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the Chevy bolt is such an uninspired electric car that they brought the whole

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industry and electric cars reputations back years is what I thought before I

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actually drove one it turns out it's pretty great let's have a look

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here we have the Chevy bolt euv so this

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is the slightly larger one and if you want to remain entirely Anonymous while

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you are on the road buy this thing I have never gotten so few looks in a car

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before like I swear you could take an 11th gen Civic around and more people

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are going to look at it than this thing now first of all uh the headlights they

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suck so we have our drls right here these are your normal headlights uh

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they're better than like you know standard non-led headlights for LED

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headlights they suck uh don't buy this if there's a bunch of deer in your area

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to be clear I think it's a fine looking car it's just nothing special also

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nothing special the charging rate it's a 54 kilowatts which is kind of just

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terrible when you compare it to the other stuff in the market like ionic

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five just 300. the Saving Grace here

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though is that we only have a 65 kilowatt hour battery which means at

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least you can charge it up fairly fast even on a level 2 charger you can get a

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good bit of juice into this thing I really like their selection of tires on

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this first of all 17 inch rims I think the black ones look pretty good and also

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you get plenty of sidewalls so many EVS have these great big 20 inch rims and it

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rides like also nice we have these energy efficient

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Michelin tires which are great because for one they give you more range and two

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they are very quiet I was shocked at how

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quiet this thing was going down the highway and then I realized like the

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other cars around me you can hear those you just don't hear

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this thing coming around the back there's enough

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trunk space sort of if you look in here

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you can fit your camera gear a couple backpacks but the Saving Grace of this

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all is that down below the floor you get heaps more room the viewer that we got

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this from actually said if you put the seats down you can fit four winter tires

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side by side if it's just about perfectly one thing I find rather annoying is this

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rear quarter panel I have this nice swoopy doopy here which if that's for

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like occupant safety reasons shut up it's for occupant safety reasons fair

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enough but I think it's just because they thought that this looked cool it

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makes checking your blind spots a lot harder than it should be also every time

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you walk away from it it beeps that's really annoying as well the rear seats

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in the bolt are just large enough for me six feet tall I have about one finger

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between my head and the ceiling that said though as long as you do fit it's

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pretty great I have heaps of room for my legs and these seats are pretty darn

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comfortable you even have a little uh a couple

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of couplers very nice oh wow I even have rear seat Heating and a couple of

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charging ports fancy popping into the balti UV oh

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first of all you get a very throaty introduction and also there's enough

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room here to fit a whole LTT water bottle in the side in here it is a car

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the Chevy bolt euv does this amazing thing that every single other electric

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car seems to stumble over it makes sense

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oh I want to put it in Drive Let's uh pull the drive thing I want to change

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the climate let's just touch the climate controls the buttons feel nice and good

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that's something out of the eqs and Lucid air we're not able to do the

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infotainment it just works it's very responsive say that you want Apple

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carplay on your main screen boom just touch it drag it over totally

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reorganizable so the stuff that you actually want to use is going to be in

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you know the easy spots to access it this is excellent also we have Android

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auto Apple carplay all of that great stuff it goes full screen and is

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probably one of the best implementations that I've seen this being the premiere

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package we do have these nice leather seats they have Heating and Cooling and

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all of the electronic adjustments that you expect well lumbar is only in and

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out I do kind of wish it had up and down as well but they are comfortable to fit

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in they don't hold you in super good I do wish that there was a lot more

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bolstering but these are very clearly Comfort orientated seats not sporty

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before we set off piano block hate to

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see it all over around here all over up here we just microfibrate it so it

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doesn't look too bad right now but in a day it will once again stop making them

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car makers yeah stop doing it let's drive before that though let me tell you

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all right let's do it foreign

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bolt euv is surprisingly fun to drive as

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long as you turn off traction control you can still get that nice you know EV

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push just like it's not particularly quick this thing

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has 200 horsepower 0-60 of I think 6.8

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seconds it's faster than your Nan's

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whatever your nan drives probably but like we're going onto the highway right

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here I'm gonna pin it yeah so once you're above about 40 50

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kilometers per hour the like electric hit kind of goes away that said

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a lot of the people that drive this probably don't care about how fast it

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goes when you're you know already at 120 kilometers per hour because they're just

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not even going to bother driving it then so uh this has super Crews and this is a

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super Cruise Road super cruise is GM's take on autopilot now it works by

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mapping the roads and it works shockingly well like we're just ripping

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down here right now and I have no qualms

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like talking with my hands I would not do this in a Tesla I'm just looking at

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the camera I am hardly looking in front of us and it is totally fun this is

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coupled with the adaptive cruise in this being some of the best that I've ever

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experienced up there with the likes of Audi and Toyota good job GM as far as a

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car that allows you to on the highway just chop through the miles this is

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really high up there for me the Michelin

