I bought my bolt two years ago as my first ever EV. It was the best value proposition of any car at the time. I was a bit hesitant but I dove head first into the EV world. It was a really great car for me. It had a great mix of utility, features, value and pep. I took it on four memorable long road trips that went without a hitch. I hauled lumber, furniture and all volumes of cargo throughout. It cost me nearly nothing to run as I have free charging at work. I converted two of my friends to EV when they rode in it and felt the instant acceleration. This is the perfect gateway car into the world of EVs. I can say without hesitation that I will never own an ICE car ever again, thanks to the Bolt. In the end, I needed a bit more range and space so I traded up to a Blazer EV. But thank you to this community for helping me start my EV journey. I’ll still be lurking around here, and looking forward to the next-gen Bolt and what it brings.

I finally had some time to test out the A2Z Typhoon Pro last night and it works without a software update to my 2023 Bolt EUV.

Work like a charm, once I figured out the Tesla App. I had to set my Vehicle adapter choice to No for the stations to show up on the Map. With Yes chosen the stations will not show up on the map.

I got my adapter for $177.30 using code RIV getting $19.70 off.

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I've been on the fence about getting the Tesla adapter. I'm for sure going to get one, but we don't road trip often enough to make it an urgent purchase. But last night I really wished I had had one.

We were down in Eugene, OR, visiting our daughter. It's 112 miles each way, so it's a perfect test of the Bolt's range at highway speeds. In the summer, as long as we don't do a lot of driving around town, we can comfortably make it round trip driving 65 mph the whole way with a 100% starting charge. As weather comes into play, it can get a little close for comfort, so our usual routine is to stop in either Woodburn or Wilsonville (20-30 miles from home) for a 5-10 minute top-off. Those EA stations have always been available when we need them, so it's a reliable routine.

But yesterday was the day that everything didn't fall neatly into place. The rain was really intense heading down, causing us to average only 3.1 mi/kWh. For those that don't like doing math, that meant we hit Eugene with only 45% left. No problem, as the charging options along I-5 are plentiful. My new plan was to get a bit of charge locally, so that we could stick with the our usual stop closer to home. Eugene doesn't have any DC charging close to U of O or downtown, so I was on the hunt for some L2 while eating lunch and whatever what we did that afternoon.

I found two free L2 chargers in a city parking garage a block from lunch, so I dropped the family and drove over. Both were taken by Teslas, and of course no one had checked in on plug share. No prob, I could plug in after lunch near the train station. I've used that before and it's only 3 kW, but I was just looking for anything to get me further down the road. Unfortunately, one was taken by another Bolt (also no check-in), and the other was cut (always painful to see that).

So by the time we left town, I think we were a bit below 35%. We should have had enough to just make it up to Salem, but given the crazy rains, I wasn't totally confident. Also I had been keeping an eye on the EA station up there, and it had been full all afternoon (1 stall was down). I could have stopped at the EA in Springfield to juice up before leaving the area, but I really prefer to at least be down to 20 to get a better charge curve. In retrospect, that would have been the best plan. Instead I decided to stop at EA in Albany, which had shown as having a free stall all day long. However, when we were 20 miles out, it turned to busy. We knew it had only 2 functioning stalls, and when we got there, both were full. After a minute, I realized that there was a Tesla waiting, so we were actually second in line. There was an EA tech working on the others, but he told me that he needed more parts.

Because we were needing to get back, as we were running late to dinner at our friend's house, we decided to go up to Salem. I knew that EA station could have even more cars backed up, but there were other DCFC options in the area. The problem was going to be that we didn't want to drive all over town with our last bit of battery to find a working option. Must of the non-EA stations had very little info and only old check-ins on plugshare. Decided to take a chance and head to a BP Pulse station on the south end of town. Fortunately, both chargers were all working, and they had tap-to-pay, meaning I didn't have to set up yet another account. It didn't even tell me the cost, but at that point I didn't even care. I added a photo and a check-in to try to help out the community.

We were at 3%, which is definitely below my comfort level when on the road. On the plus side, the charger could stay at a solid 50 kW while we got the car up to 30% to get home. Had it not worked, I could have driven slowly to another charger, but I didn't want to have to sit in a potentially big queue at EA, as we really needed to get home.

