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Earlier this year, a Chevrolet Volt caught fire while stationary at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Winsconsin facility car park, three weeks after it had been subjected to a side-impact crash test on May 12.
- Case Closed: Nhtsa Clears Chevrolet Volt On Fire Risk, Says Everything's Okay Now
All ends well for General Motors as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced today that it is officially closing the safety defect probe into the post-crash fire risk of the Chevrolet Volt. The federal safety agency stated...
- Gm Announces Fix For Chevrolet Volt To Address Safety Concerns Over Fires
As Toyota found out the hard way, when there's a safety issue on hand, no matter how small or unlikely the possibility of something going wrong on a customer's car is, in the long run, it's much better to address the problem before someone...
- Fisker Karma's Batteries May Have Potential Safety Issue
It may be little consolation to LG Chem, which manufactures the Chevy Volt lithium-ion pack that is currently under investigation by NHTSA, but GM’s hybrid isn’t the only one facing a battery-related fire risk. Another maker of batteries...
- Gm Says Anxious Volt Owners May Get Any Loaner They Wish - Even A Corvette!
You’ve got to hand it to General Motors: even though the Chevrolet Volt is currently in the middle of a formal fire investigation by the NHTSA, it looks like it can still generate good publicity out of it. Cooperating with the safety agency to...
- Nhtsa Probes Chevrolet Volt After Battery Catches Fire
Federal safety regulators are looking into the safety of lithium-ion batteries after a Chevrolet Volt went up in flames at a parking lot at the National Highway Traffic Administration testing center in Wisconsin. An agency official said that the incident...
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NHTSA Opens Formal Investigation on Chevy Volt and Li-ion Batteries after New Crash Tests Result in Fire
Earlier this year, a Chevrolet Volt caught fire while stationary at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Winsconsin facility car park, three weeks after it had been subjected to a side-impact crash test on May 12.
Alerted by the incident, General Motors and NHTSA repeated the test in June, but failed to replicate the fire. GM spokesman Greg Martin had said at the time that the fire was most likely caused because the agency staff had not followed the proper safety procedures mandated by the company for handling the Volt and its battery after an accident
Nevertheless, NHTSA joined forces with the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, as well as General Motors, to determine the safety levels of the Volt’s lithium-ion batteries.
Read more »- Case Closed: Nhtsa Clears Chevrolet Volt On Fire Risk, Says Everything's Okay Now
All ends well for General Motors as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced today that it is officially closing the safety defect probe into the post-crash fire risk of the Chevrolet Volt. The federal safety agency stated...
- Gm Announces Fix For Chevrolet Volt To Address Safety Concerns Over Fires
As Toyota found out the hard way, when there's a safety issue on hand, no matter how small or unlikely the possibility of something going wrong on a customer's car is, in the long run, it's much better to address the problem before someone...
- Fisker Karma's Batteries May Have Potential Safety Issue
It may be little consolation to LG Chem, which manufactures the Chevy Volt lithium-ion pack that is currently under investigation by NHTSA, but GM’s hybrid isn’t the only one facing a battery-related fire risk. Another maker of batteries...
- Gm Says Anxious Volt Owners May Get Any Loaner They Wish - Even A Corvette!
You’ve got to hand it to General Motors: even though the Chevrolet Volt is currently in the middle of a formal fire investigation by the NHTSA, it looks like it can still generate good publicity out of it. Cooperating with the safety agency to...
- Nhtsa Probes Chevrolet Volt After Battery Catches Fire
Federal safety regulators are looking into the safety of lithium-ion batteries after a Chevrolet Volt went up in flames at a parking lot at the National Highway Traffic Administration testing center in Wisconsin. An agency official said that the incident...