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GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
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Re: GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
#12> The automaker told Bolt owners to limit the charge to 90 percent, plug in more frequently and avoid depleting the battery to below about 70 miles of remaining range. Tesla's approach here would be to issue an OTA update that told your car to treat 90% as 100% and 25% as 0. I can't decide if I like that better or worse.
I think there's the 5 second cool factor but after that novelty you're probably just as disgruntled as the fact that you lost 35% of the range for your car. I hope the Chevy bolt is a rare case and stories like this don't pop up with the other upcoming electric vehicles. The new lightning F150 looks very attractive.
I heard really good things about the EV mustang from Ford. I wouldn't take this to be representative of EVs in general, but rather a remark on GM.
Re: GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
#13I would think the well publicized early failures of large Lithium ion battery technology (787 burning down while docked at a gate, the various Tesla fires and Samsung Note phones being banned from planes) would have taught enough lessons to eliminate these risks in the future.
I haven't dug into the details of the "manufacturing defect" at LG's battery plants - seems like a failure in Quality Control.
I also don't know why GM cannot just bring in the battery packs and test/replace the faulty cells, unless the problem is so widespread it affects ALL cells in all packs.
Re: GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
#14I would think the well publicized early failures of large Lithium ion battery technology (787 burning down while docked at a gate, the various Tesla fires and Samsung Note phones being banned from planes) would have taught enough lessons to eliminate these risks in the future. I haven't dug into the details of the "manufacturing defect" at LG's battery plants - seems like a failure in Quality Control. I also don't kn…
They did try replacing faulty cells and modules before the full recall, even though other manufacturers using the same LG cells were doing a full recall and replace. They also tried software fixes. I dont know enough to understand why it did not work.
Re: GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
#15The Chevy volt model as established in the early 2010s is an arm and a leg beyond the next closest competitor in the electric automobile space and this is a smirch upon its namespace
Re: GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
#16> The automaker told Bolt owners to limit the charge to 90 percent, plug in more frequently and avoid depleting the battery to below about 70 miles of remaining range. Tesla's approach here would be to issue an OTA update that told your car to treat 90% as 100% and 25% as 0. I can't decide if I like that better or worse.
They should have limited the charge from the beginning. No way the engineers didn’t realize deep cycling is bad for the battery.
Re: GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
#17So what is a family with a two car garage supposed to do, park the Bolt a block away? This seems like the kind of thing GM should get wayyyy in front of with a very generous offer to buy back the cars as a trade towards another GM model.
Re: GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
#18Reminder that CA is planning to ban ICE vehicles by 2035: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/23/governor-newsom-announces-...
Do you feel ready for that? I don’t…
Re: GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think there's the 5 second cool factor but after that novelty you're probably just as disgruntled as the fact that you lost 35% of the range for your car. I hope the Chevy bolt is a rare case and stories like this don't pop up with the other upcoming electric vehicles. The new lightning F150 looks very attractive.
I heard really good things about the EV mustang from Ford. I wouldn't take this to be representative of EVs in general, but rather a remark on GM.
Is it GM or LG for making bunk batteries? TFA clearly states that GM believes they will be recouping this money from LG.
Re: GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars
#20That's insane. For (probably) a majority of owners it makes the car unusable if you adhere to that restriction.
If I had one then I would have nowhere to park it. Certainly not at work. And at home with once car in the driveway and another in front of the house they couldn't be 50 feet apart. In tightly packed houses even one driveway to the next isn't 50 feet apart.
If you went shopping and we're lucky enough to manage to find a space 50 feet away, there's no guarantee someone wouldn't park closer, though I can't even think of a place I go where finding such a spot in the first place is at all likely.