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we an android authority you know we really focus on mobile technology on the future technology talking a colleague Andrew before about battery breakthrough six thousand cycles before it starts to degrade so we're looking at the bolt here now this is a completely electric vehicle it's one hundred percent can we talk to the king just tell us a little bit more about it about the range maybe the price point kind of way absolutely we're going to be at least a 200 mile range vehicle we're going to offer this vehicle with the current incentives it would be approximately thirty thousand dollars so it's well within the price range of the majority of customers and most importantly from a packaging perspective it is a small car but you get inside of it and the spaciousness is just phenomenal it's amazing the size of vehicle that you've gotten in obviously this is our concept vehicle you know there are some differences however I will tell you that the overall spaciousness in the field of the actual production car is very similar so it's pretty exciting and one of the things that's most exciting that we can't talk about yet but I guarantee you you and I will be talking about it's a level of connectivity that this car is going to bring it's going to step up you know I think General Motors is a very good job and and is a leader within that space but when this car comes out I think think your socks will be taken right off the bat it's a pretty what I myself to take it up it's pretty impressed I mean you know our generation you know and I'm starting a little bit older but the younger demographics simply aren't buying vehicles you know everyone has a mobile lifestyle living in the city you know it's a hassle have a big car cars have been you know an enormous financial responsibility but I mean everyone has a supercomputer in their pocket so can you just give us a little bit of a glimpse into what is your guys's thinking around the integration with mobile and you know so there's there's a lot of things that we will be talking about relative to the urban mobility that you just mentioned this car is going to bring in some features that have never been done before and relative to the connectivity I'm the same way I use my phone I live and die by my phone I'd like my phone that just basically be right part of my car when I get into it and have that happen instantly I think you know when we get into production and we can get you guys into the vehicle you're going to see that level of expectation that i would expect and that i would hope your readers would expect to just fall right in line with exactly like hey why hasn't this always been this move because it's that easy yeah and it's the way it should work right it's great when you pick up new new phone technology and something happens and it's just completely intuitive and automatic and that's how we're making this car android auto apple carplay i don't know if we can go and talk about that just yet pretty much going to happen now it's a cool feature yeah something I've been thinking about which is the weaknesses of Android auto you know it's kind of harmonized across all the manufacturers and you guys are obviously taking a deep plunge but it's a really it's the initial stages I think back to the first version of windows or you know first version android or even the first version iOS and how far they've come in terms of improving I'm disability so no I think we're gonna see a lot of really great integrations in the future yeah I do and it's and you know in the past to be quite honest with you and it's not something that probably you know your audience understands but when working with the automotive companies we have a certain time line of developing vehicles and a phone development is a significantly shorter development timeline right so to take that timeline and think it can just immediately apply into a car it's incredibly difficult right we have regulations and there's a lot of validation and time that has to be spent with them and you know we've been working a lot with the different you know with Android with Apple trying to get ourselves a line on how to make this happen and we've made some massive steps then it's going to allow us to be able to better adapt you know their six-month development timeline to be able to take that into our car quickly right so those are the type of things where I think this car is going to really start to really move the needle because we're really well aligned now with those come help salute and I have to applaud you you know 14 different vehicles with Android auto apple carplay enable that you guys going to roll out this year so that's the biggest roll out that we've seen yet there's no other manufacturer that compares yeah we want to be the leaders in connectivity yeah we understand you know personally I understand it and our company and our senior leadership they understand how important that is and how easy it makes your car life yeah it just effectively makes it you know easy and that's what we want to make it do effortless absolutely so what's the weight of this car and what are the size of the batteries the way to the battery is relative to the overall weight of the vehicle so the battery is a significant mess yeah of the vehicle we're not going to talk about specifics around the battery or where it's located okay um obviously it's a 200-mile car so it is a significant size battery you can infer on where it essentially lies and if you could choose one the Volt of the bolt usain bolt EV bowl TV would you which one would you choose which one do you think is a better fit for people well it depends on your lifestyle right I can tell you from for myself I have two kids I have a Newfoundland and a little dog so the Volt wouldn't be the right car for myself this car would be a perfect car for in terms of real-world application if I wanted to drive go see my grandma could I bring the power cable and everything kind of just lateral yeah absolutely yeah I mean you can bring the one-ton 20 charge cord you can stop at a DC fast charger yeah you know the u.s. is continuing to increase its level of charging and infrastructure and and we work hard we work hard with the government we work hard with other OEMs to continue to build that infrastructure how long would it take to charge this vehicle on a home connection um we're not going to get into charge times just yet obviously we're still doing a lot of development to make that better and make it faster yeah but I feel very confident saying you know Pam alluded to it earlier 40 they are eight more than eighty percent of the drives in the current gen volt are done on EV only in that car had 40 might less than 40 miles range I expect that to be over ninety percent with the 50 miles angeles Chevy Volt absolutely so then we need step into a car like this how often are you going to actually deplete the 200 mile range well it depends on the customer but it's a pretty easy fill especially overnight absolutely well I got to applaud you guys for your leadership and you know for taking the deep lunge absolutely and what we definitely need to talk when we start getting around the high like service start a semi definite we thank you very much thank you starts to like with a signing off your android authority at the Chevy tech event