GM confirms Chevy Bolt will die this year, making way for electric pickups

Enlarge / Farewell Chevy Bolt, we’ll miss you. (credit: Steve Fecht for Chevrolet)

Expect the worst and you’ll never be disappointed, a pessimist once said. And boy is that ever true about General Motors, a company cursed with the ability to build great products and then doom them with business decisions. The latest casualty? One of our favorite electric vehicles, the Chevrolet Bolt.

During an early morning earnings call to report GM’s Q1 2023 results, CEO Mary Barra confirmed that production of both the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV (a stretched version) will cease later this year at its factory in Orion Township, Michigan.

The Bolt gets much less respect than it deserves. Tesla made a lot of noise about building an electric car for the masses in the mid-2010s, but it was GM that delivered. The Bolt made it to market before the Model 3, and other than some rather firm front seats, it was a very fine, if frill-free, EV.