Covid and Cars
Batteries not Included Tue Aug 24th One of the many barges taking wood chips to Port Mellon Wed Aug 25th Having checked out the Chevy Bolt Electric Vehicle (EV) on Sunday we arranged to take a closer look on Tuesday. The red EUV (slightly larger than the EV) remained unsold on the forecourt. We learnt that it, and all other Bolts were going to remain unsold due to a Chevrolet recall and sales ban. They were happy to take a deposit on it, but we were not able to do a test drive. Irritated (understatement) we'd driven down to Sechelt when the salesman knew it could not be sold and then tried to sell something else was not a great dealership strategy. It was particularly frustrating as we wanted to buy an EV from a Coast based dealership, rather than have to go back to Vancouver for servicing. GM are the only EV supplier on the Coast. About ten of GM's earlier models have caught fire because of a battery fault, none of the...