Would You Drive This? The most affordable long range EV sold in the US

This is really only applicable to people with working electricity outside of Texas.

Would you drive this? Redesigned Chevy Bolt with a $31,000 price tag. It can charge from 0 to full in about 8 hours at home, and go about 259 miles on a charge (250 if you get the slightly larger version). It can also use public rapid charging network for a much faster charge (100 miles of charge in 30 minutes).

It also has the industry's best autonomous driving system, borrowed from Cadillac (Super Cruise). It used lidar mapping to keep the car dead center of the lane along with the standard suite of cameras and other autonomous driving features. For all divided highways, it's a fully hands free experience - something not even Tesla offers on their most expensive car.

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2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV Adds a Crossover Body to the Bolt Lineup

A new companion to the Chevrolet Bolt EV, the 2022 Bolt EUV puts a slightly larger body on the same platform without sacrificing too much range. This latest EV from GM isn't built on the company's new Ultium platform, but it will be the first Chevy product to get the hands-free Super Cruise driver-assistance package, as well as the first EV with Super Cruise to go on sale, ahead of the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq EV and GMC Hummer EV.

The Bolt EUV hits the market looking nearly identical to the smaller Bolt EV hatchback. The two vehicles borrow some of the design cues from the previous generation. But overall the EUV's more aggressive angles borrow heavily from the 2021 Blazer.

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With a length of 169.5 inches, the 2022 Bolt EUV crossover is six inches longer than the 2022 Bolt EV. Chevy says that translates into an additional three inches of rear legroom. At 63.6 inches tall and 69.7 inches wide, the electric crossover is only 0.2 inch both wider and taller than the Bolt hatchback. Even that amount of extra legroom does cut into cargo space. Despite its larger size, the EUV has slightly less storage space than the Bolt EV at 16.3 cubic feet with seats up, versus the hatchback's 16.6. Overall cargo space with the seats down in the Bolt EUV is 56.9 cubic feet compared with the Bolt hatchback's 57.0 cubic feet. Both vehicles beat the 2021 Kona Electric's 45.8 cubic feet of cargo space and the 2020 Kia Niro EV's 53.0, but both lose to the Ford Mustang Mach-E's 59.7 cubic feet of space behind the front seats.

Inside, Chevy has ditched the slightly futuristic interior found in the current Bolt EV for something more contemporary and comfortable-looking. The automaker made the change after receiving feedback from current Bolt owners. Instead, other than the digital layout in the dash cluster that is EV focused, the interior resembles the rest of the GM lineup with a few triangle flourishes in the dash and seats. A standard 10.2-inch display houses the infotainment system. Support for wireless connections to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto is standard, as is wireless smartphone charging (which is optional on the Bolt EV hatchback).

Both the Bolt EUV and Bolt EV sit on the same BEV2 platform used in the outgoing Bolt and even have the same motor and battery. The result is 250 miles of range for the Bolt EUV from the same 65.0-kWh battery pack found in the electric hatchback. The smaller Bolt EV beats it by nine miles.

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Note. The one with the excellent Super Cruise autonomous driving system will be more expensive than the base model that will be advertised everywhere. And yes, the system is objectively better than Tesla's autopilot in highway settings because of the lidar mapping that's absent in the Tesla. To counter, some versions of Tesla's autopilot can now recognize stop lights which is pretty darn impressive in mixed driving.

Link to the full Car and Driver article is at the top of page.

Sorry Texas. If you have this car (or the new Mustang Mach E, Tesla Model 3, or Cybertruck), you can't charge at home now because you guys don't know how to provide electricity in cold weather.