GM stops selling the Chevy Blazer EV to deal with ‘software quality issues’

In an announcement offered to The Verge, Chevrolet communications govt director Chad Lyons mentioned, “Our workforce is working shortly to roll out a repair, and homeowners might be contacted with additional data on easy methods to schedule their replace.” Chevrolet vice chairman Scott Bell mentioned, “We’re conscious {that a} restricted variety of prospects have skilled software-related high quality points with their Blazer EV. Buyer satisfaction is our precedence and as such, we’ll take a quick pause on new deliveries.” GM didn’t affirm what number of automobiles are affected, aside from saying it’s a “restricted” quantity.

Edmunds stories that two months after buying a 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV RS AWD for its long-term take a look at fleet, the SUV has been on the dealership for 2 weeks. With 23 fault codes on a diagnostic take a look at, they wrote that “What we bought again from the vendor was alarming: the only longest record of main faults we at Edmunds have ever seen on a brand new automobile.”

Issues went even worse for InsideEVs author Kevin Williams, whose weeklong take a look at ended after 28 hours. The automobile’s CarPlay- and Android Auto-free infotainment system went clean whereas he was driving, after which an try and cost the battery failed, producing a “Service Automobile Quickly” error message.

InsideEVs adopted up its preliminary report, noting homeowners of different Ultium-powered electrical automobiles from GM complaining of surprising and, to this point, hard-to-fix points with their vehicles.