GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other cars

Post by NotSammyHagar » Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 6:25 AM UTC

genericuser314 wrote: post #176

NotSammyHagar wrote: post #22

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I think it would be good. If you drive your car or charge it out of those ranges it can catch on fire. Removing that area of "ordinary things you can do with your car and it might make it burn up" is exactly why that is important to consider. There must be hundreds of thousands of bolts and at least some of those customers have not heard about this. The other side of it is hey you took something away from my car and…

> There must be hundreds of thousands of bolts 99,356 in USA & Canada, per this number: https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/chevrolet-bolt-sales-figures-u... I was curious about this so I looked it up, you might think it is interesting too.

Thanks for actual data to correct my guess!

Post by cyounkins » Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 10:50 PM UTC

WorldMaker wrote: post #417

worrycue wrote: post #272

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I don’t know about giving occupants more time to get out. I have seen the carpark video of a Tesla going up in flames in China. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-04-22/tesla-inves... Thing went from 0 to 110 real quick.

From an exterior perspective of a parked car certainly that would look like the case. The interior software in an operating Tesla has very loud warnings as soon as the first firewall breaks between cells which according to multiple incidents happens at least 5-10 minutes before enough cells hit critical temperatures that the entire vehicle becomes fire. Far more warning than an ICE fire. There's probably a case to ma…

> Tesla has very loud warnings as soon as the first firewall breaks between cells

I searched but wasn't able to find a video of this. Any reference?

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