Maybe you'll find a good price with all of the recent battery fire problems!
Bolt Truck not Leaf Truck
Spent some hours crawling all over every electric and hybrid I could.
I was wrong. My time spent fabricating a small truck has to yield a viable product.
Winner is the Chevy Bolt. Started looking seriously about 2 weeks ago and I will post my purchase.
Might take a while or could happen today.
I was wrong. My time spent fabricating a small truck has to yield a viable product.
Winner is the Chevy Bolt. Started looking seriously about 2 weeks ago and I will post my purchase.
Might take a while or could happen today.
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Actually, the battery box extends forward to under the front foot wells. The raised-up part of the battery box near the rear axle uses the space under the rear seat. Let's hope GM takes care of the fire problem with some kind of charging software fix.
Right - the Leaf battery ends under the front seat, but the Bolt's battery is under the entire cabin floor.Actually, the battery box extends forward to under the front foot wells. The raised-up part of the battery box near the rear axle uses the space under the rear seat.
GM says two Chevy Bolts caught fire after getting recall fix ...
and from the chevy volt forum:
Someone needs to invent a CarBQ Xtractor. An approx. 7 foot x 14 foot metal plate with say 6 small wheels (3 per side) that sits on your garage floor and you park your car on top of it. When it detects smoke/fire, it unlocks the wheels, activates the built-in garage door opener, and performs the preprogrammed extract routine: say back the car out and stop after 30 feet (with simple camera/sonar sensing while moving looking for obstacles). For EV's, it could even have a charging post where the tray has power receptacles: you plug your power into the tray and then your charger into the receptacle in the tray. That way the tray could mechanically kick out the cord going to the power at the wall and still extract the car (with the charging cable still attached).
Mike
and from the chevy volt forum:
Someone needs to invent a CarBQ Xtractor. An approx. 7 foot x 14 foot metal plate with say 6 small wheels (3 per side) that sits on your garage floor and you park your car on top of it. When it detects smoke/fire, it unlocks the wheels, activates the built-in garage door opener, and performs the preprogrammed extract routine: say back the car out and stop after 30 feet (with simple camera/sonar sensing while moving looking for obstacles). For EV's, it could even have a charging post where the tray has power receptacles: you plug your power into the tray and then your charger into the receptacle in the tray. That way the tray could mechanically kick out the cord going to the power at the wall and still extract the car (with the charging cable still attached).
Mike
I wish, March 2020 could have bought a $9999 Bolt pandemic special, it’s almost twice that now, if anything the more fires the more expensiveMaybe you'll find a good price with all of the recent battery fire problems!
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