Chevy Bolt EV is returning to market, months after GM scrapped it

Seems like the discontinuation notice had to happen for certain sorts of dumb shareholder reasons because of the factory retooling and the subsequent hole in model years. (The last model year of the Bolt was 2023. The next model year is expected to be the 2026 Bolt. Oh no, there's no 2024 or 2025 Bolts!~) Some current (large) American car company shareholders (coughdealerscough) have gotten weirdly OCD that every active car model needs to hit every car model year. (Which is dumb for a whole lot of historic reasons and contributes to a lot of unnecessary year over year design change bloat/churn to just give excuses to bump model year numbers.)

Probably wanted to bump sales of the new Equinox.

Yep. Which should mean the new gen will charge faster than 50 kW, which makes it a lot more convenient for road trips.

If only it wasn't shaped like a freakin egg on wheels. As someone who is in the market for a new car, I would seriously consider this if it were like a real car I could feel good spending 26k on. (My last car was 6k used and it lasted me 10 years). This car is so tiny in real life not to mention that GM's current design philosophy makes their cars look like the toy that comes out of the bottom of a cereal box. You don't want to walk out of a dealership spending 26k only to feel like you bought something that doesn't truly make you happy. I could buy used but as with Tesla, who know what kind of repair nightmare these things will have post 100k miles. It would be less painful if the car was something I'd like to look at.

Why couldn't they just make this a real Model 3 competitor by making it their entry level sedan. Something normal like the Chevy Cruze EV would be quite appealing to me at that price. Instead it seemed like when they launched this car, they wanted to keep playing that game of pretending that they care while shipping another compliance-like car. I wish Ford shipped a Focus EV. That would be great as well. I don't understand why these companies have such crummy products in their portfolio.

I mean it's $26,500 before the tax credit. Which Teslas are that cheap? The Model 3 starts at $40,000.

Some people don't want an iPad for their center console.

Under $30k? That doesn't seem way too expensive, especially if they keep the range.

The Bolt seems to be a great (second) city-runaround car. I hope they recognized the potential of this market as a wedge into peoples’ homes.

isn't the bolt $30k whereas the cheapest tesla is $50k? seems significant.