The on board charger is not being replaced. It's one of the units under the hood, and
stays put. A 2019 Bolt does get the larger capacity pack that came with all 2020+ Bolts. EPA range increases from 238 miles to 259 miles.

 

All 2022-2023 Bolts, and EUVs have the 11.2 kW instead of the 7.2 kW onboard charger. Unless you drive 24/7 for a living, the difference is meaningless. Most people don't arrive home with one bar showing 99.9% of the time, and most don't charge to 100%. The reality is a 6 hour charge vs an 8 hour charge for most people, most of the time. There are enough DC fast charging in much of the country at this point, that you can catch a fast charge on your way to that emergency trip to grandma's,

 

We are in an apartment and will be paying by the hour for every charge - $2+ per hour. It will add up. The EVSE's are 9kw. So we would like to at least match that. Also, the chevy dealers up here have been misrepresenting their used Bolts if this is the case.😡 All of them have told me we get the new motor, on board charger ,and battery pack.

 

Dealer says

Dealers shouldn't be trusted with information like this, they fed you BS to placate you.

OBC is what it is in the pre-2022 models. While it may be possible for aftermarket gear, chances are software would need updating to recognize the higher powered OBC, and GM won't update that for a discontinued model.

 

Well ****! Glad I checked about this. SO if the apartment owners do charge us $2 per hour instead of by the kWh, then it will cost us $4 more every time we do a complete charge. We have a Leaf at the moment but it is a 2015 and going to our son. Not that $4 is huge but it pisses me off. Might have to just order a new one while I can...

 

I really hate to hear of all the crazy ways people pay to charge their EVs. I am in Ocala, FL and our electric provider, SECO Energy, just started a new Time-Of-Use program where I charge the EVs between midnight and six AM. By doing so, they subtract $7/month from my bill. This brings my cost down significantly, especially since I currently pay only 11 cents per Kwh. Before the discount, my cost to drive my 22 EUV Launch Edition as well as my 21 Tesla Model Y Long Range is just under 3 cents/mile. Now, even less. Fortunately, I have my electric panel in the garage which made installation of the NEMA 1450 outlet easy.

 

In a previous post you said that you drove the Leaf ~100,000 km in 8 years, which is ~12,500 km per year, or ~7800 miles per year.

Say you get ~3.4 miles / kWh (sorry for converting everything in US units). That's about 2300 kWh per year.

At 7 kW, that's 328 hours of charging.
At 9 kW, that's 255 hours of charging.

So you'd charge an extra 73 hours per year, costing you an extra $146 per year.

Or $110 US.

 

Lol. Well guess we shouldn't worry too much about it then. But with our Bolt we will be taking much longer drives because of the nice big battery. We can always go visit our son and plug it in there for free. He is living n our house with solar panels so he can't say much. Except they both have electric cars so for sure one of them will be plugged in.

 

Our salesman described the process and owns a Bolt! So no excuse for him to not know. We did have an All EV store here and they were great but unfortunately they were bought out by Steele at the end of May with very little notice. I had been planning on dealing with them.

 

I haven't watched the video but New version (revision 04) of battery replacement... has a pointer to the latest revision of dealer instructions for swapping the pack as of early April 2023. I haven't followed to see if there's a newer rev for '17 to '19 Bolts.

None of the instructions for replacing the pack to remedy the battery fire recall EVER had anything about replacing the OBC nor motor.

You can go to 2019 CHEVROLET BOLT EV | NHTSA click on the + next to campaign 21V560000 then dig thru the 104 associated docs for other docs, instructions, info, etc. IIRC, the newer docs get added to the end.

 

I don't think this was mentioned yet, but the pre-22's and post-22's have a physically different size to the OBCM and they're not compatible from a mounting perspective I believe.