After reading the article, I see two mistakes:
1. "...the Bolt packs a remarkably compact and power-dense battery that spans its entire floor." Not true. The battery doesn't "span the floor" below the front wheels and bay, and below the trunk. It isn't following the GM "skateboard" concept design completely, which spanned from bumper to bumper.
2."The Bolt’s econobox styling and interior are my only real complaints, a seeming lost opportunity for GM to steal some of Tesla’s high-design cachet and buyers." I sat in a Model S and it does have plenty of plastics, just like the Chevy Bolt EV has! That TM "cachet" is not an objective observation, just a matter of the author's personal opinion, and should not be a part of such article.
The conclusion is what makes this article very good: "Buyers of EVs tend toward optimism, anyway." And that is very true, but there will always be nitpickers who find defects where there are none.
I see them as envious, and remind me of Aesop's "Sour Graapes" fable, where a fox, who tries several times to grab a bunch of grapes, gave up and called them "sour". The Model 3 reservaions are doing just that with the Chevy Bolt EV because that BEV is available, but the TM Model 3 isn't.
