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Your EV discount might carry a steep legal cost:
Chevy offered rebates to Bolt EV owners who bought their cars just before a 2023 model price drop, but that discount comes with a large catch. Jalopnik and Autoblog note the rebate application requires that drivers "forever waive and release" their right to sue GM or LG over the Bolt's reported battery defect. You'd have to be content with the savings even if the car did serious damage, in other words. GM confirmed the agreement language with Engadget.
GM first recalled the Bolt in November 2020 after reports of battery fires between 2017 and 2019. The automaker tried addressing the issue with a software update in April 2021, but two subsequent fires and a second recall led the NHTSA to warn against parking indoors. That prompted a July 2021 recall where GM replaced the battery packs. The brand eventually recalled all manufactured Bolts, pledged an additional $1 billion for battery replacements and offered an eight-year, 100,000-mile warranty on substitute batteries.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday August 09 2022, @01:27PM
What's more, my neighbor dug this dry hole when he was in his 70s. Dangling from a rope, and the hole was only about two feet across. If he hadn't passed away a few years back, I'm sure he'd be right interested in a faster-drilling DIY rig! (Cuz when I said the ground resembled concrete, I did not exaggerate. I had a young feller digging a drain pit, and at eight feet hit calichi and took a full day to achieve two more inches... we decided any deeper needed dynamite, and the present depth would have to do.)
Yeah, I'm not a holes and mines type myself. Unstable rock overhead gives me hives.
Anywhere built up enough to have sufficient charging stations, I don't want to live. Even if charging stations existed in the middle of nowhere, I'm sure waiting for the charge to happen when it's -40 will be real pleasant, if a battery that cold will take the charge at all. And here ... well, once I get out of town, there are stretches where it's 50 miles or more to the nearest electricity, and then it's a single line running from ranch to ranch. Who's gonna pay for the infrastructure? since we're busy getting rid of all the reliable electricity, how do they plan to refine the needful copper, never mind get it out of the ground? Oh, we don't like giant open-pit mines, cuz environment?? (One estimate laid out that if everyone in the U.S. switched to EVs, we'd need 5x the current grid capacity, and there's not enough copper in the world. And the all wind-and-solar mining-requirements estimate makes that look downright doable, not to mention that "out in the desert" solar is scorched-earth destructive to a fragile habitat.) Self-charging hybrids are reasonable. All-EV is a failure to perform basic arithmetic, and a belief that since it happens out of urban sight, the necessary components to all-EV spring fullblown from the brow of Zeus.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.