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Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by NotSammyHagar on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:34PM (#28545869)
I think it would be good. If you drive your car or charge it out of those ranges it can catch on fire. Removing that area of "ordinary things you can do with your car and it might make it burn up" is exactly why that is important to consider. There must be hundreds of thousands of bolts and at least some of those customers have not heard about this. The other side of it is hey you took something away from my car and I don't like that. GM has to deal with this by fixing people's cars and giving them monetary compensation.
Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by rrix2 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:58PM (#28546094)
Cool, but if i bought a low cost electric car specifically because my commute range allowed for it, for example, until your "bug fixes and changes" OTA was quietly force-pushed and i find myself on the highway with a dead battery, i'm likely to set the fkn thing on fire myself...
Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by dvdkon on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:04AM (#28549542)
Obviously the manufacturer should compensate its customers, it's just better to have an EV with worse range than an unsafe EV or even a pile of scrap (if they all got recalled and probablt not fixed).
Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by genericuser314 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:41PM (#28546420)
> There must be hundreds of thousands of bolts

99,356 in USA & Canada, per this number: https://www.goodcarbadcar.net/chevrolet-bolt-sales-figures-u...

I was curious about this so I looked it up, you might think it is interesting too.

Re:GM tells some Bolt owners to park 50 feet away from other... by NotSammyHagar on Sunday September 19, 2021 @02:25AM (#28582130)
Thanks for actual data to correct my guess!