I got my used 2017 Bolt EV in March from a niece in Boston who was getting a Tesla Y. Her husband had limited the charge to ~90% to keep it from fully charging, but I still had more than 4 times the range of any of the home made EVs I had previously had. Today I had an appointment to see if it has the suspect batteries and after finding out that it doesn't, it was restored to the full charging cycle. This is an incredible EV for me, they ordered it with everything you could add to top model and ot only had 13000 miles when I got it. If it was one which had the problem batteries GM would have replaced the battery pack, so I figured I won either way. They only came up with this recall fixit strategy about 6 weeks ago. Michael B
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 7:37 AM Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > GM warns some Bolt owners to park outdoors due to fire risk > > https://www.seattletimes.com/business/gm-warns-some-bolt-owners-to-park-outdoors-due-to-fire-risk/ > By TOM KRISHER > The Associated Press > > ... > The company said Wednesday that the request covers 2017 through 2019 > Bolts that were part of a group that was recalled earlier due to fires > in the batteries. > > The latest request comes after two Bolts that had gotten recall repairs > caught fire, one in Vermont and the other in New Jersey, GM spokesman > Kevin Kelly said. > ... > In April, GM announced that it had developed diagnostic software to look > for anomalies in the batteries of 69,000 Bolts worldwide. If problems > are found, the company will replace faulty parts of the battery. > ... > At first the company didn’t know what was causing the problem, but it > determined that batteries that caught fire were near a full charge. So > as a temporary fix, owners and dealers were told to make software > changes to limit charging to 90% of a battery’s capacity. > > GM traced the fires to what it called a rare manufacturing defect in > battery modules. It can cause a short in a cell, which can trigger a > fire. Under the remedy, dealers were to install software designed to > warn owners of problems, and any defective cells were to be replaced. > ... > Engineers determined the fires took place in Bolts with battery cells > made at an LG Chem factory in Ochang, South Korea, from May of 2016 to > May of 2019. > ... > Once the final recall repairs are made, the Bolts’ full range will be > restored. Older Bolts can go about 238 miles (383 kilometers) per > charge. > > ------- > > Peri > > << Annoyed by leaf blowers ? https://quietcleanseattle.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210715/851388c6/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
