Hyundai Motor sued over EV battery fires
GM: Chevrolet Bolt EV recall 2nd: Due to LG battery
-LG battery is “risk of ignition”-
July 23
US GM:
The Chevrolet Bolt EV battery has announced that it may catch fire.
Notified to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of the US Department of Transportation.
Last year:
This is the second recall of the Chevrolet Bolt EV.
This recall issue:
The impact of this recall issue is significant.
First of all, it is a pain for the electrification of GM.
Korean battery industry:
LG Chem and its group companies that manufactured the battery in question.
Korean battery
Regarding battery manufacturing including material aspects
LG Chem’s ignition problem is difficult to solve
It will be difficult to open new shares of affiliated companies and raise funds for research and development.
GM and LG Chem:
Since the Chevrolet Bolt EV, the relationship between GM and LG Chem / LG Energy Solutions has been strengthened.
The symbol is the joint venture-developed EV platform “Altium.”
Currently, LG Energy Solutions is planning to go public in order to strengthen its in-vehicle battery business.
SankeiBiz:
https://www.sankeibiz.jp/business/news/210730/bsc2107301132007-n1.htm
GM issues new recall for nearly 69,000 Bolt EVs for fire risks
WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters)
General Motors Co (GM.N)
said Friday it is issuing a new recall for nearly 69,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles (EVs) worldwide
for fire risks after reports of two fires and will replace defective battery modules as needed.
The Bolt EVs
were recalled in November for fire risks and at least one of the two new fires was in a vehicle that had already had the software update released as part of that recall
The largest U.S. automaker
said “experts from GM and (battery maker) LG have identified the simultaneous presence of two rare manufacturing defects in the same battery cell as the root cause of battery fires in certain Chevrolet Bolt EVs.”
GM has confirmed nine total Bolt fires.
GM said that all of the nearly 69,000 Bolt owners should return their vehicles to a 90% state of charge limitation that the company first instructed owners to use in November before the recall fix had been completed.
The automaker also asked owners
to charge their vehicle after each use and avoid depleting the battery below approximately 70 miles of remaining range, where possible, to reduce the risk of a fire.
Reuters