Long Before The Chevy Bolt, GM Built An Electric Egg On Wheels
Interesting and entertaining short article that highlights how long GM has been working on BEVs, in this case much before EV1. The featured miniature car concept looks a lot like an electrified BMW Isetta knockoff, at least in principle. GM combined the Isetta’s front door with a canopy to make it look cooler, though I’m not sure if easier to enter and exit without banging your head.
BEVs sure have come a long ways in last 55 years or so. Too bad engineers of that time did not have lithium batteries to work with.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/11/the-2027-chevy-bolt-could-do-with-some-of-the-gm-512es-pac-man-weirdness/
P.S. — Before some of you get defensive, yes, I’m quite aware Ford had similar projects that date even further back. I’ve posted pictures of incredibly tiny Ford BEVs before.
On three shifts, REVC had a max. capacity of 150,000 / year.
Ford was anticipating a lot more sales growth that didn’t materialise
Yes in comparison,
BOC facility is massive and cannot proceed at present BEV demand,
that’s why T3 was delayed for three years but I have a feeling BOC Prod plant
will be repurposed long before then, Ford needs some sort of return from it
like they are doing with the battery plants…
You know Ford, the plan keeps changing until it works or something gets cancelled
Ford is facing a lot of red ink but we should no more in H1 2026,
too many things coming at Ford.
IMO I really don't think people give two shits about GHG or how miles per kWh vehicle makes....they want something that can go roughly the same distance as their ICE vehicle and maybe take a little longer to "fill up" on a long distance drive without driving a "shitbox" that looks like a toy.
That is why my hill to die on is to make a C class CUV EV that costs less then $40K decently equipped that has about 300 miles of range
I often take what people say how "big" with a grain of salt too...
A Maverick with a lift and bigger tires looks bigger then a Maverick does, but is the same "size" as one.
I'm guessing that length wise is will be in between the Maverick and Ranger, but as narrow as the Maverick.