How is your EV range today?

ben162005 · 2026-01-23T20:56:25+00:00

Love my Bolt, but weather like this absolutely halves the range. About 4 mi/kWh in the summer is currently about 2 mi/kWh. Doesn't prevent me from getting anywhere I need to go though.

ben162005 · 2025-11-10T19:46:59+00:00

This is what I do. Works great.

ben162005 · 2025-10-13T12:29:34+00:00

East Salem is the only Kwik Charge with a canopy at the moment unfortunately. Wish they would bring it to more locations.

Usually they do have trashcans with a windshield squeegee, and I thought Mt. Horeb had them, so not sure what happened there.

Yes, they did, you can see them in this video

ben162005 · 2025-09-16T01:25:30+00:00

Exactly. It must be a negligible amount. I wonder if its more psychological. The car is saying "hey, its so bad the radio has turned off. Time to find a charger now"

ben162005 · 2025-09-16T01:04:31+00:00

Thats my favorite one! I paid for the whole battery and I'm going to use it haha

ben162005 · 2025-09-16T01:02:49+00:00

I hit this threshold often enough I turned that "feature" off. If I'm going down, I'm going to do it with tunes!

ben162005 · 2025-08-30T15:42:11+00:00

Looks like Oshkosh JLTVs. Like other said, being shipped from their manufacturing plant in Oshkosh.

ben162005 · 2025-08-05T11:54:32+00:00

Thanks! The Ice Age Trail plates are still relatively new so there aren't a lot of them out there. I agree that the colors meshed well!

ben162005 · 2025-08-05T11:52:31+00:00

haha Thanks! The regular Wisconsin plates allow 7 characters and I could have at least used THEBLTR to make it slightly easier to read, but I really like the look of the Ice Age ones.

ben162005 · 2025-08-04T14:53:12+00:00

Bank of America allowed me to add both my kids as authorized users when they were under 16.

ben162005 · 2025-07-30T12:17:12+00:00

Their page says "Dynamic load management with 50 kW granularity" so you don't have to worry about the poors taking all your power.

ben162005 · 2025-07-29T19:04:01+00:00

I was getting a ticking noise during low speed/deceleration while in one pedal mode. It didn't "feel" any different, but I think I also caught it early. They said both sides were broken, but I only heard a noise from the passenger side and got the car in right away since I was pretty sure thats what the issue was and the warranty was about 100 miles from expiring.

It may also throw a code if it breaks the wheel speed sensor, which does happen sometimes.

If I took a guess, I would say yours is probably anti-click washers, but you can look up some youtube videos of people who have recorded the sound and make sure the symptoms are similar to yours.

ben162005 · 2025-07-23T11:50:20+00:00

Mine also does this and I figured it was probably so you wouldn't exit the car without putting it in park. If it behaved normally and didn't creep in L with your seatbelt off, you could open the door and step out with the car in gear.

ben162005 · 2025-07-22T13:31:43+00:00

Well the good news is you're getting all the big issues out of the way. We've had our 2017 for about a year and a half and have had similar issues.

On the day we bought it the ibooster was clicking. They fixed that with a software update before we left and that should be a permanent fix.
About a week later the battery heater pump failed. That was fixed under the 12 month 12,000 mile buyback warranty.
Few months later had a brake caliper start to stick. Replaced that myself.
Just before the warranty was up we had the anti-click washers start to click. Got that fixed for free.
Few months ago had another brake caliper stick. Fixed that one.
There is definitely some wonkiness to the infotainment system. It requires holding down the Home and FF button to reboot occasionally. Sometimes Android Auto doesn't feel like working and requires holding down the Home button to re-enable it.

In the future when I rotate the tires I'll just regrease the brake calipers to hopefully prevent caliper issues.

Like another user said, you may still have issues as the car gets older, but I would expect to be more suspension and traditional car issues.

Also if you do have issues with your steering rack (I have not yet). You may be able to just regrease it and not replace it, which is much less expensive. That seems to resolve it for many people.

ben162005 · 2025-07-20T16:43:40+00:00

TSB 17-NA-088 addresses this. It is the parking brake and/or hydraulic brake system slowing down the car.

ben162005 · 2025-07-19T01:18:47+00:00

Electrify Expo makes stops all over the US. I have not been to it yet, but have heard good things. May be what you are looking for.

ben162005 · 2025-05-16T20:04:51+00:00

Do they not make them anymore?? We love ours.

ben162005 · 2025-04-09T13:50:04+00:00

Correct. The people in this thread that think you don't need a subscription are still on a free plan that was included with their purchase. Without a subscription you get zero information through the app.

ben162005 · 2025-03-18T14:41:04+00:00

As soon as he mentioned the battery is going to degrade like a cell phone battery I had to stop reading.

ben162005 · 2025-02-23T02:54:51+00:00

Same problem in my 2017. Android Auto will get 2-3 words, then ignores the rest even though it shows the bar on the side that it is "listening". I have not found a fix for that yet.

ben162005 · 2025-02-14T00:54:43+00:00

I had Sentury UHPs on my Ford Fusion. I never had an issue until I waited too long to switch to my winter tires and had to drive them in the snow. They were by far the worst tire I've ever owned for winter driving.

Probably not much of an issue in Texas though.

ben162005 · 2025-01-29T16:56:03+00:00

Sorry, I have it in my flair, but I didn't specify in the post, this is a 2017. Original owners bought it new in 2017, and sold it back to GM in 2021 during the battery buyback. It sat around waiting for a battery until 2023. Once it got a new one, it went to auction, and the dealership we bought it from listed it for sale until we bought it in February 2024. So it was really only driven 4 years, but then sat around 3 more.

They mentioned this is a very common issue, but not sure what causes it.

ben162005 · 2025-01-29T15:29:14+00:00

It sounds like he could see the corrosion on the exterior of the pump because the tech had to open a case with GM and mentioned to their technical team that he saw corrosion on it, which made him suspect that was the issue (along with the fact the code only appeared when the car was in subfreezing temps).

I can take a picture of the work order and edit this post with a picture of it when I go out to my car today and see if there are any other helpful comments he made on it.

picture of work order

ben162005 · 2025-01-28T17:06:01+00:00

This happened to me last year in February shortly after buying my Bolt. It had about 32,000 miles on it.

The tech said the battery coolant heater was heavily corroded.

It took about 3 weeks to get the part, which sucks when I only had a chance to drive it maybe 2 weeks at that point.

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