General Motors to Expand its Chevrolet Bolt EVs Recall Due to Fires

The automobile giant General Motors said, it is going to be expanding the company’s recent recall of the Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles to the new models of the electric car because of the potential risk associated with fire.

The expansion of the recall has been expected to cost the company an additional sum of around 1 billion dollars, which has been responsible in bringing the total to 1.8 billion dollars for the purpose of replacing the potentially defective modules in the cars and the company said, around 73,000 vehicles across the United States and Canada are also being added to the recall expansion from the 2019 to 2022 model years, which is also including a recently introduced version of the EV known as Bolt EUV.

The previous recall had been involving around 69,000 cars across the globe from the model years of 2017 to 2019, which was also including around 51,000 cars in the United States, and this expansion of the recall is currently including all the Chevrolet Volt electric cars that were ever manufactured, which is responsible in casting the shadow over the first mainstream fully electric vehicle of General Motors, as the company is attempting to sell the electric vehicles by 2035 exclusively.

General Motors is now recommending that includes all the drivers of the Chevrolet Bolt to set the charging limitation of the vehicle to 90 percent along with avoiding the depletion of the battery less than a travel range of 70 miles.