2026 Chevy Bolt EV might be most inexpensive US EV

When the Chevrolet Bolt EV returns subsequent 12 months it is going to be probably the most inexpensive EV within the U.S., Marissa West, president of Normal Motors North America, stated in a just lately printed interview with Automotive Information.

GM discontinued the Bolt EV on the finish of 2023 however has since then emphasised it is coming again. The subsequent-generation Bolt EV will share Ultium underpinnings with different GM EVs, offering the size essential to realize a low value level, in keeping with West.

2022 Chevrolet Bolt EV

“We’re actually excited to get the Bolt with the Ultium structure underpinnings to have probably the most inexpensive car in the marketplace by 2025,” West stated, including that the Ultium underpinnings will afford “nice vary” and a “actually good charging time.”

GM has confirmed that the next-generation Bolt EV might be constructed at GM’s Fairfax Meeting plant in Kansas—beginning in late 2025, which nearly definitely makes it a 2026 mannequin primarily based on GM’s model-year cadence. On the Kansas plant it replaces the gasoline Chevy Malibu midsize sedan that’s now winding down manufacturing. It is resulting from construct a “low-cost” model of the Bolt EV with LFP battery cells, and GM has indicated it is going to be the primary Ultium product within the U.S. to make use of that chemistry.

2018 Chevrolet Bolt EV

The Bolt EV was launched as a 2017 mannequin, and on the time was thought of a significant coup for EV affordability. A 2022 model-year revamp made the Bolt EV a greater car, and added a Bolt EUV variant to the lineup.

The Bolt EV’s legacy is not unblemished, although. A 2021 recall finally spanned roughly 140,000 Bolt EV and Bolt EUV automobiles in North America after two particular manufacturing defects in battery cells provided by GM accomplice LG Power Answer led to many fires. GM changed battery modules—and even total packs—in some vehicles, whereas different house owners bought as much as $1,400 as a part of a category motion settlement towards GM and LG.