but with tons of room inside, it didn’t fit any traditional car’s description. Electrek wasn’t the EV publishing behemoth it is now, so it was flattering to be one of only a few publications to be given a personal tour of the Bolt by its creator. Pam Fletcher, the engineer who had previously headed up the Chevy Volt’s revolutionary powertrain and propulsion system design and was essentially the person who brought the Bolt to market, gave us a very thorough tour. I got my first taste of the Chevy Bolt way back at CES in January of 2016. I really loved the car, but the company behind it was a whole lot harder to love. Both only offered me the sticker price, which was a non-starter at more than a new 2020 Bolt.Īnd that’s a theme I encountered with GM and the Bolt. I asked both GM Financial and the dealer if I could buy the car out at a reasonable price months ago. I got an extra month because NY car dealers were closed for the pandemic, but I didn’t do much extra driving, and GM Financial has been wishy-washy on whether they are going to bill me extra for not being able to turn it in. It is the first time I’ve been back to the dealer since I picked up the car and nothing had changed. Like a lot ( 2) of early Chevy Bolt owners, I gave up my three-year lease recently and surrendered the 238-mile compact EV to my local Chevy dealer.
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