While usually I am casual about traveling with an EV, last night was the first time I was getting a little stressed. I just kept thinking about the Tesla adapter, and how having that would have given me more confidence to push through directly to Salem, knowing that the EA was likely going to be full, as I could have used the Superchargers as a backup. Yes, there were other DCFC options in town, but last night wasn't the time to be experimenting with them. By getting off the road in Albany, we wasted battery and time, which then made it very tight to get up to Salem. One other challenge is that if I'm driving, I can't be reading plugshare reviews, and it's very hard to talk my wife through it all while I can't even see the screen. She's not nerdy, so making changes on the fly is tougher than if I were in the passenger seat.

In the future, I'd like to have the Tesla adapter as my insurance, and if I know I be somewhere by a specific time, I would probably grab the charge from an available charger before we leave our destination, even though it would cost us a little extra time being on a worse part of the charge curve. Of course leaving earlier would have been the smartest thing, but that's easier said than done with my family. 😂

Just wanted to share my story. No need to tell me that I could have driven really slowly to get more range, as I'm well aware. I actually did drop down to 50-55 to get from Albany to Salem, but I found that the water on the road meant I really couldn't get much better efficiency. I will get a Tesla adapter before our next trip, and I'll probably never use it. I checked their map this morning, and they surprisingly don't have Superchargers in Albany. Their map is very similar in these areas to EA. But having 12 or more stalls with no broken chargers means that you can actually count on them when you're more desperate.

Our situation could have been bettered by several different decisions, most importantly by building in more time to our schedule. We had constraints on both our departure and arrival times, and of course we wanted to maximize time down there. Ironically I probably pushed things too far because I havea year of experience and haven't really had any close calls before. A newer driver might have been more conservative and insisted on going out of their way to DCFC is Springfield, whereas I was much more willing to risk it based on my previous good experiences.

I have an account with unlimited WiFi in the OnStar package. If I understand the systems correctly, I can put the car in Service Mode and keep the wifi on for ~12 hours, so long as I keep the 12 volt battery charge from dropping to low. When not on the level 2 in the garage, direct charge the 12 volt system…( I plan to use an external 12 volt / 10 amp smart charger ) hood up. Thoughts on doing this to eliminate my home internet expenses.

Hello all. Trying to find a class three trailer hitch that will fit a 2023 Bolt EV, not an EUV. From what I’ve read in the subreddit and online, the EUV hitch will not fit the EV. Yes, I understand the vehicle limitations…but I’d rather get something that will fit my 2” cargo carrier and bike rack without having to add a 1 1/4” to 2” adapter. Any suggestions or personal experience?

How do I use my chevy evgo credit with chargepoint chargers. Can I use the chargepoint app?

According to my heads up would take 45 min to charge from 50% to 80%. Seems pretty low even for Bolt standards but this was always really more for the accessibility.

Are battery section replacements common? My 2023 Bolt EUV is under warranty and the battery failed or faulted enough to trigger the reduced propulsion warning. The dealer was great with scheduling a service appointment. Long story short, the GM driven decision is to replace only Module 1 in the battery pack. As much as this makes sense, I’ve not read about module or section replacements at all compared to full battery replacements.

Michelin Pilot Sport 4s

Hankook Ion EVO AS

Considering one of these two. Which one would be better? Similar price after rebates.

I've been looking at buying a used bolt. One dealership has some 19's with brand new batteries. Another has some 20's with 2 yr old batteries. The newer models are from California so should be cleaner than the older models that have been driven in winter weather. As an experienced owner which would you buy?

Rear camera started acting up a few months ago. Took it to the dealership they said a new camera was required but in back order. Gave it back because i wanted to drive it and I didn't have another issue for months until now. Only thing I could think of is I used the remote start, it got cold, or it's was just time to act up again. Any thoughts to what it could be before I take it back to the dealership?

Does anyone like these, good experiences?

Welcome a cranberry assembled in Michigan, that rambled in Missouri, newly arrived in Maryland.

Very excited.

Hi all. I've had my 2023 Bolt EV for a couple of months now. Bought used from hertz so it only came with one key. I saw a older post here in this sub as to how you could successfully add a second or even third key by reprogramming all 3.

I decided to give it a try and ordered a pair of aftermarket keys off ebay. I followed everyones feedback and the instructions on page 11 of the manual and initially everything worked fine. Both my 1 original key and 2 new ones worked fine. The lock/unlock function worked as well as walk up to touch the handle function.

A couple of weeks ago, the car stopped recognizing the eBay key unless I put it in the center console.

Now this week, I noticed the original key would require a few more presses to lock or unlock the car. Now today, it's not recognizing the original key unless I put it in the center console.

I figure I'm just going to try and reprogram all 3 again and see what happens. Has anyone else run into this issue?

Can someone explain what's going on here? I just got curious and looked at this and it appears like the climate control is one of the biggest drainers of my battery is that really. What's going on?

