[p7wang]

Chinese version with a crossover look.

Chevy Bolt Turns Into Buick Velite 7 Electric Crossover For China

Images provide a glimpse of the Buick Velite 7, which is a new, Bolt-based electric crossover that's arriving soon in China.

www.motor1.com

 

[GJETSON]

It doesn't look as ugly without the camouflage. As long as they don't screw anything else up, I could live with that grill. Does every car now have to have shark gills?

 

[Boltsport]

Chinese version with a crossover look.

Chevy Bolt Turns Into Buick Velite 7 Electric Crossover For China

Images provide a glimpse of the Buick Velite 7, which is a new, Bolt-based electric crossover that's arriving soon in China.

www.motor1.com

Buick has a big market in China for SUVs.
It's interesting Toyota is also marketing an all electric Prius in China, which is not being sold in the US.
That may be because the Chinese govt has mandated all electric cars in China, and the foreign markets in Japan and the US are responding.

 

[p7wang]

Buick has a big market in China for SUVs.
It's interesting Toyota is also marketing an all electric Prius in China, which is not being sold in the US.
That may be because the Chinese govt has mandated all electric cars in China, and the foreign markets in Japan and the US are responding.

Because in the US, corporations can lie as long as they pay kickback to the politicians. Why get an EV when you can get one that self-charge / no need to plug in? haha

Toyota's 'self-charging hybrid' ad is banned in Norway, deemed a lie

Toyota has a history of creating misleading electric-vehicle advertising, especially with its “self-charging hybrid” ad campaign. Norway has now banned...

electrek.co

 

[davioh2001]

Is this another EV for China only like Chevy Menlo ?

 

[Pigwich]

Yeah something like... what was it? 20 new EV models by 2023, 19 of which you won't be able to buy in the US?

When, 10 years from now, my poor 2017 Bolt, with the headliner drooping, seats torn, no charge door, windshield cracked, and bumper held on with a coat-hanger (plus that goddamn smell I can'd find the source of) is ready to head to the scrap yard, It'll necessarily have to be replaced with one of the dozen or so Tesla models. Because GM is full of shti. If they weren't, we'd see an ad for the Bolt EV during the Superbowl. Until then, full of siht.

 

[XJ12]

we'd see an ad for the Bolt EV during the Superbowl

supposedly you'll see an add for the electric Hummer

 

[California]

Yeah a thousand horsepower Hummer. With 11,000 ft lbs of torque in one article I saw! Is that even possible? That's 10 x greater than a 40 ton semi. Lights will dim all over the neighborhood if you buy the matching quick charger.

Everybody needs one of these instead of simply a EUV, of any size?

Why not just buy a locomotive.

 

[Pigwich]

With 11,000 ft lbs of torque in one article I saw! Is that even possible?

That's not hard to believe if you measure it at the wheel after it's been geared down a bunch and multiplied by four wheels. Or some gimmick like that. Sure is **** isn't motor output.

 

[Pigwich]

supposedly you'll see an add for the electric Hummer

Or at least a bunch of horses running and a rendering of a grille. It's a start I guess? Naturally, I'm still not happy, and won't until an EV gets the same ad time as a Subaru.

But could this be, literally the very first time a commercial for an EV will go out on American air waves?

I wonder what would happen if Tesla had a TV ad? I mean, yeah, you could argue that they don't need to, but that's not the question I'm asking.

 

[XJ12]

But could this be, literally the very first time a commercial for an EV will go out on American air waves?

I've seen multiple EV ads on TV. Jaguar and Nissan to name two.

 

[wonderbolt]

I've seen multiple EV adds on TV. Jaguar and Nissan to name two.

Audi, ELectrify America, Ford........

 

[wonderbolt]

and my favorite EV add of all time

 

[XJ12]

Audi, ELectrify America, Ford........

You inspired me to edit my post with links...

 

[GetOffYourGas]

Here's my favorite

 

[GJETSON]

Here's my favorite

Yup. Best ad ever.

 

[p7wang]

Here's my favorite

Yes, I miss the old days when I have to go buy a gallon of gasoline to run my computer. haha

 

[p7wang]

Remember from 2011?

 

[ArizonaJon]

Or you could go back to 1996 for GM's first electric car commercial.

 

[davioh2001]

Or you could go back to 1996 for GM's first electric car commercial.

Too bad GM hated the EV1 so much - they might be as big as Tesla now had the went on to continue to improve it and not scrap it! Thanks for the You Tube link - 1st time I saw it.