We bought a Bolt 2020 20 k miles on it well equipped for $10,400 out the door at Victory Chevy in KC and drove it 500 miles in one day home to Memphis TN in February 24. We routinely get 250-300 miles per charge running 30-70 mph in mixed driving around the local area. Power is $.11 per KW at home. It costs on average $.025 per mile. We charge at 32.5 amps per hour. This is our first electric car and is due to seeing your blog in January with Victory Chev. We love it for what we use it for. We have the only electric car in our neighborhood. Lot of friends and family thought we were nuts to get one.
I would not say nuts,to each his own. I just get annoyed when people think EV's will 'save the planet'....EV's go through tires much faster because of weight and torque. Most of the gas savings will go up in smoke when you need a new Battery!! Enjoy the car because you like how it drives,looks....I respect that, but don't give me the better for the planet slogan,because it ain't true!
I’ve had my 23 bolt euv for 3200 miles. I love driving it. Mixed usage with more city driving. In the city driving under 45mph often getting around 6kw. My accumulated total average is 4.6. I filled recently at home to 100% and meter shown 322 miles for the middle number. So far I’m achieving this with my driving. The car was designed for this type of driving. Highway road tripping not so much. I use one pedal driving all the time.
Sounds familiar. I have my second 2023 Bolt EV (not EUV). First one was a twin to the one in the video in light blue 1LT. I had that one for 15 months and 16,000 miles and it was averaging 4.7 miles per KWH when I sold it. My second new 2023 is again the smaller one in the 2LT trim. Just hit 2,600 miles when I parked tonight and it's averaging 4.8 miles per KWH. Charging it now and just looked on my app. Says 99% and 330 miles of range. Love this thing.
@@danielberning1240 It doesn't really matter what mode you're in. You can coast easily in both driving modes with good throttle control. Might be easier to practice in D first
I'd really like to pick up a pre-owned Bolt. Currently drive a Cruze and I think it would just be super cool to do my commute in an EV. Thanks for sharing your experience !
I get to full charge about 287 miles highest, around town, never on highway. About 210-234 average. Average temperatures outside 71-87 degrees. I have 2023 bolt ev 1lt
Definitely appreciate your commitment to your channel. Much appreciated! This is a true test of real range since this simulates what type of driving most drivers do during their week.
Thank you for your time commitment to this topic. Bolt continues to prove in its EV or EUV form, that it is one of the most “bang for your buck” super values you can get from an electric vehicle. I’m about to do a trip to Southwest Florida with the bolt EUV but doing different legs on the way down so that I drive no further than 560 miles in any one leg. Because of content like this (and PlugandPlayEV and News Cloumb) before I ever got into a Bolt that made me confident that this was the right vehicle for my use case (90-100 miles daily) with an occasional long road trip. Love your content (even the Tesla :) )
Thank you for sharing a relatable experience that uses common terms easily understood by non-tech folks! Your route and approach to battery monitoring was what I would feel comfortable doing in a real-world application. Knowing there are so many variables, your video provides more than enough confidence to a non-tech person that this EV can get them around town and back home again without panic! Your videos are helping me to inch my way toward an EV. Thanks!
The video matches my experience with the Bolt perfectly. As soon as you described the conditions, I knew 260 was about how many miles the Bolt could do, it was just a matter of how low you were willing to run the battery.
Excellent. It will only get better with new EVs. I have an EV I plug into my charger in our driveway. Never realized how much I dislike going to a gas station. Also with an EV you can set it to a comfortable temperature before you get in.
My 2023 Bolt⚡EV Has 13k miles with a lifetime avg of 4.9mi. I regularly get over 320mi on a charge not using A/C and relying on regenerative brakes to stop the car 95% of the time.
Went from our house to Boston which is 150 miles total. Lots of stop and go traffic, 4 hr trip. The Bolt was charged to 90% and returned with just under half a battery. The car indicated 123 miles remaining and fairly certain it could do that loop again. The only bad part is the $0.35 kwhr rates we pay which negates the savings over gas. It is still superior to ICE for that type of driving.
Certainly depends on speed and how you drive it, My 2020 Bolt went 300 miles from South Padre Island to Seguin Texas when I kept my speed at a max of 55mph and I probably had another 15 miles in the battery before running out. It was done as a test and I moved out of the way of traffic so I wasn't being a jerk in the way.
Cool video especially since I just purchased a 22 Bolt EUV LT fully equipped. Wow do I love this car. I did hit 5.6mi/kw on my ride to work yesterday. As I am new with EVs I am learning the right way to drive and use the regen to its maximum potential. I do get both sides of the coin with ICE vs EV crowd. My thought on it is if your happy driving a 8 cylinder beast go for it I will not stop you. I don't understand why the hate has to be such an issue. I love EVs and you may hate them, but in the end does it really matter? My wife is not an EV fan, but she respects me for why I wanted one and I respect why she does not.
