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General Motors announces 8-year/100,000-mile warranty for Chevy Volt battery

Discussion in 'Chevrolet Volt' started by cwerdna, Jul 15, 2010.

  1. cwerdna

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    General Motors announces 8-year/100,000-mile warranty for Chevy Volt battery — Autoblog Green

     
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    Can you hear the death knell of the Volt ?
     
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    Is there a law or regulation in any state requiring a certain time period for battery warranties?
     
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    Don't know, but battery warranty questions came up a bunch of times at Executives online for live webchat at 4pm today to discuss Chevy Volt battery news — Autoblog Green.

    There was also this specific q & a:
    I did find stuff like www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevprog/factsheets/overview.pdf which is why PZEV vehicles have 15 year/150K mile emissions warranties and stuff like http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/inusecom/summaryofregulatorychanges030907.pdf that mentions the 10 year/150K part.

    Perhaps searches for keywords like "warranty site:ca.gov battery 10 years" would turn up more.
     
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    The only reason I'm bringing this up is because it's sort of like making a press statement that GM is following the law. No wait. It IS a press statement that GM is following the law.

     
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    If the car is SULEV it needs the 8 year warranty. This announcement means it won't qualify for PZEV. I'm not really sure that matters. The competing warranty for the leaf is only 5 years.

    Perhaps if CARB rules weren't so counter productive we would have a plug in prius right now available for public sale.
     
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    So true.

    Why are auto manufacturers who fought so hard to kill zero emission rules not getting this rule amended ?
     
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