https://townhall.com/tipsheet/.../chevy-bolt-n2594743

GM announced that it has issued a recall on every single Chevy Bolt made to date due to the battery fire risk. The move comes after two previous recalls, which were aimed at specific models.

The Bolt was first recalled in November after five cars that hadn’t been in crashes caught fire. After investigating the problem further, Chevy recalled a second batch in July. The problem was traced to two manufacturing defects that could occur simultaneously. The defects—a torn anode tab and a folded separator—created conditions that could lead to a short in affected cells. So far, the company has identified 10 fires that involve faulty batteries, according to an AP report.

This third and latest recall includes 73,000 Bolts made from 2019 to 2022, the current model year, and brings the total recall to nearly 142,000 cars, with over 100,000 having been sold in the US. GM estimates that the initial recalls will cost $800 million, and it expects the new one to add $1 billion to the total. GM said it will be seeking reimbursement from LG. […]

Until replacement batteries are ready and service appointments can be scheduled, GM has recommended that Bolt owners park their vehicles outside and limit their battery’s state of charge to 90 percent or lower. The company also recommended not letting the estimated range dip below 70 miles. GM says it is working with LG Chem to ramp up production of the replacement cells.

Earlier this month, President Biden signed an executive order that sets a goal of making half of all new cars sold by 2030 electric.

more here:

https://www.consumerreports.or...oncerns-a3566085147/

China Joe's executive order is a pipedream.

Shocking!

So not above a 90% charge and not less than 70 miles of range left. Whats that gives you about 50 miles of usable range ?

What a joke. Meanwhile, the rest of us fill our tank and haul ass wherever we want.

When "save the planet" morphs into "I can't drive my car to work and back"

Boy, I bet Volt owners are all fired up about this....

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Biden signed an executive order that sets a goal of making half of all new cars sold by 2030 electric.

.....doesn't mean they have to RUN.....

I mean, something that's been working for well over 100 years like the internal combustion engine, yeah, let's not use it anymore.

I will never buy a new GM again and if it weren't for the Corvette would never buy a GM.

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Originally posted by signewt:

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Biden signed an executive order that sets a goal of making half of all new cars sold by 2030 electric.

.....doesn't mean they have to RUN.....

Just gotta make that deadline and quota!

142K cars with battery replacement estimated costs of $1.8B makes it $12.6K per car - at their cost. That's a warranty cost of a little over 25% of the original price of the car.

Life's not Good for the owners and bean counters on this one.

2030 yea right.

In the immortal words of Kermit the Frog:

"It ain't easy being green"

I had this discussion just the other day with one of the tree-huggers.

"What's going to happen when the battery goes dead? How are they going to recycle all that plastic, lead and acid?"

"What?"

"Do you know what a battery is made out of?"

"Uhhhh, energy!"


"What's going to happen when they junk the car? When it's all rusted out, damaged beyond repair? You think the junkyard isn't going to be full of them?"

"Oh, they're going to run forever, because they're electric."



I seriously can't make this stuff up! There's a whole mess of stupid people out there!

We just had the first Mack electric garbage truck come in as a promo, demo, wow the masses.

Won't go a full day on a charge and it went dead in the lot.
Not impressed at all.

This is pretty good and very interesting (and longish) read on the reality and folly of “green” energy from the Manhatten Institute titled Mines, Minerals, and "Green" Energy: A Reality Check published 7/20.

I have passed it along to family and friends that are so concerned with ‘global warming’ that we need to move to renewable energy while we can before we all die in 10 years from said global warming. I really don’t hear too much in response.

A few of excerpts -

This paper turns to a different reality: all energy-producing machinery must be fabricated from materials extracted from the earth. No energy system, in short, is actually “renewable,” since all machines require the continual mining and processing of millions of tons of primary materials and the disposal of hardware that inevitably wears out. Compared with hydrocarbons, green machines entail, on average, a 10-fold increase in the quantities of materials extracted and processed to produce the same amount of energy.

Replacing hydrocarbons with green machines under current plans—never mind aspirations for far greater expansion—will vastly increase the mining of various critical minerals around the world. For example, a single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Averaged over a battery’s life, each mile of driving an electric car “consumes” five pounds of earth. Using an internal combustion engine consumes about 0.2 pounds of liquids per mile.

By 2050, with current plans, the quantity of worn-out solar panels—much of it nonrecyclable—will constitute double the tonnage of all today’s global plastic waste, along with over 3 million tons per year of unrecyclable plastics from worn-out wind turbine blades. By 2030, more than 10 million tons per year of batteries will become garbage.

For example, building a single 100-MW wind farm— never mind thousands of them—requires some 30,000 tons of iron ore and 50,000 tons of concrete, as well as 900 tons of nonrecyclable plastics for the huge blades.[6] With solar hardware, the tonnage in cement, steel, and glass is 150% greater than for wind, for the same energy output.

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Originally posted by Patriot:
Boy, I bet Volt owners are all fired up about this....

I see what you did there…

poor implementation of a bad idea

the vehicle isn’t ‘green’ because all you have done is shift the pollution source from the internal combustion engine to the generating plant that provides power to the charging station.

Not well thought out because depending on the location and the fuel source for the generating plant the so called green vehicle may actually contribute to an increase in overall pollution levels.

Cash for clunkers… or self immolation???

We had a Tesla crash here a month or so ago. Instantly caught fire. Double fatality. How they were charging it up here is a mystery.

The idea is not for GM to save the planet.

The idea is for GM to be able to tell the EPA to pound sand.

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The idea is for GM to be able to tell the EPA to pound sand.

As much as moving to an E-platform for motivation would give GM/ Ford et al the ability to get around all the pollution, Corp MPG crap, the EPA will come up with some test, some reason to continue to tax, test and fine manufacturing companies, they must, or cease to exist, and no government agency will self implode.. it just get "reinvented"

California would just change CalTrans for cars into another agency where they can extort money based on the large base of consumers... or taxes, fees, fines, regulations, requirements on E-Cars, based on size, battery use, total power consumption, there will be some fees and fines based on how far the vehicle goes and how much power it takes to charge it..

All of those defective batteries will have to go into a special landfill/holding space as they cannot be recycled and are full of hazardous materials.