In Radio Interview, GM CEO Barra Hints Chevy Bolt Could Return

• Although the Chevy Bolt is going away, GM CEO Mary Barra talked up the compact EV in an interview with radio host Kai Ryssdal.

• “That’s an important vehicle in our portfolio,” she said. (Barra is shown above introducing the Bolt at CES in 2016.)

• Barra talked about the importance of leveraging GM’s “better-known” vehicle nameplates, and the Bolt would certainly qualify.

General Motors’ affordable, premier electric vehicle of the last six years, the Chevrolet Bolt hatchback (and larger Bolt EUV) ends production by the time the model year changeover from 2023 to ’24 takes place this summer.

Now it looks like it could be coming back in the near future.

“Bolt is something that has built up a lot of loyalty and equity,” GM CEO Mary Barra told radio host Kai Ryssdal in a nearly 30-minute long interview from Warren, Michigan, mostly about the automaker’s EV push, on American Public Media’s Marketplace Thursday. “So, I can’t say because I don’t discuss product programs, but … it was probably a move from second-generation to third-generation” battery technology, “but that’s an important vehicle in our portfolio.”