I haven’t driven many EVs, but the bolt was the worst of them all. You literally can’t even tell what your battery percentage is. They give you ten bars and you have to read it like a WiFi signal, except it’s impossible due to how small it is. GM vehicles are absolute trash. Anyway more EVs are better so ignore my rant.
My parents have a bolt and it has a gas gauge type bar, but also a range in kilometers overlayed on the bar and it takes up the entire left hand side of the dashboard. It’s like an inch wide by 5 inches tall. Very easy to see and read. So they may have learned in later models that people need to see how much range they have left
The bolt has always been a strange car for the sake of being strange. I went to look at one and was turned off by non-symmetric two-toned seats, the generally ugly exterior, and just weird control interface. I’ve had cheap cars including a Chevy Aveo, so barebones functionality doesn’t scare me.
I kind of wish it was just like a Malibu or something with an EV drivetrain. A lot of people don’t want an EV as a status symbol. For those who do, they wouldn’t buy a GM product anyways…
With the federal incentives to produce EVs it’s kind of strange they went through the trouble of discontinuing it without a replacement in the first place.
