herbie herbie:
BOLT not VOLT.
BOLT = 383-415km on one charge. 4 passenger small car.
Thanks. I googled Bolt and they started telling me about Volt so I said to myself, "
Right, yeah, Volt, he must have made a typo."
But thanks for straightening me out. I looked into it. Fascinating stuff.
Wikipedia talks of a rumour Chevrolet is losing thousands of dollars per unit, but that's an anonymous sourced story from Bloomberg so it doesn't matter.
What is interesting is what it takes to charge those things.
So they come with some kind of cord or adaptor or something, but they're slow and pretty much useless for one of the 400 kilometre or more trips.
There's something called Level 2 charging where you can set up your own charger at home. I think it costs about a grand to install, but some areas have generous governments they claim will kick in as much as half.
A level 2 charger will give your dead Bolt Battery a full charge in about 10 hours.
They do have super chargers. They Zoom. Comparatively.
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Chevrolet’s official numbers show that “Super Fast” charging the vehicle will add 90 miles of range in 30 minutes, or 160 miles in an hour.
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/26/chevy-bolt-part-2/So say you want to drive down to Vancouver in your Bolt from Prince George.
Driving distance from Vancouver to Prince George is 1164 kilometers (723 miles).$1:
The Province of BC and the federal government are supporting 30 DC fast chargers through a pilot managed by BC Hydro. As of June 2016, there are 27 fast-charge locations in BC (not including Tesla’s SuperChargers).
http://pluginbc.ca/charging-stations/public-charging/Say you have a level 2 charger set up at your home. You charge up the day and night before you're ready to go. You drive your 250 miles. You're in luck. There's a super-charger. You connect for a charge. About 90 minutes later you're ready to go. Possibly...
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The Bolt EV battery is quite sensitive to internal temperature, and needs to be at 65 to 70 degrees F to charge at the highest rate;
Fast-charging starts to taper off at 50 percent capacity, and tapers again at 70 percent; and
Chevy's advertised "90 miles in 30 minutes" will only likely occur if the battery starts between 0 and 50 percent capacity.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/110 ... ectric-carThere is a money charge for what I think they call DC Fast. These guys say it's 35 cents a kilowatt hour in BC.
http://pluginbc.ca/charging-stations/public-charging/You can use these guys to figure that out:
http://www.autotrader.ca/newsfeatures/2 ... c-vehicle/but I'll just use a fast estimate and say about 63 bucks to dead charge that many klicks for a one way trip. Of course, you wouldn't do the trip that way though.
Here's another way to look at it though. They calculated charging a bolt for a year against filling up a 2017 Honda Civic.

Sounds pretty economical. Although I still suspect you could get a similar gas powered vehicle for about half the price of the EV.
After all that though yeah, a Bolt sounds like a fun thing for around the city. Maybe as a second car.