Chevy offers loaner cars to Volt owners
Not that there's anything wrong with the Volt, but if, just saying, you should want to exchange your Volt for a loaner car while GM works on whatever is not wrong with it, they'll accommodate you.
Just because two Volts exploded following crash tests is, really, nothing to worry about. And just because, using the OnStar program, GM now sends out a team to drain the battery of any Volt that's been in a crash, is nothing to get excited about. And, certainly, nobody should fret about their house burning down while they're re-charging their Volt, just because Duke Power has sent out a warning letter.
In theory, the way these post-crash explosions take place is that the coolant in the lithium-ion battery cell leaked; causing heat to build up in the battery cell, which, when a tipping point is reached, results in an explosion. The resulting explosion, hypothetically, can not only destroy the Volt, it can destroy any car parked around it. Possibly, this explains why a crash-tested Volt and the cars parked around it were discovered exploded and destroyed. Or maybe it was lightening or terrorists. Really, it could have been due to anything or to nothing at all. So, GM is just simply allowing you the option of a loaner car, and this is not at all an admission that the Volt is in any way unsafe.
As to what will be the loaner car, we don't know. Maybe it will be a Chevy Malibu Hybrid. As to the tiny fact that the Malibu Hybrid retails for about half what a Volt goes for, not even considering the government subsidies for the Volt, well, maybe they'll lend you two Malibu Hybrids.
Source: WaPo
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