GM reverses plan to retire Chevrolet Bolt as it chases EV target

Re:GM reverses plan to retire Chevrolet Bolt as it chases EV... by linuxftw on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @04:56PM (#36869383)

Has Tesla ever promised something and not delivered, I think that's the real question. Another question is, how often are Teslas totaled for what would be a minor accident in another vehicle?

All that twisting and bending force being applied to a unibody, I can't see it ending well.

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Re:GM reverses plan to retire Chevrolet Bolt as it chases EV... by lesuorac on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:19PM (#36869759)

Tesla's Model X (depending on options) has a towing capacity of 5k lbs [1]. As far as I can tell, nobody is claiming that this is false and there's a few anecdotes of people with 5k campers they tow.

So, afaik, historical claims by Tesla on towing capacity are true so there seems to be more reason to believe a future towing claim is accurate based on previous towing claims than believe it's false because previous non-towing claims have been false.

[1]: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modelx/en_us/GUID-7A684E2...

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Re:GM reverses plan to retire Chevrolet Bolt as it chases EV... by linuxftw on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:07PM (#36870305)

5k on a unibody is standard. I'm just talking about feature claims in general.

I think we're going to see Cybertrucks with totally trashed frames if they try to go live with 14k loads.

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Re:GM reverses plan to retire Chevrolet Bolt as it chases EV... by linuxftw on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:47PM (#36870799)

It's standard in the sense that the vast majority of unibody vehicles produced today have a 5k towing limit.

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