First post! I've been lurking for a couple months now and I'm really thankful to everyone here sharing their experiences.
Dark Grey, 33k miles on it.
Luckily the previous owner hadn't reset the trip counter in about 32k miles so i'm able to posit that the lifetime mi/kWh is 3.4! (Which seems fairly average?)
At first I was wary of buying a used EV, as most people probably are before doing much research, but after looking through thread after thread of people praising the Bolt's bullet-proof drive system and better than expected battery performance, I put those worries aside.
After driving it around town for a few days we decided to try out a longer trip. It was an out & back trip, 180 miles total. We were worried because after charging the car to full (turned off hilltop reserve for this trip), the GOM told us we would get 170 miles of range.
Reading a few threads on here had me thinking that the GOM was probably low-balling and the estimate would adjust as we went, and besides, there was a DC Fast charger on our route that we could stop at in case of catastrophe.
At mile ~130 we stopped at the Fast Charger with 37 miles left on the GOM. So it actually turned out to be really accurate for this trip.
It was about 45F I believe, was a bit windy, the route was flat, 95% interstate driving at 65-70mph, and we kept the climate controls low. So I was thinking that the less than ideal weather mixed with interstate speed was the cause of the lackluster range performance.
Fast forward about a week later, i've been taking short trips around town with it, and the weather has even been nicer (50-70F). After a week of 'recovering' from the long trip I figured the GOM would recalibrate the estimated range but it actually seems to be getting worse.
It's fully charged (with hilltop reserve re-enabled) and the range estimate is 139 (max 164). This got me concerned so I got myself an OBD2 adapter and sure enough, my "Estimated Battery Capacity" reading is 44kWh.
And so now i'm here with the question: Did I buy a lemon?
Dark Grey, 33k miles on it.
Luckily the previous owner hadn't reset the trip counter in about 32k miles so i'm able to posit that the lifetime mi/kWh is 3.4! (Which seems fairly average?)
At first I was wary of buying a used EV, as most people probably are before doing much research, but after looking through thread after thread of people praising the Bolt's bullet-proof drive system and better than expected battery performance, I put those worries aside.
After driving it around town for a few days we decided to try out a longer trip. It was an out & back trip, 180 miles total. We were worried because after charging the car to full (turned off hilltop reserve for this trip), the GOM told us we would get 170 miles of range.
Reading a few threads on here had me thinking that the GOM was probably low-balling and the estimate would adjust as we went, and besides, there was a DC Fast charger on our route that we could stop at in case of catastrophe.
At mile ~130 we stopped at the Fast Charger with 37 miles left on the GOM. So it actually turned out to be really accurate for this trip.
It was about 45F I believe, was a bit windy, the route was flat, 95% interstate driving at 65-70mph, and we kept the climate controls low. So I was thinking that the less than ideal weather mixed with interstate speed was the cause of the lackluster range performance.
Fast forward about a week later, i've been taking short trips around town with it, and the weather has even been nicer (50-70F). After a week of 'recovering' from the long trip I figured the GOM would recalibrate the estimated range but it actually seems to be getting worse.
It's fully charged (with hilltop reserve re-enabled) and the range estimate is 139 (max 164). This got me concerned so I got myself an OBD2 adapter and sure enough, my "Estimated Battery Capacity" reading is 44kWh.
And so now i'm here with the question: Did I buy a lemon?