Posted on 03/23/2012 10:02:36 AM PDT by jazusamo
General Motors announced yesterday that it would replace the 120-Volt charging unit provided with every Chevrolet Volt, to provide what GM spokesman Randy Fox called a "more consistent charging experience."
Back in July, we reported that some of the charging units provided in Volts were overheating, becoming too hot to touch and in one case, even giving an owner a second-degree burn.
Thicker cord
Now, after complaints from Volt owners, General Motors has agreed to swap out the unit for a beefed-up unit of the same design. Fox said upgrades to the design include a thicker cord from the unit to the wall socket.
Every 2011 or 2012 Chevy Volt built through last Friday, when the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant halted production for five weeks, will receive the new unit.
"It's not a safety recall," Fox told Reuters. "It's more of a customer satisfaction program."
Carried in car
The 120-volt charging unit, which GM often calls a “convenience charging cord," comes as standard with every Volt and is fitted into a recess under the load-bay floor.
The unit is comprised of a 120-volt domestic plug on one end, an electric charging unit in the middle, and a 16-foot cable with a J-1772 connector that plugs into the Volt's charging socket on the other.
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Not only is the car ludicrous, even the charger is. EPIC FAIL, nobama! Don’t you copmmies ever learn?
Not only is the car ludicrous, even the charger is. EPIC FAIL, nobama! Don’t you commies ever learn?
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Watt??
Ohm-my-goodness! Did you really have to say that?
The design was likely meddled with by an accountant that did not understand that resistance produces heat and large resistance produces large heat. The money saved by GM in using a too small gage wire is spent by the customer in energy waste.
The heat by the way is wasted energy. The amount of charging juice wasted to heat rather than charging is money just thrown away.
Maybe true!
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