Kermit wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:30 am
It would be nice if Chevy made a car in the price point of the Spark EV but {the Bolt} costs twice what a spark does and it's of similar quality.
Actually, with all the special price reductions being handed out by GM, I have heard of people getting "Premium" (high end model) Bolts for around $32-35K (before fed tax credit). That is just a bit more ($4-7k) more than the MSRP of the Spark back in 2016 ($28K). Of course, that's still 4 times what I paid for my used Spark EV last year ...
I would like to see Chevy provide something equivalent to the Bolt, but with a smaller battery (maybe 30-35 kWh) at the MSRP of the Spark EV (around $28K). Heck, it could be the Bolt, just with a smaller battery. I don't need a 250-mile range car and I don't want to haul around the extra weight or pay for the (expensive) batteries that I don't need. 140 miles would work just fine for me about 95% of the time. I am only putting about 3500 miles annually on my gasmobile as it is, with 140 miles of range that would probably drop to about 1500, all of them highway miles (at 38 mpg) for longer trips.