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Chevy isn't mentioned because they figured out how to make the Bolt.
The bolt wasn't a profitable car. They used it to learn and get to the profitable vehicles they are making today.
They're making profitable EVs? This is Chevrolet you're talking right? I said the bolt was good not profitable. Profitable is high margin garbage sold to morons, literally Tesla. And I'm not so much as riding in one of those piles of shit.
I believe the newer models are profitable yes, although not highly. And they still haven't covered the cost of all the R&D, but selling a vehicle profitably, is the first step to that.
And yes, for what it was, the Bolt was good, its main drawback being the lack of high speed charging, but for a lot of people that was fine.
Q2 2025: 33 sold in US, 4 in Canada.
Lemmy is weird, everyone says they want EVs, but when they were available, no one bought them.
Bolt was here, small efficient EV, but nah, they sold 33 in 2025. Ford F150 sold 828,000.
bUt wHy dOeSnT FoRd mAkE aN eV?
Again, you are quoting sales of a car that was discontinued 2 years before your sales numbers.
In 2023, the year the Bolt was discontinued, they sold 23,000 Bolts. Yes, that's far fewer than F150 numbers, but it is more than all EVs sold in the US by Audi and BMW combined in 2023. It sold more than any other EV besides Tesla.
But yeah, keep using the Bolt as an example for why cheap EVs don't sell.
Who knows if I would have bought one, I was never able to find one at a dealership to even look at.
Not sure what your point is, all of us 33 Lemmy users bought one!
That's less to do with the car and more infrastructure. It's a good cheap car but people who need cheap cars in the US and Canada can't charge them easily. Teslas and ford lightning on the other hand are all purchased by people with houses where they can charge an EV
I bought an EV but yeah I'm an outlier and even I didn't want it I just wanted to use my bike but owning a vehicle is written into my employment contract