Posted on 02/15/2022 7:39:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it will start making Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles again in early April after an eight-month pause due to a series of battery fire recalls.
The automaker says Tuesday that battery supplier LG Energy Solution is now making enough to supply replacement modules for the recalls as well as to resume production.
The company will start making hatchback and SUV versions of the Bolt on April 4 at a factory north of Detroit. Those should start reaching dealers a few weeks later. Vehicles on dealer lots at the time of the recalls can be sold once battery modules are replaced.
In August GM expanded a previous recall to more than 140,000 Bolts sold worldwide since 2016 because battery manufacturing defects could cause the vehicles to catch fire.
To capture U.S. electric vehicle market share leadership, GM plans to spend $35 billion to roll out more than 30 new battery vehicles globally by 2025, including about 20 in North America. The company has said it aspires to make only electric passenger vehicles by 2035.
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I hear Chevy Bolt’s are hot!
Yup....burnin’ up the road...and your garage.
Just like a Bolt of lightening.
“battery supplier LG Energy Solution”
They probably make batteries as crappy as their televisions.
And refrigerators...................
GM and Ford are facing economic ruin because they simply do not comprehend the laws of physics. Green energy can never power a modern industrial society, mass use of electric vehicles are not only not wanted by a large majority of consumers, but simply cannot be powered unless there is massive burning of fossil fuels or the nuclear power generation is increased 20 fold worldwide. The capital investments in the mass production of EVs will never return a profit and will result in bankruptcy for those who squandered capital.
But yes to the inability to charge all those vehicles if much of the nation switches to EV. On that I agree with you. Now, whether or not Ford and GM will be liable for that? I dunno. The result may be that they sell a tons of gas cars after that with people ready to switch cars from EV to gas a lot sooner than they would have normally been for a while after buying a new car.
A don't forget the CAFE standards. By selling a ton of EV that lowers the average miles per gallon of their total cars sold, which allows them to sell more gas guzzlers too without crossing the CAFE limit.
“GM and Ford are facing economic ruin because they simply do not comprehend the laws of physics.”
I’m no scientist, but it would seem to me that the auto manufacturers are gleefully jumping off a cliff. I just don’t understand how the shortcomings can be ignored. Here in Ohio, on hot summer days, with everyone running their AC, we have black outs and are scolded to curb electricity use. Now imagine 30% of households have EVs to charge. The math doesn’t work.
And as is often noted, what do you do with those batteries once they’re depleted?
I would agree that the future should included diverse energy sources. But pushing the automakers off the cliff like lemmings doesn’t make sense. I must be missing something?
And when home insurance companies won’t sell to folks who have li-ion cars...
Ford pinto.......the Jimmy Carter of cars.
LOL indeed
“Here in Ohio, on hot summer days, with everyone running their AC, we have black outs and are scolded to curb electricity use. “
Most charging is done at night when there is EXCESS capacity.
Electric utilities were all in favor of EVs back in the 80s and 90s as a way to improve asset utilization and reduce average costs. They had huge generating capacity that was underutilized at night. What better way to use that nighttime excess generating capacity than charging EVs?
But utilities bought into the green dream and shut down many coal plants and installed lots of windmills and solar cells. As a result, a lot of the excess coal capacity that used to be available at nighttime is gone, the sun doesn’t shine at night, and the wind doesn’t blow much at night.
So utilities got their wish of EVs, but now are short on power to recharge them at night.
That’s what happens when you buy into the green dream. Nothing works.
Bwahahahah, let's see how much EXCESS there is when everybody has an EV.
“Most charging is done at night when there is EXCESS capacity.”
Yeah, because the power never goes out at night. Do you have some sort of investment in EVs? I ask because that’s some weak gruel you’re trying to sell.
I’m going to rush right out and buy a car that had a lot of disastrous battery fires. Yep. I’m lining right up. Can’t wait to get a car with a battery made by LG.
A friend’s son works at a store that deals a lot of TVs, furniture, etc. He sez that the LG TVs are the most returned TVs by far. Samsungs are the least returned TVs.
The new Chevy Bolt is lighting up the countryside!
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