Haruspication is the art of predicting the future by “reading” the paths of sacrificial animals. In this story, fortune tellers We CNN and Automotive Newsthe paths are GM’s announced last week regarding a $7 billion investment in electric vehicle production, the majority of which will be spent on the Lake Orion assembly facility, the future of which is predicted to be Chevrolet Bolts and EUV . bolt Battery-powered hatchbacks aren’t long in this world. Evaluations are based on what GM has done and do not preface questions of what will become tram that is possible.
In our post on GM announcement, we wrote that “GM does not say what will happen to the Bolts once that conversion is complete or whether all will continue to be built at Orion.” The apparent conflict is that GM is retooling the plant to produce electric Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra starts next year. In case you forgot, one of the biggest car maker mistakes today is having platforms that are not interchangeable. The upcoming electric pickups are not only much more popular than the Bolt, but they also use the Ultium, Ultum platform the batteryand the Ultium electronics are more advanced than the Bolt’s internals. Following the plant conversion, Orion will have a capacity to produce 360,000 electric pickups per year, more than half of GM’s annual goal of 600,000 electric pickups. In tandem with all this, the Bolt has been out of production since last November, when GM prioritized recall and replace all battery packs in all Bolts ever produced. GM has said that they intend restart production earlier this year. That did not happen and there is no comment on when it will happen.
When CNN asked GM about the car, automaker spokesman Dan Flores replied, “Manufacturing Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV will continue in [Lake Orion’s] conversion operations to prepare the Silverado EV and Sierra EV pickup production facility”, and “We are not disclosing any additional information at this time about EV . Bolts or produce EUV Bolt. “Added to all the circumstantial evidence, CNN rang the doomsday bell with” Looks like GM is about to pull the plug on the Bolt. “
AutoNews following the same logic with the same conclusion, adding two nails to Bolt’s hypothetical coffin. ONE said industry intelligence firm AutoForecast Solutions believes Bolt will die in 2023, Bolt EUV in 2024. Then, back at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the GM CEO Mary Barra’s GM says GM will sell an electric vehicle Chevy Equinox and Blazers in 2023 for about $30,000. Both models are slightly larger than the Bolt EUV, but the Ultium internals and the $30,000 price tag should make up for it. intersect More advanced Bolt gives less junk than Bolt.
ONE Bloomberg Quint Piece think CNN and ONE is opening fire, hinting that GM might move production to another of its electric vehicle assembly plants in operation, adding to the left-wing idea that GM could keep the car but drop the Bolt name. Bloomberg support the latter implementation by noting that Bolt is Chevy’s the most successful conquest car and getting high ownership satisfaction scores, but is a Bolt by any other name still a draw?
GM said it will make an announcement at the end of February about the resumption of Bolt production. Maybe then we’ll know if Bolt has a future.
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