@@SteveRoweI would guess that the 70 mph is dropping your efficiency. Nothing wrong with it, eVs are more sensitive to speed. EVs carry less energy than ICE cars and rely on the high efficiency for range.
Now I know you said the Tesla was better for long distance. But I have to tell you. The range on this Bolt is very impressive for a lot less money. I would really like to see both cars driven at the same time. They tried to do it on TFLev and guess what . The Bolt won .
I would have liked to see a hghway oriented range test. Most of the times when I would think about range would involve road tripping, as opposed to driving around town.
True, but there are already several videos from other creators that show that and I wanted this one to be a little different. I also have a few road trips on my channel. Efficiency goes down to about 3.6 or 3.7 mi/kWh with all highway driving in my experience.
When you're road tripping along a major highway, there's generally good enough DC fast charger coverage that range isn't that important - when the battery gets low, you just pull into a charger and charge up. When range still really does matter is when you travel in rural back roads with generally poor charger coverage away from interstates. Such back roads tend to have slower speeds, and also slowdowns for curves and towns. This tends to produce conditions very similar to what's shown in the video, making this a very useful test. Also, highway-only range tests of Bolts has been done by many other TH-camrs numerous times, so I like the fact that this video is doing something different, rather than simply repeating what everybody else is doing.
Maybe I missed it, did you say what the climate was set to? I remember getting over 300 miles last summer with literally everything turned off. My windows were cracked for keeping my cabin temperature down and I believe my efficiency was around 4.7mi/kwh, half highway driving 65mph and half county roads going between 35-50mph with about 7 stop lights. 300 has to be close to the limit, unless you’re able to maintain 30mph, then you can get like 400+ miles from a charge.
Very impressive consumption numbers. My model 3 rwd (LFP) lifetime so far is 242wh/mile (so about 4 miles/kwh) over 13k miles but that includes winter in the midwest.
Thank you for this.. so I assume it's safe to say you get a sold 8hr of travel time from this EV.. great to know.. then super charge about 2 hrs before able to continue... maybe.. can you test the chevy Silverado soon? This is great.. hope chevy has or will compensate you 🎉 we needed this for anyone considering buying
Love watching Bolt videos! I live in So. Cal. and would like to get an EV. Hertz is selling a lot of rental 2023 EUV Bolts at about $15,000. arger Some have low, 30 to 40,000 miles on them. I don't have home charger yet, electric company wants $5,000 to transfer cable to my front yard!!! I tyhink maybe with little driving that we do( retired) just plug or pay like EV GO.
I would highly recommend getting one. They are so much fun to drive. It’s not a road trip car. And if you can at all afford to have a level 2 charger put in (shop around for a better price from electrician)-definitely recommend that. It’s the best 2nd car there is.
California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Virginia have passed right-to-charge laws aiming to streamline the installation of residential community EV charging stations. Also, Illinois recently passed a right-to-charge law specific to new houses or multiunit buildings.
EV's are a good idea in the city stop and go traffic. Highway not so much for long road trips. We have a long way to go until batteries start getting lighter and more efficient. For me it'd frustrating when the A/C is on and you instantly lose 30-40 miles!
He drove 260 in what looked like mostly highway driving. Sure it’s not ideal for a coast to coast driving trip but for what most people do this is more than capable
While the dashboard on a Bolt may make it seem as though turning on the A/C instantly costs you 30-40 miles of range, that's not actually what's happening. What you're actually seeing is the car's software adjusting its range estimates to assume that the several-hours of driving it takes to run the battery down to zero will happen with the A/C on rather than off. The A/C itself uses almost no power in the couple seconds between when you turn it on and when the range estimator adjusts; but, over several hours of driving, the A/C power draw does add up, so a loss of 30-40 miles of range - under the assumption that the A/C stays on for the whole trip - is indeed what to expect. You can see this for yourself by, once the guess-o-meter drops 30-40 miles, turning the A/C back off again and, low and behold, the 30-40 miles of range you thought you had lost instantly comes back! Again, shutting off the A/C has not put 30-40 miles worth of range into the battery, just like turning on the A/C has not taken 30-40 miles of range out of it. The only thing that has changed is the assumptions behind the software calculating your range estimates. The fact that air conditioning consumes energy is also the case in every car out, including gas cars. If you fill up a gas car to full and drive it to empty, you *will* get less range if the A/C is on vs. if the A/C is off. The only difference is that most gas cars (particular older gas cars) don't bother to include range estimates that takes climate control settings into account, so you don't see the impact instantly on the dashboard and have to actually drive the car a bunch of miles and look at the fuel gauge in order to notice. As to long road trips, the Bolt is not very representative of EV charging capabilities as, just about every other EV out there for sale charges much faster than a Bolt does. The point behind the Bolt is that it is significantly cheaper to buy than the faster-charging competition while still boasting 250+ miles of range, so if you don't need the super-fast charging, you don't have to pay for it. Myself, I'm personally of the opinion that, rather than spending thousands more on a car in order to get super-fast charging capabilities, you are better off just spending the money on airline tickets and rental cars.
