the Chevy bolt is such an uninspired electric car that they brought the whole
industry and electric cars reputations back years is what I thought before I
actually drove one it turns out it's pretty great let's have a look
here we have the Chevy bolt euv so this
is the slightly larger one and if you want to remain entirely Anonymous while
you are on the road buy this thing I have never gotten so few looks in a car
before like I swear you could take an 11th gen Civic around and more people
are going to look at it than this thing now first of all uh the headlights they
suck so we have our drls right here these are your normal headlights uh
they're better than like you know standard non-led headlights for LED
headlights they suck uh don't buy this if there's a bunch of deer in your area
to be clear I think it's a fine looking car it's just nothing special also
nothing special the charging rate it's a 54 kilowatts which is kind of just
terrible when you compare it to the other stuff in the market like ionic
five just 300. the Saving Grace here
though is that we only have a 65 kilowatt hour battery which means at
least you can charge it up fairly fast even on a level 2 charger you can get a
good bit of juice into this thing I really like their selection of tires on
this first of all 17 inch rims I think the black ones look pretty good and also
you get plenty of sidewalls so many EVS have these great big 20 inch rims and it
rides like also nice we have these energy efficient
Michelin tires which are great because for one they give you more range and two
they are very quiet I was shocked at how
quiet this thing was going down the highway and then I realized like the
other cars around me you can hear those you just don't hear
this thing coming around the back there's enough
trunk space sort of if you look in here
you can fit your camera gear a couple backpacks but the Saving Grace of this
all is that down below the floor you get heaps more room the viewer that we got
this from actually said if you put the seats down you can fit four winter tires
side by side if it's just about perfectly one thing I find rather annoying is this
rear quarter panel I have this nice swoopy doopy here which if that's for
like occupant safety reasons shut up it's for occupant safety reasons fair
enough but I think it's just because they thought that this looked cool it
makes checking your blind spots a lot harder than it should be also every time
you walk away from it it beeps that's really annoying as well the rear seats
in the bolt are just large enough for me six feet tall I have about one finger
between my head and the ceiling that said though as long as you do fit it's
pretty great I have heaps of room for my legs and these seats are pretty darn
comfortable you even have a little uh a couple
of couplers very nice oh wow I even have rear seat Heating and a couple of
charging ports fancy popping into the balti UV oh
first of all you get a very throaty introduction and also there's enough
room here to fit a whole LTT water bottle in the side in here it is a car
the Chevy bolt euv does this amazing thing that every single other electric
car seems to stumble over it makes sense
oh I want to put it in Drive Let's uh pull the drive thing I want to change
the climate let's just touch the climate controls the buttons feel nice and good
that's something out of the eqs and Lucid air we're not able to do the
infotainment it just works it's very responsive say that you want Apple
carplay on your main screen boom just touch it drag it over totally
reorganizable so the stuff that you actually want to use is going to be in
you know the easy spots to access it this is excellent also we have Android
auto Apple carplay all of that great stuff it goes full screen and is
probably one of the best implementations that I've seen this being the premiere
package we do have these nice leather seats they have Heating and Cooling and
all of the electronic adjustments that you expect well lumbar is only in and
out I do kind of wish it had up and down as well but they are comfortable to fit
in they don't hold you in super good I do wish that there was a lot more
bolstering but these are very clearly Comfort orientated seats not sporty
before we set off piano block hate to
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all right let's do it foreign
bolt euv is surprisingly fun to drive as
long as you turn off traction control you can still get that nice you know EV
push just like it's not particularly quick this thing
has 200 horsepower 0-60 of I think 6.8
seconds it's faster than your Nan's
whatever your nan drives probably but like we're going onto the highway right
here I'm gonna pin it yeah so once you're above about 40 50
kilometers per hour the like electric hit kind of goes away that said
a lot of the people that drive this probably don't care about how fast it
goes when you're you know already at 120 kilometers per hour because they're just
not even going to bother driving it then so uh this has super Crews and this is a
super Cruise Road super cruise is GM's take on autopilot now it works by
mapping the roads and it works shockingly well like we're just ripping
down here right now and I have no qualms
like talking with my hands I would not do this in a Tesla I'm just looking at
the camera I am hardly looking in front of us and it is totally fun this is
coupled with the adaptive cruise in this being some of the best that I've ever
experienced up there with the likes of Audi and Toyota good job GM as far as a
car that allows you to on the highway just chop through the miles this is
really high up there for me the Michelin
tires as I mentioned before are nice and quiet suspension is surprisingly
