Some Chevy Bolt EV fashions are as soon as once more being recalled over a possible difficulty that may result in a car hearth. This time it has nothing to do with the battery pack or electrical propulsion.

“GM is voluntarily recalling sure 2017-2023 mannequin 12 months Chevrolet Bolt EV autos on account of uncommon cases of entrance seat belt pretensioner exhaust gases coming in touch with ground carpeting fibers, after a car crash,” defined GM in a press release offered to Inexperienced Automotive Stories. 

The recall doesn’t apply to Bolt EUV fashions, nor does it apply to Bolt EVs put to make use of by GM’s Cruise autonomous-driving enterprise. The Bolt EV stays some of the reasonably priced new EVs obtainable within the U.S.

2022 Chevrolet Bolt EV

Seat belt pretensioners primarily cinch the belt tight simply earlier than or throughout an influence, permitting seat belts to operate as examined, and to maintain passengers in place for different security techniques similar to airbags. 

The difficulty may end in a car hearth if the carpet ignites. In keeping with GM, that’s resulted in three “doubtlessly related discipline incidents.”

The recall, posted Monday by Transport Canada, has not but been posted by its U.S. NHTSA counterpart. In Canada, the recall impacts 19,898 autos from these mannequin years. GM says that the recall will contain 119,950 autos within the U.S., including as much as 139,848 affected autos in North America.

GM defined that, as an answer, sellers will set up steel foil on the carpet close to the pretensioner exhaust. 

2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV

Chevy Bolt EV homeowners—and dealerships—are all too acquainted with large-scale recollects. In 2021, GM tackled a battery-fire-related recall of the Bolt EV that utilized to each Bolt EV made, resulting in a full battery-pack substitute for a big portion of the older car inhabitants from the 2017-2019 mannequin years. GM misplaced many months of Bolt EV and EUV manufacturing because it struggled to acquire sufficient battery packs for brand spanking new autos and recall replacements, and finally LG agreed to pay GM $1.9 billion for the manufacturing defects behind the difficulty.