2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV
This year drew an ordinary 58 complaints for a Chevrolet Bolt EV — the model's median is 59. What they were about is the unusual part: 25.9% of them mention turn, against 8.6% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 58 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 59 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 120 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- turn — 25.9% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the model's other years (3×).
- visibility — 8.6% of this year's complaints, against 0.3% across the model's other years (30.2×).
- safety risk — 8.6% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (4.5×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Headlights were brushed clear of snow prior to driving. While driving in snow conditions, the headlights became covered in snow and would not provide illumination to the road ahead. This put me at safety risk making road visibility extremely poor at night. Whi…
The steering has become harder to turn and will not return to center after turning a corner. When driving the steering wheel will stay in the position you have turned it to. I feel like this is dangerous and a safety risk especially at highway speeds. I have t…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V930000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 23V567000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V845000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Bolt EV was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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