comfortable this thing's only 3 600 pounds which is pretty heavy but that
also is like 1500 pounds lighter than
the vast majority of EVS out there which means that they don't have to get you
know super aggressive with the damping settings they can just let it you know
be set up pretty much like a normal car how you would expect super Cruise does
have the large problem that it only works on the super Cruise verified roads
like the ones that they have gone ahead and mapped so if supercruise is good or
not for you is totally dependent on do
you have super Crews on your daily commute if you don't have super crews in
your area uh don't buy it obviously it's like two and a half Grand totally not
worth it if you're not gonna use it that said in Canada all of the trans candle
is mapped a lot of random other little highways are mapped and a lot of the US
is mapped as well so there's a pretty good chance that your commute does have
super Cruise enabled and if it does I strongly recommend it that's the first
time I think I've ever enjoyed a self-driving before
like look oh super cruise is done that's it for this
highway I'm driving now okay this might be our only good corner here sport mode
traction control off
this thing Corners shockingly well and
also it's cool it's the tires a little bit probably is an LSD but suspension in
this thing is shockingly well set up like you can just hook it into a corner
the turn-in is surprisingly good for something like this on Corner exit you
know the tires sort of run at a grip but I feel like if you put some PS4s on this
thing you could go to the autocross and just embarrass some people in cars that
well you know would be incredibly embarrassed to get shredded by a bull
euv it's amazing we're having so much less weight in electric car will do for
you I guess while we're driving along here we have a listen to the sound system Andy property play crab rave
rap rape by noise storm sure sure playing on Spotify and this version
of the bolt euv we have the Bose sound system which has some of the most
comical bass I have ever heard in a car before let's look here uh I landed on
-6 minus seven for the base I'm just
gonna put it back to zero here
Sam our Labs engineer went ahead and tested this and it is hilarious at 40
Hertz this thing has plus 12 decibels at
you know zero on this screen it is
terrible sounding it's just boomy all that you hear is
when you turn it all the way down to -12
that is what we consider that like hits
our Target curve and our Target curve has plus 10 DB in the base range also
making things a little bit worse the tweeters aren't pointed at you they're
pointed directly in the treble and the
Sound Stage is fine here but when you move forward there's way better Imaging
when your head's like above the infotainment because of the way the tweeters are pointed that said though a
lot of this can be fixed by just simply turning it down I like about negative
seven because I'm a bass head a lot of people are gonna like it at -12 that
just fixes most of it loominess goes away and it's
very good like it's quite a good sound system for like a 50 000 Canadian car
another thing that's really good about this car is the range so you get almost
400 kilometers of range which given that
it's only a 65 kilowatt hour battery is
incredibly good this thing just sips electricity as you drive down the road
so excellent job there Chevy
Chevy bolt UV on one hand this car makes
me incredibly excited about the future of cars because like even though it's
not the most exciting compared to like other crossovers this thing is freaking
dramatic like go here oh
compared to like a slush box or a CVT
this transmission and powertrain is just
so so so much better and it just makes
driving a car like this a lot more fun than it currently would be if you get
like a Chevy Trax or whatever at the
same time for 50 000 Canadian dollars
this right here I think is the best
thirty five thousand dollar car for fifty thousand dollars
I really like this like as far as just a
simple commuter that takes you where you want to go it's very comfortable it's
nice and quiet it's peppy enough that you can have a little bit of fun every
now and then like you don't feel like you're just dreading driving it the
problem is is that for well the same amount of money you can get the base
high on the ironic five and the starting
version of this thing right here which is 40 Grand Canadian does not come with
adaptive cruise which in my mind it's a no-go for a car that's that expensive
you can get a Civic for what like
fifteen thousand dollars less that has adaptive cruise I guess the real thought
is how much do you care about if your
car is cool or not you know those like dads Andy yeah they almost take pride in
the practicality of their decisions this is one of those cars that you can
rationalize very practically being like it's quiet it's very comfortable well it
uses no gas so if you have cheap electricity and you have very expensive
gas like we do in BC here it could be very very practical but at the same time
like I said you're so close and priced the ionic 5. it's pretty hard to give
this thing a recommendation what it does do though is make me incredibly excited
to try out the lyric that's coming soon and as long as Chevy is able to keep the
sense making bits of the bolt and turn it you know as well into like the nice
full EV experience I think that's gonna be fantastic so hit
like get subscribed and let me know what you think of the Chevy bolt too boring
kind of cool I think a lot of people would really
like this like my dad would probably
really like this car but at the same time like God it's
boring