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How many cars are we talking about here?

About 100k. It’s not a lot of cars, but the cost is almost $1B. Luckily GM hasn’t sold Bolts in volume.

Unfortunately, based on the defect causing this recall, I don’t believe the packs can be remanufactured/refurbished for reuse. Considering the storage potential of the impacted packs, this is somewhat tragic.

The article says they’ll be replacing battery modules. Usually a battery pack has several modules.

Might be infeasible to repair the modules, though.

They're replacing /all/ of the modules in every battery pack of every Chevy Bolt including the EUV variant, per their recall letters to dealers and customers.

Based on my limited knowledge of the severity of the anode defect, there is a possible use for grid storage, keeping the power draw requirements low, they should be fine. But More so interested in what is actually going to happen with all these packs... they definitely will show up on open market...

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