I always see these kinds of
I always see these kinds of articles when writers are looking for something to complain about. It seems obvious to me that the Bolt was the first of it's kind, where GM was the first to offer a truly long range BEV for a relatively affordable price. Other than Tesla, the BEVs of 2013-2015 (when the Bolt was being designed) had ranges of between 55-90 miles, and only the Leaf and rare Mitubishi BEVs had faster than L2 charging, and those models had a proprietary plug, with few chargers anywhere, and charging quickly or too full could damage the batteries. So now it's 4 years later and there are a few new competitive, long range, sub $40K BEVs that have been out a few months, and we see this writer lay into GM for not offering what the brand new BEVs do. Most likely GM has been working on several planned updates that will compete with the latest BEVs, and even offering some new, better features as well. Competition breeds innovation, and that can only be good news for future BEV buyers. Tesla and VW are the next automakers poised to shake things up with BEVs, the Japanese automakers have great engineering capabilities, but they often take the safer route towards profitability, so I expect to see a larger push to electrify by building hybrids/PHEVs, but across their whole model lineup, offering a real EV impact on the market, but with less corporate risk. After killing the Volt, Chevy has almost no EVs to offer other than the Bolt, so I expect refreshes and design updates soon just to stay competitive.