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Chevrolet Bolt EV
The Chevrolet Bolt EV launched for the 2017 model year as the first mass-market, affordable electric vehicle to offer over 200 miles of EPA-rated range at a starting price under $40,000, beating Tesla's more expensive, longer-anticipated Model 3 to market by several months and earning Motor Trend's Car of the Year award before the Model 3 had even reached significant production volume. Built on a dedicated EV platform rather than adapted from an existing gasoline model, the Bolt prioritized interior space and practicality inside a genuinely compact footprint, using a tall-roof hatchback body style that maximized headroom and cargo capacity in a way most competing compact EVs of its era didn't attempt. The nameplate's later years were defined by a serious and costly setback: a series of battery-fire incidents linked to manufacturing defects in cells supplied by LG Energy Solution led to a total recall of every Bolt ever built in 2021, one of the largest and most expensive EV recalls in industry history, requiring GM to replace battery modules across the entire fleet at significant cost. Built at GM's Orion Assembly plant in Michigan, the Bolt was discontinued after the 2023 model year even as GM confirmed plans to revive the nameplate on a newer platform — a reminder that even a genuinely important "first affordable long-range EV" milestone car can still be undone, at least temporarily, by a serious quality failure in the exact battery technology its entire value proposition depended on.
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Rivian R1T
The Rivian R1T launched in 2021 as the first all-electric pickup truck to reach production from any manufacturer, beating far larger and better-funded rivals — Ford's F-150 Lightning and Tesla's own Cybertruck among them — to market by months, a genuinely significant milestone for a company that had been operating in relative obscurity for over a decade before its 2018 public unveiling. Its quad-motor variant, with one electric motor independently driving each wheel, delivered a genuinely novel off-road capability called "tank turn," letting the truck rotate close to its own footprint by spinning the wheels on each side in opposite directions — a maneuver no gasoline or diesel truck's mechanical drivetrain could physically replicate, and one Rivian marketed specifically to distinguish the R1T from its eventual gasoline and electric competitors alike. The truck's "gear tunnel," a lockable storage compartment running through the body between the cab and the bed, made creative use of space freed up by the absence of a traditional driveshaft and exhaust system, becoming one of the R1T's most distinctive and frequently cited practical features among reviewers and owners. Built at Rivian's plant in Normal, Illinois — a former Mitsubishi Motors factory the company acquired and retooled — the R1T's head start on the electric-pickup category, combined with backing and early investment from Amazon and Ford, made it one of the most closely watched new vehicle launches of the early 2020s and the truck most directly responsible for proving genuine consumer demand existed for a fully electric pickup before any legacy truck manufacturer had one on sale.
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