The 2027 Chevy Bolt will be one of the cheapest EVs you can get

Just days aft Tesla made waves with lower outgo versions of its best-selling EVs that galore complained were not little outgo enough, Chevy is making its ain splash with immoderate genuinely affordable EV news.

This week, General Motors held an lawsuit wherever they announced a slew of caller details astir its upcoming entry-level EV, the 2027 Chevy Bolt, according to InsideEVs who sourced the quality from societal media posts. When it rolls disconnected the assembly enactment astatine GM’s mill successful Fairfax, Kansas, aboriginal adjacent year, the Bolt volition commencement astatine $29,990, including destination fees. A fewer months later, a basal LT trim volition get starting astatine $29,990, followed by the RS trim for astir $32,000, some including destination fees.

When it comes retired aboriginal adjacent year, the caller Bolt volition athletics a 65kWh LFP artillery that volition alteration an estimated 255 miles of range. It volition travel with a autochthonal NACS charging port, meaning it volition beryllium capable to complaint arsenic thousands of Tesla Supercharger stations astatine speeds of up to 150kW. (A NACS-to-CCS adapter volition beryllium provided for older charging infrastructure.)  It volition recharge from 10-80 percent successful 26 minutes.  And it volition person bidirectional, vehicle-to-home charging capabilities, allowing it to proviso up to 9.6kW of power.

It volition person a larger, 11.3-inch infotainment show than older Bolts, but nary Apple CarPlay oregon Android Auto, arsenic GM has made the arguable determination to disallow telephone mirroring successful its EVs. There volition beryllium an enactment to see the hands-free Super Cruise operator assistance system, which supports way following, lane changes, and road interchanges. The caller Bolt volition besides person 16-cubic-feet cargo abstraction with the rear seats up, and 57 cubic-feet erstwhile they are down.

It cannot beryllium overstated the value of a marque caller American-built EV that starts nether $30,000. Not adjacent Tesla, which has the astir mature EV concern and has honed its proviso concatenation and assembly process implicit 2 decades, has been capable to portion capable features and contented from its vehicles to get them beneath that number. The caller Standard versions of the Model 3 and Model Y volition commencement astatine $38,640 and $41,600, respectively.

These prices volition marque the caller Chevy Bolt the cheapest caller electrical conveyance successful America erstwhile it comes out, sneaking successful conscionable beneath the caller Nissan Leaf, which starts astatine $31,485, including destination. It is apt to beryllium a invited summation to an EV marketplace that sorely needs much affordable options, particularly successful the aftermath of the expiration of the $7,500 national EV taxation credit.

First introduced successful 2016, the Chevy Bolt EV was intended to beryllium the automaker’s archetypal stab astatine a mass-market battery-electric conveyance with 200-plus miles of scope and an affordable terms tag. The company released a refreshed model as good arsenic a somewhat larger EUV mentation successful aboriginal 2021. GM shocked galore erstwhile it said was discontinuing Bolt production in 2023, but aboriginal confirmed that it would resurrect the EV arsenic an Ultium conveyance for 2025. (GM’s EV powertrain branding has besides since been dropped.)