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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“Bwahahahah,”
Did you major in Communications?
Nothing like that excess capacity on a winter night.
“Yeah, because the power never goes out at night. “
Why do you say the power never goes out at night?
Energy doesn’t like to be stored. Which is why it is both expensive and (technologically) difficult to do, and can be hazardous if not done properly.
Which is why fossil fuels are are such a miracle. Nature already has done the heavy lifting, converting nuclear energy that was created in the sun into an energy-dense material that’s easily transportable and relatively stable (varies with the form) and buried it in the earth.
Dig it out of the ground and set it alight — even in its raw form — and it immediately will release great amounts of energy that the sun cast into space millions of years ago. A little bit of refining and it can be used as foundation to make everything from plastics to clothing to cleansers to fuel that can power a million-pound jet airplane.
It is possible (and economical) to store fossil fuels for extended periods, and minor leaks can be inconsequential. Stored electrical potential, ... not so much, on either count.
“Why do you say the power never goes out at night?”
*sigh* Joe Biden is that you? You said most charging is done at night when there is excess capacity. The power does fail at night. On a 100* day, the homes around here remain pretty warm with AC running until 11p, 12p, even 1a.
EVs require around 32A@220V to charge. Increase their number from around 1% of vehicles to 30% and the grid won’t keep up.
Maybe that's not the case in other states. I hear in other states it was a big deal (i.e. California and Texas) where they tried to go all-in on "green" energy only for it to fail bigly and have no fossil fuel backbone to fill in the gap.
By the way, I'm all for solar energy at the individual level. Basically, while the Dims make our power prices keep going sky high, I've put 10 kW of solar panels onto my house to free me from some of that burden. Sure, my solar is intermittent and will never fully replace power from the grid. But it moves the needle on my costs enough so that over half of my power is "free" from my solar system (obviously not truly free because I had an upfront cost). That lets me sleep comfortably knowing the Dims can't mess up the energy portion of my budget too much with their extra costs chasing their unicorn dreams of all our needs powered by dilithium crystals covered in tinkerbell fairy dust to save us from the invisible global warming scaremageddon. The extra costs I got from them shutting down the coal plant was the last straw in making me research if it was feasible to generate some of my own power. If they quit jacking up costs and power rates rise at only a reasonable 3% inflation rate from here, my system will pay for itself in a decade. Of course, if they make rates inflate sharper than that it'll pay for itself sooner.
Utilities somewhat halfheartedly fought the Renewable Portfolio Standards that require that a specified percentage of the electricity utilities sell comes from renewable resources. It was easy to pay just enough lip service to those standards keep the loons at bay. But the companies are no longer run by engineers. The new top execs are lawyers and accountants who readily capitulated to the green crazies.
I spent about 30 years in the industry and saw it transform from a culture of "obligation to serve," engineering excellence, high availability and low cost to a crazy green culture. Fewer and fewer people were willing to say "the emperor has no clothes." The constant infusion of politics into every decision that used to be just technical and economic made me sick and I left the industry.
Get a Bolt and fire it up!
“On a 100* day, the homes around here remain pretty warm with AC running until 11p, 12p, even 1a.”
Significant charging can be done from after midnight.
“EVs require around 32A@220V to charge.”
Not true. A 110 v charger can give you 40+ miles of range drawing little more than a hair dryer.
“Not true. A 110 v charger can give you 40+ miles of range drawing little more than a hair dryer.”
Proof?
From what I’ve read, large vehicles should be charged 40A@220V. Smaller ones can use 110V, and will draw about 16A.
“Typically, the most range you can add with 120-volt charging, called Level 1, is 5 miles in one hour’s time, and that’s if the vehicle you’re charging is an efficient, small EV. “
https://www.cars.com/articles/home-ev-chargers-and-how-to-choose-one-442511/
Do you have any expertise in this stuff, or do you just make things up? Because if a hair dryer draws 16A, you would need a special 20A circuit to run it. Most home outlets are 15A.
“Do you have any expertise in this stuff, or do you just make things up? Because if a hair dryer draws 16A, you would need a special 20A circuit to run it. Most home outlets are 15A.”
Yes. Go back and read what I said.
““Typically, the most range you can add with 120-volt charging, called Level 1, is 5 miles in one hour’s time”
The Tesla 3 uses about 250 whr/mile. Let’s use 300 for charging versus use.
A Level 1 charger draws 1920 watts. One hour is 1920 whr.
1920 / 300 = 6.4 miles in one hour. 8 he x 6.4 miles = 51 miles.
In stand by my 40+. Even your post supports my claim.
“Yes. Go back and read what I said.”
In not a single post did you mention current draw. I must therefore conclude you are either a liar or an idiot.
Good day.
“In not a single post did you mention current draw. I must therefore conclude you are either a liar or an idiot.”
Obviously you didn’t go back and read my post ...
“I must therefore conclude you are either a liar or an idiot.”
One knows he has lost on facts when he makes unsubstantiated personal attacks ...
Perhaps you can’t read, either:
(JR) Please. NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.
New and Improved Chevy Bolt: Now With New Anti-Spontaneous-Combustion Module!
“Obviously you didn’t go back and read my post ...”
Your post came in about 40 seconds before mine. Your claims are wrong, and yet you continue to press them. 1920W, you do realize how amperage is calculated, right? No hair dryer takes 1920W, that’s 16A, again over the rating of any standard outlet. Now that I’ve proven you’re exaggerating, (at best), the real issue is the load on the grid.
In Ohio there are roughly 4.5M registered vehicles. So, 1% of that is 45k EVs. That’s 86M w/hr. Bump it up to 30% EV, that’s 1.35M. That’s 2.592G w/hr. You think the grid has that much extra capacity?
“One knows he has lost on facts when he makes unsubstantiated personal attacks ...”
Or when one is frustrated by a liar. Go whine little snowflake, maybe the admins will save you so you can peddle your incoherent clap-trap.
“w/hr.”
You need a course in basic electricity.
” Now that I’ve proven you’re exaggerating, (at best), the real issue is the load on the grid.”
Please quote my post an show the error ...
“the real issue is the load on the grid.”
Which is not a problem during the 10 PM to 6 AM period when there is almost 50% excess capacity.
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