Chevrolet Bolt EV
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Last verified September 13, 2026
💬 — ask a question or share feedback →GM's claim that the 2023 Bolt EV's battery-fire problem is fixed holds up -- NHTSA shows zero battery-fire recalls for this model year, though the car did get recalled for a separate, unrelated seat-belt-pretensioner fire risk and an air bag defect.
After the 2021 recall that made GM tell owners to park their Bolts outside due to battery fire risk, GM relaunched the 2022-2023 Bolt EV with what it called an all-new battery pack, an extended 8-year/100,000-mile battery warranty, and a roughly $6,000 price cut -- positioning it as the fire problem being fully solved with no compromises.
NHTSA's own recall database backs up the core claim: the 2023 Bolt EV has zero battery-fire recalls, unlike the 2017-2022 models that were recalled twice for exactly that. But the 2023 model year isn't recall-free -- it has 3 recalls, two of them for a *different* fire-adjacent defect: after a crash, the seat belt pretensioner's exhaust gas can ignite carpet fibers near the B-pillar (one of these recalls exists because an earlier repair under a prior recall number was done incorrectly). A third recall covers a missing perforation that can block the passenger air bag from deploying properly. NHTSA's complaint database shows 59 complaints filed against the 2023 Bolt EV -- a moderate number for a mass-market EV, not an outlier in either direction.
GM's central claim -- that the battery-fire defect which plagued the 2017-2022 Bolt is gone -- actually checks out against NHTSA's own recall data for the 2023 model year. That's a real, verifiable fix, not just marketing spin. The car isn't perfect (a separate, unrelated seat-belt-pretensioner fire risk and an air bag defect both got recalled), but neither rises to the scale of the original battery crisis, and the complaint count is unremarkable for the segment. Combined with the real price cut, this is one of the rarer cases where the comeback story mostly holds up.
- NHTSA recall database — Zero battery-fire recalls for the 2023 model year — the 3 recalls on file are unrelated (seat belt pretensioner carpet fires and an air bag defect).
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Did the 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EV have the same battery fire problem as the 2017-2022 models?
No. NHTSA's recall database shows zero battery-fire recalls for the 2023 model year, a genuine break from the 2017-2022 Bolt's two prior battery-fire recall campaigns.
Does the 2023 Bolt EV have any recalls at all?
Yes, 3: two related to a seat-belt-pretensioner defect that can ignite carpet fibers near the B-pillar after a crash, and one for a passenger air bag deployment defect.