If this was happening to all EV owners we would be seeing them all complaining about it, yet this is an article about one person not a poll showing this is happening widely.
> John Lewis Financial Services told us: “Our underwriter has temporarily paused offering new policies and renewals on fully electric vehicles while they analyse the risks and costs entailed. This decision does not affect any existing policies in force, or hybrid vehicles.”
Go right this second and try to find the cheapest EV with the $7500 tax subsidy and it’s still $10000 more than a comparable gas car.
Do the math on solar panel installs and it barely makes sense even with the subsidies, and you are only 1 sudden roof replacement away from making it all worthless.
Wind is being renegotiated / written off on the East Coast.
Yes, if we dump trillions of dollars into this tech and squint really hard it might make sense. But it’s pretty dismal.
https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a43699126/gm-can...
I know a guy who owned a Volt for years and it was a total piece of shit.
Two, that article is old news as it was a short lived decision that GM reversed https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190569344/chevy-bolt-electri...
Remains to be seen how long they'll be boltless before the new platform version is available, and they haven't said anything about pricing yet.
I'm sure parent commenter is aware the Bolt and Volt are different cars, but it's perfectly valid to look at Chevy's other products to set your expectations for new ones. They don't have a reputation for reliability.
It is valid to look at Chevy's other products, and the LG battery problems with the Bolt were unfortunate. OP's anecdote about the Volt may be valid, but using the Volt as an example of Chevy's reliability is the worst thing you could do as the reviews for it were phenomenal and punching well above Chevy's typical prowess. That car is a very practical, affordable, emissions saving, plug in hybrid.
On the Blazer EV they've killed the base trim before the car even comes out, AWD 2LT will start at $56,715, pricing on the non AWD 2LT remains unknown but is probably over $50k.
One of the Bolt's revenue streams has been selling emissions credits to other manufacturers, with the Bolt having been the US's best selling non-Tesla EV, and most car manufacturers not having a particularly good fleet of low emissions vehicles here. That's going to start drying up as more manufacturers bring more EVs to market, so the Bolt will need to be priced to be profitable on its own.
https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/selli...
If I had to guess, the Equinox will land in the high 30k's (if its 1LT trim makes it to production) and the Bolt will be more like $34k, compared to current pricing starting at $26.5k. Affordable for an EV, but puts the base trim of a Bolt around the top trim of a Prius.
Whose anecdotes win here?
Easy to presume: it was being compared to a car that cost more than $14k USD?
Wind is averaging 30.2% of the yearly power production of the Uk and its growing fast. There are numerous solar arrays going up across the country beyond just the home projects which are currently running at 200k homes a year, its limited by installers not demand. The most important stat really is that 4x the current Uk power demand of Solar projects is currently held up on grid upgrades which will take us through to 2035. That alone with some battery storage will be more than enough. This transition in the Uk is happening and fast and all the economics show its because green power is cheaper than fossil fuels and nuclear power.
They also claim that batteries are expensive to replace, but if I can buy a nearly new second hand car for next to nothing, why would I buy a brand new expensive battery?
Why are the US writing off wind? We generate a huge amount of electricity from wind in Scotland. Is it not windy is the US?
If. This doesn't sound like it will foment a healthy used car market, at least not one that's anything like used ICE.