2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV
&gt; PRICE AS TESTED: $43,905 (base price: $37,495)<p>&gt; can be had for <i>less than the price of the average new car.</i><p>Emphasis mine and obviously they are factoring in the $7,500 tax credit which I guess is fine.<p>I dislike this &quot;price of the average new car&quot; line and it gets repeated a lot. Car manufacturers must love it since it tries to normalize that price as &quot;average&quot; when its not very representative. Grand total &quot;average new car&quot; price that the media is using everywhere is $33,666, but that&#x27;s only because of the average price of luxury cars and trucks driving the number way, way up. There&#x27;s a breakdown by sector in KBB&#x27;s numbers:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mediaroom.kbb.com&#x2F;new-car-transaction-prices-up-2-percent-march-2016" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mediaroom.kbb.com&#x2F;new-car-transaction-prices-up-2-per...</a><p>Scroll down to the second table for more realistic numbers. At any rate the <i>median</i> new car price, if we could get it, would be much more telling. Sadly I can&#x27;t find it anywhere.<p>After the tax credit the base model is the average cost of a Mid-size Pickup Truck ($30,045) or average cost of a sports car ($30,712)<p>But well above the average cost of a mid size car ($25,095) or crossover ($27,056) or subcompact ($17,218)