Hello, Bolt people! Glad to be here with my new car :)

I started researching EV's early this year knowing that I wouldn't qualify for the used EV tax credit next year. Was really hoping I could find an Ioniq 5 under $25k but quickly realized that would really just the base trim with high miles (if I could even find one), both of which I wasn't super excited about. After test driving a couple Bolts from a local EV-only dealer near me (shoutout Platt Auto in Portland) I finally pulled the trigger when my ideal spec came online: '22 EUV Premier, white with blue/black interior, no sunroof.

Purchased for about $20k after the $4k credit/discount - just over 11k miles on it. I've had it for only a week but I'm really digging it so far! I'm coming from a 2013 KIA Soul I've had since I bought it new nearly 11 years ago so....this thing is a huge upgrade. Really looking forward to the EV life.

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Most EV owners don’t drive fast so it’s hard to find real world reports of energy consumption at higher speeds.

I recently bought one and drove a fair distance to take it home. Figured I’d provide a real world report that people might stumble upon with a Google search.

2022 Bolt EUV traveling on interstate in flyover country. Very little wind. 50 to 60° F. Mild hills so sometimes going uphill but the elevation trend is a very gentle downward slope.

I charged and reset my trip odometer as I pulled out. Set cruise at 82 mph ~45 seconds after leaving charging station. I was running AC because interior heated up while I was charging and eating. Just me in the car and no luggage.

45 miles later average mi/kWh was 2.5. I hit some road construction and slowed to 60 for a few min taking me back up to 2.6 mi/kWh briefly. By the time I got 53 miles in it was back to 2.5.

If there were another digit I suspect it would be close to 2.53 mi/kWh.

That gives about 117 miles of comfortable range if you start with 80%

I used Electrify America at $0.56/kWh. That puts the cost at around $0.22/mile.

If you had a similar hybrid car running those speeds you might be around $0.085/mile. (35 mpg and $3 gas, adjust fuel and mpg to your preferences).

So, if you’re wanting to cover ground quickly, not a good car but I knew that going in and didn’t buy it for that purpose. For me it’ll be a short trip vehicle and charging at home for $0.105/kWh and I’ll be running a fair amount slower on those trips so it’ll be way cheaper.

Love it so far!

'23 EUV. Love the car overall and these are minor annoyances coming from an '17 gen 2 volt.

I thought most of the features that were the same would largely carryover unchanged.....but man the auto high beams are way way more conservative. I have just had to use them manually more times than not. And the auto cruise is way less smooth when someone merges or similar.

My volt would smoothly back off to a safe distance when someone mergesdin front of me but the Bolt doesn't react until the car is almost fully in front of me and then brakes kinda hard to get it's spacing back. It also follows way too closely for my comfort when in slow traffic.

The high beams hardly ever come on because there is such a long trigger delay and they seem to need a much darker overall environment to begin with.

Why so different car to car Chevy?

Hello everyone, sorry for the "general" post. I'm considering purchasing a used Bolt EUV and wanted to know what are the things that I should be aware of/pay attention to or if anyone had any advice for me as I start searching. Any gotchas that I should avoid?

I received this email last night. There's a few things odd about it...

1. I have not logged in recently. (I changed my password after receiving this)
2. The email was sent by Microsoft on behalf of GM from msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com.
   1. The domain microsoftonline.com is owned by Microsoft as far as I can tell. (Compare with Microsoft.com)
   2. As far as I can tell, this email is appears to be legit coming from an @microsoftonline.com domain. Whomever sent it appears to actually be at Microsoft (Checked email headers)
3. You might say, perhaps this is phishing? but...
   1. There are no call to actions to reply back, in fact the opposite.
   2. All links (Privacy Statement and Contact are to actual GM websites (verified). The email link is just a mail link to send an email to my email address.
   3. Here's the kicker... I used a randomly generated email for my Chevy login... The only people who know what this email address are GM, my password manager, and Gmail/Google. If this email is phishing then my email address was leaked likely from one of those three...
4. I clicked the Change Username link in my GM account and it sent me an email with a code from their own email address and it looks quite different than this one.
   1. The sus email appears to be verifying an email rather than an at login multi-factor auth.
   2. Not sure if the sus email would be sent from other means that I don't know about (systems can be complex behind the scenes)

Did anyone else receive anything like this recently? If it is phishing then there is absolutely nothing for the phisher to be phishing. Even the emails in the email are hosted by Microsoft... And if it is an illegitimate email then someone knows my GM email somehow.

Sus email

For sure legit email