[TooCheapToMeter]

Hi - I've been following this excellent forum for a few months now.

Many of the tips and observations from this forum have been very helpful. 'Thank you' to all.

I bought a used 2017 Bolt Premier from Enterprise Car Sales in mid-June 2019. It is white w/light interior and had 38K miles at purchase (@3.9 mi/kwh average). It came with a JuiceBox 40 (w/o wifi) and 12K mile warranty for $26.5K (before tax, title, etc).

I live in San Diego and currently have a 2000 Honda Insight hybrid, bought new 2/2000. 57 lifetime mpg @ 132,000 miles. The Bolt is my first four wheel EV, though I have a 2003 Tidalforce M-750 bicycle (a human + EV hybrid) and a RANS recumbent with Heinzmann hub. Years ago I tried to buy a Sparrow after driving a couple of prototypes and pre-production models. Then tried to buy an Aptera. Both deposits were recovered successfully! Hopefully the Aptera will make it this time!

I have only charged the Bolt at home so far (I have a small surplus of solar power). The first two months were done using using the original equipment EVSE at 120V. Slow but not terrible. Then used it on 240V (via two x 120V) after learning about that capability from discussion forums. That seemed very workable, but I finally got around to getting the Juice Box wired up on 240V. I probably wouldn't have bothered if it had not come with the car. Wow! What a luxury. Probably will probe convenient once the power company puts me on TOU rates.

Starting to play around with OBD and scan software.

Thanks again to all of you for the helpful comments, hints, ideas, tips.

-Michael D.

 

[Packard V8]

Welcome to the forum.

The more you drive the Bolt, the more you'll love it.

jack vines

 

[JohnnyEV]

Welcome to the club. I have been driving electric since 2012 and with solar panels on my house, the first few years cost me a whole total of $38 / year for electricity for the house and energy for driving 2 cars about 1800 miles total / month. The decision to go all electric was one of the best decisions I have made and I will never go back to an ICE vehicle. The bolt is the best one so far, although the Think City's were pretty cool. The Spark EV was a lot of fun and quick, just not enough range for my needs, especially in the winter snow season. The Bolt is in the sweet spot with both plenty of range and performance for my needs.

I also have played with Torque Pro and the Bolt PID's. There are BOLT OBD2 pid's here https://www.chevybolt.org/threads/chevrolet-bolt-obd2-pids.26666/page-1 from list: https://www.chevybolt.org/threads/chevrolet-bolt-obd2-pids.26666/page-1 Do not open them in Excel, as it will automatically change a few values to scientific notation so they won't work correctly if edited and saved with Excel. If you make a good layout for a dashboard, please post it on that topic.