GM will set up system on Chevy Streak EVs to extinguish future battery fires

Following closing one year’s remove, GM has outlined a realizing to fix the reveal that caused 5 Chevy Streak battery fires between 2017 and 2019. In a post spotted by The Verge, the automaker says Streak owners will want to take their vehicle to their native GM dealership for carrier, where a mechanic will originate an overview of the battery and substitute it if they salvage any “anomalies.” On the the same time, they’ll set up novel diagnostic system GM says can detect doable elements sooner than they turn out to be serious. The mechanic can even take the 90 p.c charging cap GM implemented when it first issued the remove.

Within the coming months, GM plans to push the diagnostic system to varied Streak EV models. It goes to also attain fashioned with all future GM electrical automobiles. Within the meantime, if you dangle a 2019 Streak EV, your vehicle is eligible for carrier now. These with 2017 and 2018 models need to attend unless the quit of Can also merely to e book their appointment. Closing one year, Hyundai recalled 25,564 Kona EVs in South Korea. Every GM and Hyundai sourced their batteries from LG Chem. On the time, the firm told Reuters it wasn’t ready to pinpoint the pickle off of the Kona fires but stated it had concluded its cells weren’t accountable.