We bought a Bolt 2020 20 k miles on it well equipped for $10,400 out the door at Victory Chevy in KC and drove it 500 miles in one day home to Memphis TN in February 24. We routinely get 250-300 miles per charge running 30-70 mph in mixed driving around the local area. Power is $.11 per KW at home. It costs on average $.025 per mile. We charge at 32.5 amps per hour. This is our first electric car and is due to seeing your blog in January with Victory Chev. We love it for what we use it for. We have the only electric car in our neighborhood. Lot of friends and family thought we were nuts to get one.
Thanks! Love to hear that it’s working out!
I would not say nuts,to each his own. I just get annoyed when people think EV's will 'save the planet'....EV's go through tires much faster because of weight and torque. Most of the gas savings will go up in smoke when you need a new Battery!! Enjoy the car because you like how it drives,looks....I respect that, but don't give me the better for the planet slogan,because it ain't true!
That price is amazing can I paid $30 k for my '23, you are a genius!
Excellent range test. I've had my new Bolt EV since November and I'm approaching 4700 miles. It's basically my weekend car. I love it! 🚙🇺🇸🔌⚡
I’ve had my 23 bolt euv for 3200 miles. I love driving it. Mixed usage with more city driving. In the city driving under 45mph often getting around 6kw. My accumulated total average is 4.6. I filled recently at home to 100% and meter shown 322 miles for the middle number. So far I’m achieving this with my driving. The car was designed for this type of driving. Highway road tripping not so much. I use one pedal driving all the time.
Sounds familiar. I have my second 2023 Bolt EV (not EUV). First one was a twin to the one in the video in light blue 1LT. I had that one for 15 months and 16,000 miles and it was averaging 4.7 miles per KWH when I sold it. My second new 2023 is again the smaller one in the 2LT trim. Just hit 2,600 miles when I parked tonight and it's averaging 4.8 miles per KWH. Charging it now and just looked on my app. Says 99% and 330 miles of range. Love this thing.
@@danielberning1240Coast more, dont rely on regen as much and that number will go up
@@samusaran7317 Thanks for the tip. But are you saying take off the one pedal drive and coast?
@@danielberning1240 It doesn't really matter what mode you're in. You can coast easily in both driving modes with good throttle control. Might be easier to practice in D first
@@danielberning1240 Try get your power reading close to 0-3kw, closer to 0 the better and let the car roll while anticipating stops
Very informative. 4.5 is great. Gonna put the future Bolt on my short list
I'd really like to pick up a pre-owned Bolt. Currently drive a Cruze and I think it would just be super cool to do my commute in an EV. Thanks for sharing your experience !
I get to full charge about 287 miles highest, around town, never on highway. About 210-234 average. Average temperatures outside 71-87 degrees. I have 2023 bolt ev 1lt
Great video guys, appreciate the effort. Stay safe my friends.
ALL THE WAY !
Thanks for the BOLT content
I think bolt is a very mainstream EV, could work for many people and many situations.
Wow. That was quite a time commitment from you. Many thanks. I enjoyed the insights you provided.
Definitely appreciate your commitment to your channel. Much appreciated! This is a true test of real range since this simulates what type of driving most drivers do during their week.
Thank you for your time commitment to this topic. Bolt continues to prove in its EV or EUV form, that it is one of the most “bang for your buck” super values you can get from an electric vehicle.
I’m about to do a trip to Southwest Florida with the bolt EUV but doing different legs on the way down so that I drive no further than 560 miles in any one leg.
Because of content like this (and PlugandPlayEV and News Cloumb) before I ever got into a Bolt that made me confident that this was the right vehicle for my use case (90-100 miles daily) with an occasional long road trip.
Love your content (even the Tesla :) )
Thank you for sharing a relatable experience that uses common terms easily understood by non-tech folks! Your route and approach to battery monitoring was what I would feel comfortable doing in a real-world application. Knowing there are so many variables, your video provides more than enough confidence to a non-tech person that this EV can get them around town and back home again without panic! Your videos are helping me to inch my way toward an EV. Thanks!
