Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV owners whose vehicles have received replacement battery modules or software updates following last year’s Bolt EV and EUV recall will be given a Chevrolet Certified Battery Update window cling to prove that their vehicle has received an update.
Per a recent report from The Detroit News, the new window clings will be sent to owners later this month, and will include a QR code that will allow parking lot attendees and garage owners to confirm which Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV units have received the recommended updates.
“We decided to make this cling available as the result of direct feedback from our owners. These clings will be available to owners who have completed the software update or battery module replacements from the dealer,” said Chevrolet spokesman Kevin Kelly.
Back in August, General Motors extended an existing recall for the Chevy Bolt EV to include all remaining model years, as well as the newly released Chevy Bolt EUV. The recall is for a manufacturing defect in the models’ battery pack, which may have a torn anode tab and folded separator in the same battery cell. The defect increases the risk of a fire.
A total of 18 fires globally have been tied to the manufacturing defect, with minimal injuries and no deaths. GM’s battery supplier, LG Electronics, will cover the majority of the recall costs, which is expected to total upwards of $2 billion.
As a reminder, the 2022 Chevy Bolt EV and 2022 Chevy Bolt EUV feature a 65 kWh lithium-ion battery, with the former rated at 259 miles per charge, and the latter rated at 247 miles per charge. Both models produce 200 horsepower and 266 pound-feet of torque, and are based on the GM BEV2 platform. Production takes place at the GM Lake Orion plant in Michigan, however, production has been suspended through February.
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Pic?
Yeah, give us a pic so people can start printing off their own
How many battery packs have been replaced in Chevrolet bolts? 10-20k? I think they have a long way to go to get all 140k batteries replaced.
5 have been replaced currently, replacement battery scheduled for June, 2099!
I had the battery replaced in my ’19 Bolt on December 13 at Deery Brothers in Pleasant Hill IA. The added range is nice.
Is the ‘window cling’ shaped like a lemon?
I swear why isn’t Hyundai getting the rotten tomatoes thrown at them?… They have had more fires world wide then GM has had… But nobody mentions that not only do Hyundai and Kia batteries catch fire but they also have a lawsuit going on for ICE ENGINE FIRES… I thought that ended with the Chevy Vega come on Hyundai.
To put some context to this comment: the ICE Hyundai products you are talking about had roughly the same total number of fires as the Bolt. However, the Hyundai and Kia products greatly outsold the Bolt. Therefore, the Bolt is more than twice as likely to spontaneously burst into flames. Not only us the Bolt 2x more likely to catch fire, but the battery fire is substantially harder to extinguish. This lowercase gm push is grabbing at low hanging, short terms profits and pandering as if it’s planning for long term sustainability.
I was contacted by the dealer in early December 2021 saying they were ordering a replacement battery for my 2017 Bolt. Since then, no more heard.
Owners are still going to be dealing with diminished value due to damaged reputation, window sticker or not. Having a window sticker isn’t much solace while waiting to get the battery fixed. Great, if the sticker dries up and falls off, I may denied access to public parking because they’re afraid my Bolt is about to spontaneously combust when they don’t see the sticker.
Dan Tobin Chevy Columbus Ohio who sold me my Bolt EV June 2021 are scam artists. I asked a million questions at purchase as I never bought an electric vehicle before. The incentive for sale was a charge station at your home, 6 months later after I got the station it was installed wrong. Then I find out that the cord supplied with the $40K purchase wouldn’t work with a 40amp charge station. Dan Tobin refused to make it right and told me to buy my own cord. I have an official complaint with GM to no avail. So yesterday I tried to trade the vehicle. Apparently in the State of Ohio it is illegal to take a trade or sell a trade with an active recall. So they called GM to find out timing on replacement batteries. They say up to two years wait. Then I find out that even with the new batteries cars are still burning up. This is an outrage. The car is worthless now and even with the recall “fixed”, I will be putting my life in jeopardy every time I drive it or plug it in on my house. For those of you that haven’t heard, GM is buying back these vehicles at sticker price all across the Country. I am reaching out to GM tomorrow morning and demanding a buy back as the “fix” isn’t working and as this reaches the media each day the $40K vehicle I bought will not be wanted and worth nothing. I will update as I go along but, I am not giving up and I will win.
Hi Judy,
I signed up and went through the process of the buy back program. I asked about what would be paid off? The whole loan or the amount of the vehicle at purchase time. I traded in a vehicle, that I still owed money on, but the Bolt at the time of sale had a ton of rebates. So, I had an understanding from the dealership that it wouldn’t be too much of a negative equity on the Bolt. So, when it got down to speaking with the final person for GM and their buy back program, I owed upwards of 10,000$ to GM. And in my state it is my responsibility to pay off the negative debt. I did have additional maintenance plans and the Gap plan which I dumped on the principal and it wasn’t enough. Ask lots of questions
The charge cord supplied with car is only for 110V charging. The charging cable for the 40amp station has its own cable that the installer should have connected when he installed it. As to fire with the new batteries I haven’t heard that nor have I found anything with a Google search. Can you please provide me with a link as this would concern me if this is true. But there is one more thing I have trouble understanding. I think that last I read there were 18 total Bolt fires resulting in zero deaths. This was a Kelly Blue Book article. Out of 100,000 gas powered cars there 1,530 fires. In 2018 there were over 500 deaths from gas car fires. I don’t see gas cars being banned from parking lots or parking them in your garage.
This will have absolutely zero impact on Bolt drivers trying to use parking lots. If management has put up a sign, a parking lot attendant will not go through a verification process to decide whether the vehicle is safe; management said no Bolts, so no Bolts.