We recently completed a 1,200 mile round trip in a Chevy Bolt EV. We drove from Bakersfield, California to Grants … Read more
Chevy Bolt
We’ve been driving electric for a decade now, and the emergency gear I carry has changed over that time. Most … Read more
August 2, 2025 Check against delivery at the 2 August 2025 Sierra Club’s Buena Vista Group breakfast at Hodels in … Read more
Who said you can’t take a road trip in a Chevy Bolt? Sure, by today’s standards its fast charging is downright pokey at 55 kW max. But if you know what you’re doing—and Way does—you can make it work.
See Way’s report on how and why he did it on YouTube at 2017 Chevy Bolt EV: Driving 1,000 Miles In A Day. Yes, he did it in one day—a long day, but one day driving from northern California to a new charging hub near LAX and back.
Since the advent of EVs, drivers have wondered how to use that big battery to power their home in an … Read more
We were on a road trip and pulled up to an EV Connect kiosk at Daniels Wood Land in Paso … Read more
Stopping to charge your EV on a road trip may seem an inconvenience to some, but not to us. True, … Read more
I’ve tracked battery degradation in the EVs we’ve driven during the past decade. The short answer is that our Nissan Leaf lost a lot, our Chevy Bolts not so much.
Since switching to the Bolts, we’ve traveled nearly 70,000 miles on three different batteries. Each battery has lost about 5% of its capacity over 20,000 to 30,000 miles. Importantly, this modest capacity loss hasn’t affected how we use the cars or how far we can drive them.
In mid March Nancy and I saddled up our Bolt EV and headed out to the Carrizo Plains National Monument … Read more
I’ve been telling anyone who will listen, “No one should buy any passenger car that gets less than 100 miles … Read more
