Did this notice affect you or your old one?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...rom-other-cars
Excerpt:
This sounds awfully Apple-esque to me, e.g., "You're parking it wrong". Good luck to those who have to park in anything but the most deserted lots.The Bolt normally can go 259 miles on a charge, but that has been limited by GM’s guidance to avoid a fire. The automaker told Bolt owners to limit the charge to 90%, plug in more frequently and avoid depleting the battery to below about 70 miles of remaining range. They’re also advised to park their vehicles outside immediately after charging and not leave them charging indoors overnight.
The company will be telling Bolt owners who are concerned about parking in public places that it recommends keeping 50 feet from other cars in garages and lots, spokesman Dan Flores said.
yeah, the notion of parking something in my (attached) garage that is known to burst into flames is not tempting.
Maybe GM should sell an accessory front-end mask, because the vehicle already is required to practice social distancing.
I live in my current house (and have for 31 years) because my predecessor made a very bad decision involving a car and a gas can which tragically took his life and nearly set the house on fire.
Yes, this affects my car. Had 3 blissful, worry-free weeks of owning before the recall was expanded to the 2022s. My next door neighbor recently bought an EUV and he's not happy. At least mine was "free". However, the advice doesn't really affect me that much - I don't have a garage so it's always parked outside and charges outside. I capped the charge to 90% which turns out to be ~240 or so. Still plenty, but the "don't run down below 70" advice means there's no chance of any reasonably long road trip. Hahaha, actually, given the availability and reliability of chargers, especially DC Fast Chargers (NOT Tesla, oh no) across the Southeast US there was little to no chance of that anyway.
However it remains a great around town or even 150-ish mile car to drive. Lots of improvements > the 2017 I had...for sh*ts and giggles I am going through the repurchase process again just to see how much they'll offer me for a cash buyout. The problem is I don't want most of the other EVs out there for various reasons, having lived through "first model year syndrome" with the 2017 Bolt, and I don't want to pony up the significant diff for a Tesla m3 or mY. Likely they won't offer me much and I'll keep the Bolt and just wait until they replace the battery.
How about an electric Bentley? It sure is pretty.
man, that's gorgeous....
oh, update...that was not me smoking a corvette Z1 on I540 yesterday.....altho, it looked just liked me...
"One POSSIBLE future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.".... Kyle Reese
Update - I got my offer letter and GM offered me a stupidly high amount of money to buy my 22 Bolt EV back. Pondered this for a week but after consulting a few trusted advisors I'm going to stay pat. Partly it's not really having time or mental bandwidth to deal with what I'd replace it with, and also partly what I said before about any other non-Tesla EVs that are out there - immature and not available any time soon. I don't want to shell out for a Tesla which would still be a significant chunk of change over what GM was ready to give me. Many other things in my life I'd rather do with those $ and even so they just aren't available - new or used.
I may change my mind if they don't make progress on battery replacements.
I hadn't seen this one about the new Mercedes electric. No more charging stations.
Linky.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
that could have some legs
mercedes looked good...
"One POSSIBLE future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.".... Kyle Reese
Jay Leno likes the GM Hummer EV with a 350 mile charge.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...080101108.html
so, with gas up to $3.50 a gal (in triangle) my tesla purchase it looking pretty timely...
"One POSSIBLE future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.".... Kyle Reese