General Motors said Friday it is issuing a new recall for nearly 69,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles (EVs) worldwide for fire risks after reports of two fires and will replace defective battery modules as needed.
The Bolt EVs were recalled in November for fire risks and at least one of the two new fires was in a vehicle that had already had the software update released as part of that recall.
The latest recall comes after GM and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regulators last week urged Bolt owners to park their vehicles outside and away from homes after charging.
The largest U.S. automaker said “experts from GM and (battery maker) LG have identified the simultaneous presence of two rare manufacturing defects in the same battery cell as the root cause of battery fires in certain Chevrolet Bolt EVs.”
GM said it will replace defective battery modules in the recall population, although it is not clear how many are defective. The recall includes 50,925 U.S. vehicles.
h/t Chris
But it’s a harbinger of the wave of the future. “Order yours today, the 2025 Horse! 97% less likely to burst into flames without warning!”
(because 97% approval is all sciencey and stuff.)
Yes, it’s just high enough that no one can question it because at 97% the science is settled. Too high, say 99.99%, and even those who always trust “the science” begin to get a little doubtful.
Sorry to but in here, but isn’t what we are talking about called Chevy Volt?
I have never heard of a Chevy Bolt,
but I am quite sure
the owner’s a Dolt.
I don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m talking about horses. Not the Colt, the horse. Because plug-in cars are not dependable enough for me or my family.
Which might be Jolt for some until they remember that we Tolt them about it long ago, long before they decided to Folt and they Bolt’d and Solt their gas-burners. And we Lolt (LOLed) at them when they Tolt us it was the wave of the future. Did you mean them Dolts?
rare like rare blood clots?
Not unlike the Clot-Shot.
“GM said it will replace defective battery modules in the recall population”
At what cost? Just send fire extinguishers to the various owners. The virtue-signaling progs who bought these lemons deserve nothing more.
I see an engineering problems with these vehicles.
That damn AC and DC are two separate power sources that computer chips are not used to the added joy juice of DC power.
Same with our Canadian homes as we cheapened out for the lightest copper wires to run out light weight lives.
I imagine it will need 220 voltage to charge your electric vehicles which would need a new wire with heavier cables to your garages which you don’t have as well.
Add this to our new fleet of shit vehicles that the busses failed to strengthen their chaises for the added weight and are cracking and breaking…damn bumpy roads.
I’m not an engineer or even all that bright admittedly but shouldn’t the added weight of the batteries have been factored into the whole design equation before they were manufactured? Better flaming sparky cars than elevators I guess.
Nobody’s bright enough to check shit anymore or even project possible future problems.
That’s someone else’s job especially when you add in different companies responsible for different parts.
They don’t care.
That’s why the changing of Boeings jet engines was a huge engineering mistake.
The smaller engine were calibrated that the jet would be front heavy in flight which computers were calibrated for.
The heavier engine made the jet balanced in weight which then screwed up the computers to fight the balancing problems giving it conflicting data that made the computer shut down in mid flight causing these accidents as the manual override switches were moved and hard to find.
jojo u are so wrong in ur Boeing explanation I don’t know where to start …. please read the link.
The new geared jet engine was moved forward as it wouldn’t fit under the wing and moving the wing up on the fuselage was impossible structurally.
Your computer explanation is somewhat correct but the MCAS system at fault is very complex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuvering_Characteristics_Augmentation_System#:~:text=The%20Maneuvering%20Characteristics%20Augmentation%20System%20%28MCAS%29%20is%20a,when%20the%20aircraft%20is%20operating%20in%20manual%20
Meh.
Aircraft have been switching engines since the Wright Brothers.
All engines throw the aircraft around differently.
The Buenos Aires Air France Airbus that its pilots crash was a pilot/computer/software interface event. Same as the Boeing Max. Both had shallow experience crews.
Everything is run by computers, sensors, software with the human thrown in at the last bit.
Here’s the link I have and yes they did move it forward a bit to accommodate the LARGER engines.
That alone changes the weight distribution on the plane.
The company fast tracked with foreign engineers and ignored some concerns by the other engineers.
https://observer.com/2019/05/boeing-737-max-software-fix-permanently-ground/
Which the company failed to take in account.
As far as the company was concerned, they were just changing engines.
