Hacker News Reader

Comment by alephnerd | Hacker News Reader

The Bolt was discontinued and hasn't been restarted yet.

The Mini Cooper SE is also being discontinued.

Your comments seem to be non-sequiturs to me. You stated "The lack of affordable daily driver EVs is what's slowing down adoption here in the US."

So why do you think the two most affordable EV options in the US were discontinued? I don't think it's because they were flying out of the showrooms.

There's also Leaf, and here again it's ignored like it never existed.

I suspect what these people actually wants is 2024 Mediocrity, which Leaf, Bolt, Mini Cooper, etc., are not as they're all hatchbacks, which isn't the mentally defaultest style of a automobile, but Tesla is.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_(advertising_campai...

It was discontinued because it turns out that affordable EVs aren’t actually what Americans want.

https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-ev

looks like bolt is still here

Discontinued doesn't mean unavailable. I thought it was cancelled as well and took a look at Wikipedia. According to that source there will be a new model at some indeterminate point in the future.

There is no production line for the current generation bolts. They're building a production line for a new architecture (MY2025+), but there are some significant changes to that design that many people might consider negative (e.g. lack of Android Auto/carplay) alongside the standard risks of buying a first generation architecture.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com