3 Jul 2023, 17:15 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The Israeli startup ALGOLiON developed "sophisticated software" that monitors the health of battery packs to anticipate problems and prevent fires.
15 Feb 2022, 23:54 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / It eventually will, but only when the American automaker scheduled that to happen: by 2023, while the Bolt EUV will die in 2024.
2 Feb 2022, 18:11 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / In the same tweet in which he attacked Tom Krisher, Musk also said the FSD recall was not about safety and downplayed the speed of FSD’s rolling stops.
18 Oct 2021, 07:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Stellantis and LGES will make a joint venture to produce cells for electric cars in the U.S. for delivering up to 40 GWh in batteries by 2024
12 Oct 2021, 12:55 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / According to Reuters, the cost division has included LG Chem, which owns LGES, and LG Electronics, which assembles the battery packs
20 Sep 2021, 22:00 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The automaker expects the first components to reach dealerships by mid-October. It also promises a software safeguard to monitor the cells.
17 Sep 2021, 10:33 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / It would be waiting to have trustworthy batteries from LGES. However, if that is really the case, the company may get back to production only in November
16 Sep 2021, 13:19 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The new precaution does not show up on the recall page, but should be followed by all owners until their cars get the proper repair
14 Sep 2021, 14:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Although this is ultimately on GM, the company warned owners more than once that they should not park inside until the recall is done.
13 Sep 2021, 17:47 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The companies tried to make it sound like some trivial procedure, but it only reveals how LGES has to step up its game quickly.
21 Aug 2021, 07:14 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / A torn anode tab and a folder separator would have caused the fires. The additional cost for the recall will be $1 billion.
6 Aug 2021, 10:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company released its Q2 2021 results and included that its net income of $2.8 billion was affected by $800 million in Bolt EV warranty recall costs.
23 Jul 2021, 14:42 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company announced that it has identified with LG “two rare manufacturing defects in the same battery cell” that cause the fires.
15 Jul 2021, 11:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The company said that in a recall update, also asking that the car is not charged overnight. There has been a second fire already.
9 Jul 2021, 16:12 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / GM refused to talk if the repair would be enough when it released it. The new blaze screams that it may not be the case.