Posted on 08/23/2021 11:54:32 AM PDT by Hojczyk
General Motors is recalling another 73,000 Bolt EV and EUV electric vehicles in the United States and Canada for a problem that could cause the vehicles to catch fire.
GM had earlier announced that the recall would cost $800 million, but that was before the recall was expanded to cover all remaining Bolt vehicles. The recall is now expected to cost an additional $1 billion. The recall comes after GM had previously recalled about 70,000 Bolt vehicles for the same potential problem. The recall now covers Bolt EV and EUVs from 2017 to 2022.
GM had previously said that the problem with the Bolt batteries was caused by two rare battery manufacturing errors in model years 2017 to 2019 vehicles, and that more recent models did not undergo the same battery manufacturing process and so were not included in the recall. Now, though,
GM is recalling 9,335 more model year 2019 Bolt EVs and another 63,683 model year 2020 through 2022 Bolt EV and Bolt EUV models. The Bolt EUV is a taller crossover SUV version of the Bolt EV.
The recalled Bolt vehicles can catch fire after being charged due to a manufacturing defect, the company said. Until the batteries in the recalled vehicles can be checked and replaced, if necessary, GM recommends the vehicles be set to charge to only 90%. Owners should also charge their vehicles more frequently and avoid allowing the battery to be depleted to less than about 70 miles of driving range.
The vehicles should also be parked outdoors right after charging and should not be charged indoors. GM now says it is pursuing reimbursements from Korean battery manufacturer LG, the company that made the batteries that, GM said, are the cause of the problem.
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You have to be a nut to want a bolt.
+1 wordsmithing
+2.
Pinto Deja vue.
Obamamobile. They sold for $30k but cost $50k to build.
At least the Pinto didn’t try to burn itself up while setting in the garage.
Park your bolt outside so it doesn’t burn your house down...
Oh, and the Chinese control the materials to make electric car batteries.
They are bolting from the Bolt?.................
The Pinto was safe..........................in park...................
Makes more sense.
“Mr. Jones, I’ll be late for work today. I forgot to plug in my car last night.”
What to do with the millions upon millions of toxic batteries when they die. Do we bury them in New Jersey?
Surely somebody promoting the Green New Deal has an environmentally safe answer.
And once coal is banned, what power source do we use to recharge these batteries?
Pinto, Gremlin, Arrow, K car, All POS cars
Used to be the Volt.
They did a clean sheet of paper design and named it the Bolt.
Next up: Colt, Dolt then Revolt.
The late David Brenner once offered this solution for disposing of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants: Gift wrap it, then leave it in the back seat of a car parked in the parking lot at the airport in Newark, NJ.
Another “woke” company.
The climate change people are too stupid to consider anything beyond their 'feelings' of grandiosity... Besides the push for extreme 'green' is designed to destabilize our country and cut our ability to compete with China. Just ask John Kerry.
Well, that’s a relief. We don’t have the electric generating capacity (especially in California) to run these coal cars anyway.
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