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GM should just bring back the Chevy Volt (www.theverge.com)
submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/evs@lemmy.world
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General Motors’ shift from an internal combustion engine-producing company to one that makes electric motors is sputtering. EV sales are up, but growing slower than expected. The company’s next-generation Ultium platform, in particular, isn’t meeting expectations. GM’s new electric trucks and SUVs seem perennially delayed — or full of buggy software.

I think I have an easy solution to a lot of these problems: bring back the Chevy Volt.

Remember the Volt, GM’s scrappy Toyota Prius fighter from the mid-2010s? The company was lauded when it first came out in 2010 as a prescient bet on vehicles with electric powertrains. And it was undeniably a very good hybrid. The first-generation model got 36 miles of electric range before the gas kicked in, while later versions would get a whopping 53 miles of electric range.

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[–] Garyx23x@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eh GM ditched CarPlay/android auto so pretty hard to consider any car they build as a serious option

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Subaru also started adding seat heating controls and other “previously a knob” items to their shitty large and laggy screen.

It’s like they are on a race to alienate consumers with dumb decisions. Previously you could rip out the garbage they put in and called infotainment, now you are stuck with it since it is “part of the car” and serves some function not available otherwise...

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh wow. We got the first ascent which was visibly bigger in size than the following models. They made the screen bigger which doesn't seem like an upgrade. They made a pretty good user friendly console and a good driving assist with Eyesight. They shouldn't "update" those.

[–] QuikxSpec@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Just give me a forester boxy wagon with a turbo, JFC or a turbo hybrid!