We recently drove our 2027 Chevy Bolt—the “new” Bolt—1,520 miles to Grants Pass, Oregon and environs from Bakersfield, California to … Read more
Electric Vehicles
Edmunds cars YouTube.com channel has confirmed that the 2027 Chevy Bolt has more range than advertised. The feature by Brian … Read more
While giving a presentation on how to use EVs in front of an oil industry friendly audience of retirees, I … Read more
We just completed a 1,500 mile road trip in our 2027 Chevy Bolt and had plenty of opportunity to compare … Read more
We just completed a 1,500 mile road trip to Oregon and back from Bakersfield, California. In comparison to the old … Read more
Paul Gipe had spent four decades studying and writing about the clean energy transition. As a renewable energy analyst and author, he will tell you there has never been a better time to own an electric car. When Chevrolet delivered his 2027 Bolt in February 2026, he approached it the same way he approaches everything: with data. (Note that this is a sponsored piece. I was not paid by anyone. My comments are from my web site.)
The Hormuz crisis is a reminder of what concentrated energy dependence costs. The EV transition does not need it. The learning curve keeps falling, the platform keeps compounding, the economics keep improving. That is what makes this wave different.
Most of us have forgotten how the Big Three snookered the Obama administration into creating two classes of fuel economy standards — one for passenger cars and another for light trucks. In theory, the light truck provision was to benefit farmers who needed them to get their goods to market, but the automakers used that exception to create a whole new class of vehicles that were never intended to work for a living,
The SUV originally was little more than a pickup truck with a passenger car body on top. The companies promised the Obamans they would use the bailouts offered them to build new fuel efficient small cars, but as soon as the ink was dry, they forgot all about those promises and went full tilt boogie into cranking out high end pickups and SUVs.
Since receiving our 2027 Chevy Bolt 20 February, I’ve noticed an odd noise at low power levels, upon deceleration, or … Read more
We drove to Los Angeles from Bakersfield to meet a friend for lunch Sunday. That may not sound like much … Read more
