From owner-ev1-club@anteroom.its.caltech.edu Thu Mar 2 14:27:47 2000 X-Sender: gregzefiro@zefiro.com Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 14:24:59 -0800 To: ev1-club@cco.caltech.edu From: Greg Hanssen Subject: [EV1-CLUB] GM Press release Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-ev1-club@its.caltech.edu Precedence: bulk Thursday, March 2, 2000 GM Recalls 900 Electric Cars, Trucks DETROIT--General Motors Corp. on Thursday said it is recalling 900 EV1 electric cars and S-10 electric pickup trucks, about two-thirds of the electric vehicles it has produced since 1996, because of a charger port problem that could cause a fire. GM, the world's No. 1 automaker, is recalling 450 1997 Generation 1 EV1 cars, and 450 Chevrolet S-10 pickup trucks. The figures include all the electric pickup trucks it has built and slightly less than half of the total EV1 cars it has produced. Generation II EV1 cars are not affected. The automaker plans to fix the pickup trucks with modified charge ports. But because of the design of the EV1, GM does not currently have a way of repairing the car, which gained fame in 1996 as the first electric car sold on the mass-market. There have been 16 cases of charge ports returned because of a component failure that caused "thermal events," which GM said were too small to be considered fires. No injuries have been reported because of the problems, and GM said there have been no confirmed cases of property damage. GM began calling owners of EV1 cars Thursday morning. For the time being, owners will be offered free use of a rental vehicle through Enterprise, with GM paying the cost of gasoline. GM is trying to find out how many owners want to move into the approximately 500 Generation II cars that have been produced. But the company admitted it may have a shortage because all but 150 of those cars have been sold to new buyers. -- Greg Hanssen http://www.zefiro.com (949)-551-5833 --== Zefiro Acoustics: Pro S/PDIF & AES/EBU digital I/O for the PC ==-- Check out the EV1 Electric Car at ev1-club.power.net or www.gmev.com