The video matches my experience with the Bolt perfectly. As soon as you described the conditions, I knew 260 was about how many miles the Bolt could do, it was just a matter of how low you were willing to run the battery.
Excellent. It will only get better with new EVs. I have an EV I plug into my charger in our driveway. Never realized how much I dislike going to a gas station. Also with an EV you can set it to a comfortable temperature before you get in.
Battery tech will keep getting better, but the car companies will keep making bigger, heavier, less efficient cars.
My 2023 Bolt⚡EV Has 13k miles with a lifetime avg of 4.9mi. I regularly get over 320mi on a charge not using A/C and relying on regenerative brakes to stop the car 95% of the time.
2023 Bolt EUV here since last September. Love your informative videos. Thanks!
Went from our house to Boston which is 150 miles total. Lots of stop and go traffic, 4 hr trip. The Bolt was charged to 90% and returned with just under half a battery. The car indicated 123 miles remaining and fairly certain it could do that loop again. The only bad part is the $0.35 kwhr rates we pay which negates the savings over gas. It is still superior to ICE for that type of driving.
Certainly depends on speed and how you drive it, My 2020 Bolt went 300 miles from South Padre Island to Seguin Texas when I kept my speed at a max of 55mph and I probably had another 15 miles in the battery before running out. It was done as a test and I moved out of the way of traffic so I wasn't being a jerk in the way.
5.5hr vs 4.3hr plus charge time
Very impressive test.
Thanks!
Cool video especially since I just purchased a 22 Bolt EUV LT fully equipped. Wow do I love this car. I did hit 5.6mi/kw on my ride to work yesterday. As I am new with EVs I am learning the right way to drive and use the regen to its maximum potential. I do get both sides of the coin with ICE vs EV crowd. My thought on it is if your happy driving a 8 cylinder beast go for it I will not stop you. I don't understand why the hate has to be such an issue. I love EVs and you may hate them, but in the end does it really matter? My wife is not an EV fan, but she respects me for why I wanted one and I respect why she does not.
You got excellent efficiency. My 2017 Bolt gets closer to 3.9 mi/kWh.
My 2020 just got 4.8 mi/kWh today. 40 mile trip: 70 mph, 92 degrees, (a/c on). Conti pure contact tires 38 psi.
Speed and tire inflation are big factors. Also having anything attached to the outside of the vehicle like luggage racks will hurt efficiency
@@calvinwalker4654 I don't have anything attached, I run Nokian R3 tires at 38-40 psi, my commute is half 50 mph and half 72 mph.
@@SteveRoweI would guess that the 70 mph is dropping your efficiency. Nothing wrong with it, eVs are more sensitive to speed. EVs carry less energy than ICE cars and rely on the high efficiency for range.
Now I know you said the Tesla was better for long distance. But I have to tell you. The range on this Bolt is very impressive for a lot less money. I would really like to see both cars driven at the same time. They tried to do it on TFLev and guess what . The Bolt won .
I can’t do them both at the same time, they’re a bigger operation than me. But I do plan to do the same test with Tesla very soon.
@@SpinnerEV Just use 2 drivers 😉😉
I’ve found my Bolt EUV is quite efficient in mixed driving. With warm weather now, I’m seeing around 5 mi/kWh
I was over 5 before I got on the freeway the first time. By the time I exited it was down to 4.5 and pretty much stayed right around that.
I would have liked to see a hghway oriented range test. Most of the times when I would think about range would involve road tripping, as opposed to driving around town.
True, but there are already several videos from other creators that show that and I wanted this one to be a little different. I also have a few road trips on my channel. Efficiency goes down to about 3.6 or 3.7 mi/kWh with all highway driving in my experience.
When you're road tripping along a major highway, there's generally good enough DC fast charger coverage that range isn't that important - when the battery gets low, you just pull into a charger and charge up. When range still really does matter is when you travel in rural back roads with generally poor charger coverage away from interstates. Such back roads tend to have slower speeds, and also slowdowns for curves and towns. This tends to produce conditions very similar to what's shown in the video, making this a very useful test.
Also, highway-only range tests of Bolts has been done by many other TH-camrs numerous times, so I like the fact that this video is doing something different, rather than simply repeating what everybody else is doing.
I got 256 on my 23 EUV.
Maybe I missed it, did you say what the climate was set to? I remember getting over 300 miles last summer with literally everything turned off. My windows were cracked for keeping my cabin temperature down and I believe my efficiency was around 4.7mi/kwh, half highway driving 65mph and half county roads going between 35-50mph with about 7 stop lights. 300 has to be close to the limit, unless you’re able to maintain 30mph, then you can get like 400+ miles from a charge.
