Chevy Bolt EV, Bolt EUV Production Offline For Remainder Of Year
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Production of the Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV will remain offline for the rest of 2021 as the automaker prioritizes getting repair parts to customers affected by the battery fire recall.
GM reopened the Lake Orion Assembly plant on November 1st after production of the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV was put on pause in August amid the battery fire recall investigation. The plant only remained open for about two weeks, however, as GM worked to optimize battery production and sort out various supply chain problems for the two compact EVs.
In a statement sent to The Detroit News this week, GM spokesman Dan Flores confirmed the Lake Orion Assembly plant would not reopen for regular series production of the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV until early next year.
“GM has notified employees at Orion Assembly the plant will take downtime for the remainder of the 2021 calendar year,” Flores said. “This decision will enable us to continue prioritizing recall repairs. We will continue to inform employees at the appropriate time of any additional production schedule adjustments in early 2022, as we continue to focus on battery module replacements.”
The Lake Orion facility was closed in August after GM widened its recall of the Chevy Bolt EV to include all Bolt vehicles produced from the 2017-2022 model years, as well as the 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV crossover. The recall now includes a total of 140,000 vehicles, many of which will need their battery modules replaced entirely. The recall campaign is expected to total $2 billion USD, most of which will be covered by GM’s battery supplier partner, LG Electronics Inc.
Battery pack production for the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV restarted in mid-September as Chevy began producing replacement packs for existing customer vehicles. GM said previously that it would “work aggressively with LG to obtain additional battery supply,” for recalled units.
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… you can not sell what you do not have …
Big savings on advertising. What a cluster……..
Send the chips from these monstrositys over to the trucks.
I wonder how Bolt owners are going to get their replacement batteries. What kind of procedure will be in place? Will owners be contacted by GM? By dealers? Or will owners have to contact dealers —
I’ve been babying my Bolt since I bought it in 2017 – operating with battery charge kept between 20-80 %, etc. Never used its quick charge capability – I now will try it out without shame…
I called EVChevy, and they told me that you are suppose to get a letter telling you when you can get your battery replaced. The representative asked for the vin of my 2019 Bolt, and told me that she put in a recall order for the battery. She gave me a case number, and told me to call back in two weeks if I have not been contacted about the status of my recall order. Hope this helps.
GM should just use the remaining Bolts made as loaners then write them off. Wasting more money trying to get anything out of these in terms of sales is pointless.
The line probably caught on fire
About time GM!
Stop burning down 🔥 your loyal environmentalists homes 🏡 with these combustible battery 🔋 pack explosive 💥 EVeryday nightmare vehicles! Having to rebuild all those expensive modern homes is hurting our forests 🌳 !!! 🤓
Tesla has had more fires, more crashes from auto pilot failures but apparently they somehow avoid all that bad publicity and trolls like we find here. Makes one wonder
Tesla was not ordered to not park it at your own home. Not complicated John.
when tesla sell 100X the volume.. yes you will see more incidents John 😂 its not hard comprehend
The reintroduction of the Bolt EUV will be a good test of Chevy’s marketing department and dealers.
If they can sell this decently priced vehicle, which exceeds any other EV in its price range, in rising numbers, then they should be retained.
If not, then it’s time for some re-education and replacement if GM is really committed to the environment and phasing out petroleum powered vehicles.
Imagine the loss of value when you drive one of these roaches off the lot!
Now production will equal demand! It’s the Bolt not sales that are on fire.
well i have not been a fan of fully electric cars for a number of reasons but this fire issue is enough to keep me from buying one in the near future. Mr Biden maybe we should take it slower til all the issues are resolved!
Haha if Silly people do not want these vehicles – all well and good!
Easy for me to say since I bought my 2022 Bolt EUV back in June, and got great trade-in value for my 69,000 mile 2017 Bolt EV…Overall, besides being newer and with an 8% larger battery, the car is a better value besides. One nonsensical comment here stated the cars have no-trade-in value – HA!!!!
I try to see the ICE driver’s here point of view, but the comments are continually so moronic that I would hope they are not typical of the run-of-the-mill GM buyer.
I’ve owned a Tesla in the past – trading it in on the very fine 2014 Caddy ELR which I still own… 90,000 miles and overall, low cost per mile…. I may or may not be trading it in – in the next few years…
The more modern Teslas went from having DANGEROUS batteries, to finally somewhat acceptable… The very faulty Autopilots in them I don’t particularly worry about, since I would not drive my car such as to be dependent on any Tesla Decision Making. But the rest of the car I do not consider sufficiently substantial compared to the price they charge, and hence, feel they are a poor value when driven in Snow Bound locales such as mine. Out of warranty costs I still expect Tesla owners will raise their eyebrows at, and the 100,000 Teslas Hertz supposedly is purchasing should be an eye-opener in either a good, or as I expect – a bad way.
Haha if supercilious people do not want these vehicles – all well and good!
Easy for me to say since I bought my 2022 Bolt EUV back in June, and got great trade-in value for my 69,000 mile 2017 Bolt EV…Overall, besides being newer and with an 8% larger battery, the car is a better value besides. One nonsensical comment here stated the cars have no-trade-in value – HA!!!!
I try to see the ICE driver’s here point of view, but the comments here have such a dearth of intelligence that I would hope they are not typical of the run-of-the-mill GM buyer.
I’ve owned a Tesla in the past – trading it in on the very fine 2014 Caddy ELR which I still own… 90,000 miles and overall, low cost per mile…. I may or may not be trading it in – in the next few years…
The more modern Teslas went from having DANGEROUS batteries, to finally somewhat acceptable… The very faulty Autopilots in them I don’t particularly worry about, since I would not drive my car such as to be dependent on any Tesla Decision Making. But the rest of the car I do not consider sufficiently substantial compared to the price they charge, and hence, feel they are a poor value when driven in Snow Bound locales such as mine. Out of warranty costs I still expect Tesla owners will raise their eyebrows at, and the 100,000 Teslas Hertz supposedly is purchasing should be an eye-opener in either a good, or as I expect – a bad way.
Haha if supercilious people do not want these vehicles – all well and good!
Easy for me to say since I bought my 2022 Bolt EUV back in June, and got great trade-in value for my 69,000 mile 2017 Bolt EV…Overall, besides being newer and with an 8% larger battery, the car is a better value besides. One of the more intelligent comments here stated the cars have no-trade-in value – HA!!!!
I try to see the ICE driver’s here point of view, but the comments here have such a dearth of intelligence that I would hope they are not typical of the run-of-the-mill GM buyer.
I’ve owned a Tesla in the past – trading it in on the very fine 2014 Caddy ELR which I still own… 90,000 miles and overall, low cost per mile…. I may or may not be trading it in – in the next few years…
The more modern Teslas went from having DANGEROUS batteries, to finally somewhat acceptable… The very faulty Autopilots in them I don’t particularly worry about, since I would not drive my car such as to be dependent on any Tesla Decision Making. But the rest of the car I do not consider sufficiently substantial compared to the price they charge, and hence, feel they are a poor value when driven in Snow Bound locales such as mine. Out of warranty costs I still expect Tesla owners will raise their eyebrows at, and the 100,000 Teslas Hertz supposedly is purchasing should be an eye-opener in either a good, or as I expect – a bad way.