What's even worse is that as a Bolt owner for almost 3 years now, we've been seeing all sorts of bans on Bolt parking:
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It's even extended to my work.
I have no other car. I've pushed back citing all sorts of other examples of non-EVs being recalled for catching fire while off and having done so + the stats like at
No more buy-backs I was told today and examples like
If you own one of these cars, vans or SUVs, don’t park them in a garage, automaker says "Two weeks ago, Hyundai and Kia alerted the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about a rare but dangerous defect discovered in 10 Hyundai Elantras that caught fire while parked and off.". Still have seen no signs they will relax it.
I offered to park on the roof of our parking structure (parking only, no offices or rooms underneath) or surface lot away from others and buildings. Office turnout is still super low due to COVID WFH. I've seen that our security has been flagging Bolts if they see any and reporting them to powers that be. I wouldn't be surprised if some anti-EV group like the fossil fuel industry is behind this garbage and spreading FUD.
The problem is that it will take a very long time to replace the packs. GM's is replacing packs on all '17 to '19 out of caution since they have no reliable way of identifying which packs contain defective cells (they've maintained that they estimate 1% of the vehicles have the defect). For '20 to '22, they said they will try to replace only defective modules if they can find a validated way to identify those and replace just those. But, for now, the recall procedures call for both to receive entire replacement packs (w/the same part number for both).
There are somewhere between 140K to 160K Bolts in the world (some unsold and can't be due to stop sale). GM hasn't ever sold over 50K Bolts in a year. It's unclear how how much battery production can be ramped up.
They're prioritizing replacements by which ones they believe may have clusters of defects and charging habits. We've been given no ETA but since I have a US pack '19 Bolt, I could be waiting over a year. '19 Korean-made pack Bolts seem to be the riskiest, followed by '17. For the rest, we don't know.