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> Again compliance cars, these vehicles aren't trying to dominate a market but rather counteract fleet inefficiencies elsewhere. That's not really what the te

> Again compliance cars, these vehicles aren't trying to dominate a market but rather counteract fleet inefficiencies elsewhere. That's not really what the term "compliance car" means in general use. A compliance car is a lazy rebadge of some other vehicle, that only exists to meet compliance. The Ford Energi vehicles are compliance cars. The Chevy Spark EV is a compliance car. The Volt and Bolt were mostly unique designs, with state-of-the-art technology, and were generally the best electrics available in the US to date (second only to Tesla). The Volt has the highest customer satisfaction rate of any car sold in the US. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1080762_chevy-volt-electric-car-has-highest-customer-satisfaction-scores-again https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1080762_chevy-volt-elec... . Yes, these vehicles help Chevy meet compliance (as any efficient car technically does), but they are not "compliance cars" by the normal definition of that phrase.

cptskippy 8y ago
> That's not really what the term "compliance car" means in general use. The term "compliance car" in general use refers to cars produced to be in compliance with a regulation. More specifically the cars you sited were produced to be in compliance with CARB standards. The Volt/Bolt are compliance cars for CAFE, which unlike CARB specifies that fleet is a reference to cars for sale in the United States. As I said in my original post, GM is probably hedging it's bets by developing the technologies that will scale up to it's entire fleet but has no desire to do so. When the Bolt launched, GM said they were going all electric and would be launching 18 EV models by 2023. So far we haven't heard anything about new models and the Bolt is speculated to be losing GM up to $9000 per car. Maybe those 18 models were just re-badges of the Bolt for different markets?

cptskippy 8y ago

> That's not really what the term "compliance car" means in general use. The term "compliance car" in general use refers to cars produced to be in compliance with a regulation. More specifically the cars you sited were produced to be in compliance with CARB standards. The Volt/Bolt are compliance cars for CAFE, which unlike CARB specifies that fleet is a reference to cars for sale in the United States. As I said in my original post, GM is probably hedging it's bets by developing the technologies that will scale up to it's entire fleet but has no desire to do so. When the Bolt launched, GM said they were going all electric and would be launching 18 EV models by 2023. So far we haven't heard anything about new models and the Bolt is speculated to be losing GM up to $9000 per car. Maybe those 18 models were just re-badges of the Bolt for different markets?