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Say goodbye to the Chevy Bolt EV… again. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
General Motors won\u2019t be bringing over the original hatchback Bolt to the automaker\u2019s Ultium platform, just the larger Bolt EUV, GM confirmed after InsideEVs<\/em><\/a> first reported the news. That comes after GM said it was discontinuing Bolt production but later confirmed that it would resurrect the EV as an Ultium vehicle for 2025<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The original Bolt EV was built on GM\u2019s older and soon-to-be-obsolete BEV2 platform. The automaker has since shifted to the Ultium battery architecture for its next-generation EVs, including the Cadillac Lyriq, Hummer EV, and GMC Sierra EV. Chevy is building a trio of Ultium-built EVs, including the\u00a0Silverado EV<\/a>,\u00a0Blazer EV<\/a>, and\u00a0Equinox EV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe are glad to see the enthusiasm surrounding the upcoming Chevrolet Bolt\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe are glad to see the enthusiasm surrounding the upcoming Chevrolet Bolt,\u201d Cody Williams, senior manager for communications at Chevy, said in a statement. \u201cWe will share details as we get closer to its launch date. As we\u2019ve said before, the new Bolt will build on the formula that has made it a success today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Joining them in 2025 will be the Bolt EUV, which is slightly longer and comes with more cargo space than the Bolt EV. The differences are pretty slight: the 2022 Bolt EUV is about nine inches longer than the Bolt EV but basically the same height and width. The Bolt EUV has 97 cubic feet of passenger volume and 16 cubic feet of cargo space behind the rear seats, while the Bolt EV has 93.9 cubic feet of passenger space and 16.6 cubic feet of cargo space behind the rear seats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n First introduced in 2016<\/a>, the Chevy Bolt EV was intended to be the automaker\u2019s first stab at a mass-market, battery-electric vehicle with 200-plus miles of range and an affordable price tag.\u00a0The company\u00a0released a refreshed model<\/a>, as well as a slightly larger EUV version, in early 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But thanks to Tesla\u2019s dominance in the EV market, sales of the Bolt EV and EUV were pretty anemic for several years. This year has been one of the Bolt\u2019s best sales years yet, with record sales in the second quarter across multiple markets. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But the Bolt\u2019s compact hatchback shape is not what most American car buyers are looking for these days, instead preferring larger SUVs and trucks. And a\u00a0recall of 2017\u20132019 model year Bolts<\/a>\u00a0related to a flawed battery that left the vehicle prone to fires certainly didn\u2019t help either.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n