$150M GM, LG settlement to resolve Chevy Bolt battery overheating litigation

Chevy Bolt battery overheating overview: 

• Who: General Motors and LG reached a $150 million class action settlement with Chevrolet Bolt owners.
• Why: Plaintiffs claimed that more than 100,000 2017-2022 Chevrolet Bolt vehicles were manufactured with faulty batteries. 
• Where: The GM settlement took place in federal court in Michigan.

General Motors and LG reached a $150 million class action settlement with Chevrolet Bolt owners after accusations that 100,000 model year 2017-2022 Bolts were manufactured with faulty batteries that can overheat.

The Chevy Bolt battery overheating issue can occur when the battery is fully charged, leading to a risk of the batteries catching fire, plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit had claimed.

All Chevy Bolt vehicles are eligible for recalls including the installation of an advanced N2.2 battery or software upgrades to monitor battery health for some vehicles that were sold with N2.2 batteries, the GM settlement says.

More than 22K Bolts with N2.2 batteries get software, battery monitoring

The LG settlement calls for each of the approximately 22,560 class members who own or lease 2020–2022 Chevy Bolts with certain N2.2 batteries to continue to receive updated software.

Battery capacity will be capped at 80% for the first 6,214 miles of use after installation of the updated software, the LG settlement says.

If an anomaly occurs during that time, a free battery pack replacement will be offered.

In December 2021, General Motors was hit with a class action lawsuit over allegations that its electric vehicles can spontaneously catch on fire just a month after the vehicles were recalled worldwide. 

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The plaintiffs are represented by E. Powell Miller, Sharon S. Almonrode, Peter Muhic, Dennis A. Lienhardt and Mitchell J. Kendrick of The Miller Law Firm PC; Gretchen Freeman Cappio, Ryan McDevitt and Sydney Read of Keller Rohrback LLP; David C. Wright, Mark I. Richards, Richard D. McCune and Steven A. Haskins of McCune Wright Aravelo LLP; Roberta Liebenberg, Gerard A. Dever and Mary L. Russell of Fine, Kaplan and Black RPC; Nicholas A. Migliaccio and Jason S. Rathod of Migliaccio & Rathod LLP; Todd Friedman and David B. Levin of the Law Offices of Todd M. Friedman PC; and Timothy N. Mathews, Beena M. McDonald, Samantha E. Holbrook and Alex M. Kashurba of Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP.

The LG and GM class action lawsuit settlement is In re Chevrolet Bolt EV Battery Litigation, Case No. 2:20-13256-TGB-CI, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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