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tires as I mentioned before are nice and quiet suspension is surprisingly

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comfortable this thing's only 3 600 pounds which is pretty heavy but that

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also is like 1500 pounds lighter than

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the vast majority of EVS out there which means that they don't have to get you

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know super aggressive with the damping settings they can just let it you know

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be set up pretty much like a normal car how you would expect super Cruise does

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have the large problem that it only works on the super Cruise verified roads

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like the ones that they have gone ahead and mapped so if supercruise is good or

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not for you is totally dependent on do

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you have super Crews on your daily commute if you don't have super crews in

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your area uh don't buy it obviously it's like two and a half Grand totally not

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worth it if you're not gonna use it that said in Canada all of the trans candle

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is mapped a lot of random other little highways are mapped and a lot of the US

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is mapped as well so there's a pretty good chance that your commute does have

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super Cruise enabled and if it does I strongly recommend it that's the first

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time I think I've ever enjoyed a self-driving before

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like look oh super cruise is done that's it for this

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highway I'm driving now okay this might be our only good corner here sport mode

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traction control off

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this thing Corners shockingly well and

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also it's cool it's the tires a little bit probably is an LSD but suspension in

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this thing is shockingly well set up like you can just hook it into a corner

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the turn-in is surprisingly good for something like this on Corner exit you

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know the tires sort of run at a grip but I feel like if you put some PS4s on this

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thing you could go to the autocross and just embarrass some people in cars that

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well you know would be incredibly embarrassed to get shredded by a bull

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euv it's amazing we're having so much less weight in electric car will do for

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you I guess while we're driving along here we have a listen to the sound system Andy property play crab rave

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rap rape by noise storm sure sure playing on Spotify and this version

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of the bolt euv we have the Bose sound system which has some of the most

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comical bass I have ever heard in a car before let's look here uh I landed on

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-6 minus seven for the base I'm just

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gonna put it back to zero here

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Sam our Labs engineer went ahead and tested this and it is hilarious at 40

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Hertz this thing has plus 12 decibels at

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you know zero on this screen it is

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terrible sounding it's just boomy all that you hear is

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when you turn it all the way down to -12

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that is what we consider that like hits

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our Target curve and our Target curve has plus 10 DB in the base range also

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making things a little bit worse the tweeters aren't pointed at you they're

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pointed directly in the treble and the

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Sound Stage is fine here but when you move forward there's way better Imaging

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when your head's like above the infotainment because of the way the tweeters are pointed that said though a

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lot of this can be fixed by just simply turning it down I like about negative

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seven because I'm a bass head a lot of people are gonna like it at -12 that

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just fixes most of it loominess goes away and it's

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very good like it's quite a good sound system for like a 50 000 Canadian car

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another thing that's really good about this car is the range so you get almost

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400 kilometers of range which given that

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it's only a 65 kilowatt hour battery is

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incredibly good this thing just sips electricity as you drive down the road

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so excellent job there Chevy

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Chevy bolt UV on one hand this car makes

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me incredibly excited about the future of cars because like even though it's

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not the most exciting compared to like other crossovers this thing is freaking

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dramatic like go here oh

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compared to like a slush box or a CVT

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this transmission and powertrain is just

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so so so much better and it just makes

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driving a car like this a lot more fun than it currently would be if you get

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like a Chevy Trax or whatever at the

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same time for 50 000 Canadian dollars

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this right here I think is the best

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thirty five thousand dollar car for fifty thousand dollars

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I really like this like as far as just a

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simple commuter that takes you where you want to go it's very comfortable it's

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nice and quiet it's peppy enough that you can have a little bit of fun every

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now and then like you don't feel like you're just dreading driving it the

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problem is is that for well the same amount of money you can get the base

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high on the ironic five and the starting

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version of this thing right here which is 40 Grand Canadian does not come with

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adaptive cruise which in my mind it's a no-go for a car that's that expensive

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you can get a Civic for what like

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fifteen thousand dollars less that has adaptive cruise I guess the real thought

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is how much do you care about if your

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car is cool or not you know those like dads Andy yeah they almost take pride in

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the practicality of their decisions this is one of those cars that you can

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rationalize very practically being like it's quiet it's very comfortable well it

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uses no gas so if you have cheap electricity and you have very expensive

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gas like we do in BC here it could be very very practical but at the same time

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like I said you're so close and priced the ionic 5. it's pretty hard to give

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this thing a recommendation what it does do though is make me incredibly excited

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to try out the lyric that's coming soon and as long as Chevy is able to keep the

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sense making bits of the bolt and turn it you know as well into like the nice

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full EV experience I think that's gonna be fantastic so hit

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like get subscribed and let me know what you think of the Chevy bolt too boring

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kind of cool I think a lot of people would really

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like this like my dad would probably

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really like this car but at the same time like God it's

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boring