The facts rather strongly indicate that GM has no plans to build the Bolt EV in high volume. Tesla has spent billions of dollars to build Gigafactory One, and has strong-armed its battery partner, Panasonic, to also pony up billions of dollars, to ensure they would have an adequate supply of batteries for up to, eventually, 400,000 Model 3’s per year plus another 100,000 Model S/X per year.
GM has made no such commitment to building BEVs in any serious volume, and no money at all spent on building battery factories. Those are two of several reasons why they are building only 30,000 Bolt EVs in the first year of production, and they’re apparently not going to build many more than that in the second year.
As I have said many times, we will know that legacy auto makers are getting serious about building compelling long-range BEVs in large numbers only if and when they commit to building out capacity for making battery cells in high volume. Reportedly VW has now made that commitment (I hope that isn’t just more of VW’s vaporware, altho I’m skeptical), but GM certainly has not, and isn’t yet talking about any future plans to do so.