I heard that a new library was built in New York City, but had to be torn down and rebuilt because the forgot to factor in the incredible weight of the books. Don’t know if that is true, but it sound just like something humans would do.
That is a lot like the Murray Memorial Library on the grounds of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. The building has been sinking for decades and the stairs up to enter are now fewer steps. At least they only had to modify the stairs. As an engineer, I can’t confirm it was the book weight issue – maybe just poor geography research.
Recalls on cars have been happening for a long time. Wasn’t it Ralph Nader who got that ball rolling?
What will be more worrying is AI recalls when smarty pants decides otherwise, “I can’t do that, David.”
Newer, more expensive versions of batteries will prolly be fine, but when ICE cars are limited/illegal for the proles we’ll be stuck ordering an Uber (“supervised” by an ex Boko Haram Nigerian who can’t stop talking on the phone) or taking public transit and risk getting the Zombie variation of Covid.
I like taking public transit.
Get to stand in some Hobo’s puddle of piss ringed with flies.
Better than sitting on a seat that said Hobo just shat in.
“park their vehicles outside and away from homes after charging.”
This will increase the chance of burning someone else’s house down, likely some heretic who doesn’t have a sparky car, and they feel that’s much safer.
As a former owner of a Chevrolet Vega, I’m here to tell you that General Motors has a history of self-destroying cars that goes back to the early 1970s.
Much like their infamous lightweight diesels stuffed into Buicks.
The silver lining is the fact that the car was so poorly received that they only sold 69 thousand units over a 5 year period.
I knew a co-worker that had a Nissan Leaf. It was only good for about 125 miles per charge at the beginning(not the promised 200) and was down to 65 miles per charge after 4 years. When he looked into replacing the battery unit there were only 2 units available in the US and they cost over $11k. After 6 years 75% of all Leaf cars sold in the US have been scrapped.
Good info, half the range in 4 years. That meshes with what I know about cellphone batteries, so is quotable.
Thanks!
Car ferries to Newfoundland are equipped to carry as many as 250 or so cars and trucks and around 500 passengers and crew. Electric cars are becoming more common. But electric car fires are notoriously hard to extinguish. If one of these infernal sparky cars spontaneously combusts on a ferry it could ignite the entire car deck with predictably terrifying consequences. Electric cars should be banned from car ferries world wide.
Terrifying for the animals that you MUST leave behind in said vehicles as they are not allowed midship.
Poor Fluffy gets burned to a crisp before the ship sinks.
Me thinks the Newfies will put a stop to any electric vehicles being transported aboard said ferries.
Are there still morons around who say electric vehicles are “new technology”? What is the latest prevarication they use to justify their continued lying? Or is it still “the technology of batteries is so far advanced that electric propulsion is now a new technology again”? Like batteries have not been under continuous development for more than 200 years.
GM has been continuously involved in electric vehicles for more than 100 years. The simple truth of the matter is, that batteries are great for forklifts in indoor applications, and some other niche markets. But for 90% or more of your vehicle heavy lifting, it will be the ICE for the foreseeable future.
All electric vehicles are, are yet another push to limit the mobility of peasants, so they don’t have to allow you in their theatre, or on their beach, or to use their resort.
Mercedes is going full EV 2025. The “rich” deserve it hard too. Another GM.
If you read Rupert Darwall’s book, ‘Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex’, it goes back to NAZI Germany. The NAZIs wanted wind power too, and pushed vegetarianism as well.
Q. How do you know if someone is a vegan?
A. Don’t worry, they will tell you.
“Hermann Flohn, born in 1912, received his doctorate in 1934 and began work for the German Meteorological Service. In 1941, he published the first German-language article on global warming, the title of which translates as The Activity of Man as a Climate Factor.”
Yes, everything old is new again.
Yes, you really are that stupid, for ever believing a word of it at any point in your life.
Kevin, a most interesting point in history..!! First time I have ever read/heard that..Thanx..!!
So noted and added to my ever expanding 20th Century History knowledge….!!
The new again is shit!
Can’t even replace old gas fuel lines because they don’t make that quality anymore.
So the gas company ignores the problem.
Too costly to consider that option.
Profits boys, profits…
So, what are they doing with the recalled batteries? In the local dump?