Enlarge / To put out an EV blaze, a firefighter operates the nozzle from a remote control box. (credit: Rosenbauer) In April, a Tesla Model S crashed in The Woodlands, Texas, after the speeding driver failed to negotiate a turn and jumped the curb. The car then hit a drainage culvert and a raised maintenance […]
Enlarge (credit: Chevrolet) GM announced last Friday that it was recalling every Chevrolet Bolt it had ever made , including the new electric utility vehicle model that debuted this year. After a string of fires affected Bolt models, the company traced the problem to two simultaneously occurring defects in the cars’ LG Chem-made batteries. The […]
Enlarge / For now, it’s time to unplug when you get to 90 percent state of charge. (credit: Chevrolet) In November 2020, General Motors issued a recall of the Chevrolet Bolt EV due to a potential fire risk. Unfortunately for Bolt EV owners, that fix—a software patch—did not work, and now their cars are subject […]