Chevy Bolt — The New Record Most Miles!

9 months ago Scott Cooney 0 Comments




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A few weeks ago, I published an article about what I thought, at the time, had to be a world record for most miles on a Chevy Bolt. A reader promptly wrote in and said, pshah! This one beats that record by 70K miles!

Check this out, from reader Dennis V:

I purchased a 2018 Chevy Bolt EV new in March of 2018, to replace a wrecked 2004 Alero with 390k miles.  Goal is to use it for 300k, since that is when I will be done commuting to [my job].  Drive 160 miles a day roundtrip to work, averaging 40k miles a year.

Battery was replaced under safety recall at 150k, no problems with original battery. Current battery is showing 61kwh capacity. Very little maintenance has been needed. Brakes have been done twice. Work has a 30amp level 2 charger, so I usually will charge 7-8 hours at work, and can make it home and back. I don’t roadtrip with the car, and have only used a fast charger once.

This is my first EV, was a bit of a gamble when I bought it, but has a been a great car.

Anyone else have a Bolt with more than 240K miles on it? Send it along!

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Scott Cooney

Scott Cooney (LinkedIn) is a serial eco-entrepreneur focused on making the world a better place for all its residents. Scott is the founder of CleanTechnica and was just smart enough to hire someone smarter than him to run it. He then started Pono Home, a service that greens homes, which has performed efficiency retrofits on more than 20,000 homes and small businesses, reducing carbon pollution by more than 27 million pounds a year and saving customers more than $6.3 million a year on their utilities. Scott wanted to contribute to native ownership of the clean energy revolution, so he gifted Pono Home to a long tenured employee with native Hawaiian roots for just the liquidation value, turning down a mainland company interested in purchasing the company. In a previous life, Scott was an adjunct professor of Sustainability in the MBA program at the University of Hawai'i, a consultant at Saatchi & Saatchi S, where he worked with a team to educate and empower millions of employees to live healthier and more sustainably. He is the author of Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur (McGraw-Hill) , and Green Living Ideas. Scott is an occasional investor, currently he has investments in Rivian (RIVN).

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