General Motors Co mentioned Tuesday it’s recalling 140,000 Chevrolet Bolt EVs in North America as a result of the carpet might catch hearth after a crash the place a entrance seat belt pretensioner deploys.
The U.S. automaker mentioned the recall covers varied 2017 by 2023 model-year Chevrolet Bolt EV automobiles attributable to uncommon situations of entrance seatbelt pre-tensioner exhaust gases coming involved with flooring carpeting fibers, after a car crash, which might trigger a hearth.
About 120,000 U.S. automobiles and 20,000 Canadian automobiles are impacted by the recall.
