I drove 250 miles on one charge in the Chevy Bolt. This is the future of GM.

Last week I was one of the first journalists in the world to take the Chevrolet Bolt EV on a road trip. Unaccompanied, hewing vaguely to a route prescribed by General Motors reps, I drove the electric car through thick soups of fog and oases of sunshine on the most beautiful chunk of the California coast.

The route between Monterey and Santa Barbara was designed not just to be photogenic, but also difficult, curvy and with plenty of hills in the way. I drove the first part of the trip at tremendous range-slashing speed, and used all the AC I wanted on the second, sunnier chunk. I wasn't a cold air hog, but nor was I trying to sip electricity.  Read more...