I don’t think I said, but climate was set at 72 degrees.
Very impressive consumption numbers. My model 3 rwd (LFP) lifetime so far is 242wh/mile (so about 4 miles/kwh) over 13k miles but that includes winter in the midwest.
I’ll be doing the same test with our Model 3 RWD LFP
Thank you for this.. so I assume it's safe to say you get a sold 8hr of travel time from this EV.. great to know.. then super charge about 2 hrs before able to continue... maybe.. can you test the chevy Silverado soon? This is great.. hope chevy has or will compensate you 🎉 we needed this for anyone considering buying
Never tried it, but I think you would get about three and a half hours to the first stop, then charge for 1 hour drive for 1 hour, repeat
The Bolt probably has the most conservative and/or the most accurate "Guess O Meter".
It was on this test
Love watching Bolt videos!
I live in So. Cal. and would like to get an EV. Hertz is selling a lot of rental 2023 EUV Bolts at about $15,000. arger
Some have low, 30 to 40,000 miles on them. I don't have home charger yet, electric company wants $5,000 to transfer cable to my front yard!!! I tyhink maybe with little driving that we do( retired) just plug or pay like EV GO.
I would highly recommend getting one. They are so much fun to drive. It’s not a road trip car. And if you can at all afford to have a level 2 charger put in (shop around for a better price from electrician)-definitely recommend that. It’s the best 2nd car there is.
@@davidtrebich4638 It will be a third car, we have a ford fusion hybird, and Mercury Grand Marquis.
California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Virginia have passed right-to-charge laws aiming to streamline the installation of residential community EV charging stations. Also, Illinois recently passed a right-to-charge law specific to new houses or multiunit buildings.
Every building has electricity, it's not rocket surgery to get it to your EV
Chevy bolt are still very capable Ev vehicle . Option for spare tire in future videos?
I can work on that.
I would like you to do the same test with the Fiat. Can it make one lap? One and a half?
The Fiat could easily do one lap. How much further is the question. I can add that test to the list.
Y'all are adorable.
EV's are a good idea in the city stop and go traffic. Highway not so much for long road trips. We have a long way to go until batteries start getting lighter and more efficient. For me it'd frustrating when the A/C is on and you instantly lose 30-40 miles!
He drove 260 in what looked like mostly highway driving. Sure it’s not ideal for a coast to coast driving trip but for what most people do this is more than capable
@@calvinwalker4654 Fair enough, if you compute and do a round trip of 150 a day it's ok
While the dashboard on a Bolt may make it seem as though turning on the A/C instantly costs you 30-40 miles of range, that's not actually what's happening.
What you're actually seeing is the car's software adjusting its range estimates to assume that the several-hours of driving it takes to run the battery down to zero will happen with the A/C on rather than off. The A/C itself uses almost no power in the couple seconds between when you turn it on and when the range estimator adjusts; but, over several hours of driving, the A/C power draw does add up, so a loss of 30-40 miles of range - under the assumption that the A/C stays on for the whole trip - is indeed what to expect.
You can see this for yourself by, once the guess-o-meter drops 30-40 miles, turning the A/C back off again and, low and behold, the 30-40 miles of range you thought you had lost instantly comes back! Again, shutting off the A/C has not put 30-40 miles worth of range into the battery, just like turning on the A/C has not taken 30-40 miles of range out of it. The only thing that has changed is the assumptions behind the software calculating your range estimates.
The fact that air conditioning consumes energy is also the case in every car out, including gas cars. If you fill up a gas car to full and drive it to empty, you *will* get less range if the A/C is on vs. if the A/C is off. The only difference is that most gas cars (particular older gas cars) don't bother to include range estimates that takes climate control settings into account, so you don't see the impact instantly on the dashboard and have to actually drive the car a bunch of miles and look at the fuel gauge in order to notice.
As to long road trips, the Bolt is not very representative of EV charging capabilities as, just about every other EV out there for sale charges much faster than a Bolt does. The point behind the Bolt is that it is significantly cheaper to buy than the faster-charging competition while still boasting 250+ miles of range, so if you don't need the super-fast charging, you don't have to pay for it. Myself, I'm personally of the opinion that, rather than spending thousands more on a car in order to get super-fast charging capabilities, you are better off just spending the money on airline tickets and rental cars.
@@kv1930 yeah if you’re constantly traveling cross country or towing then I would say stick with ICE.
I get nervous < 40%.
I watched this mostly for the dog.
She’s a star