Tuesday, December 6, 2011

GM and NHTSA hid Volt fire info for almost 6 months?


It's the Chicago way.

(AutoGuide)- Apparently, way back in June, General Motors heard about a Volt fire that happened three weeks after said vehicle was crash tested, yet it wasn’t until November that the company, nor NHTSA disclosed there was a potential problem, urging both dealers and customers to drain the battery pack immediately following an accident.

As a result the public relations nightmare surrounding Chevy’s halo vehicle appears to be deepening, though a good deal of the blame in this case also rests with NHTSA.
Joan Claybrook, a former administrator at NHTSA believes part of the reason for the delay was the “fragility of Volt sales.” Yet she also believes that “NHTSA could have put out a consumer alert, not to tell them [customers] for six months makes no sense to me.”

2 comments:

  1. Joan Claybrook shows where her true loyalties are. Had this occurred under a Republican administration the old warhorse Joan would have been out front castigating NHTSA along with Raph Nader. Now, under Obama? Just an exceedingly passive, "Makes no sense to me" comment.

    Another Liberal hypocrite.

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  2. Joan Claybrook shows where her true loyalties are. Had this occurred under a Republican administration the old warhorse Joan would have been out front castigating NHTSA along with Raph Nader. Now, under Obama? Just an exceedingly passive, "Makes no sense to me" comment.

    Another Liberal hypocrite.

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