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Exactly. It's played out at virtually every EV manufacturer, regardless of their experience. General Motors, for example: GM advising some Bolt EV owners to
by beambot 4y ago
Exactly. It's played out at virtually every EV manufacturer, regardless of their experience. General Motors, for example:
GM advising some Bolt EV owners to park 50 feet away from other cars in case of fire
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/gm-advising-some-bolt-ev-owners-to-park-50-feet-away-from-other-cars.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/gm-advising-some-bolt-ev-own...
People love to dig on Tesla, but they're through the gauntlet & emerging out the other side -- easily a multi-year headstart. Everyone else still has a lot of pain to endure...
- chipsa 4y agoThe Bolt recall isn't a GM issue, it's a LG battery issue. Which... GM isn't the only company using LG batteries. The Hyundai Kona, for example, got hit with a similar recall. Ditto the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid. Ditto some home batteries. I'd be unsurprised if Ford has to do one for the Mach-E.
- beambot 4y agoMany components of the traditional automakers' vehicles are outsourced to common suppliers. That doesn't give them a free pass when the vehicle doesn't perform as desired -- it's a product defect regardless of which supplier owns the root cause.
- anarticle 4y agoThat becomes their problem when the headline reads “Bolt Burns Down Home and Dog”